My experience with this unit is mostly from bird hunting, I did fill an antlerless tag there back in '03, but that's not much help for the post rut big buck archers.
I'd say focus on areas like the N. Potholes where there are better chances of having an encounter more conducive to archery success. There is a huge amount of willow forest that has grown up out there and one could even hang a treestand from some of them. Also the dunes in that area still have some elevation so you could get up and glass. Access is via the N. Potholes / Job Corp dike road.
Other areas I've seen deer in this time of year are the tall sage areas off the Harris Lakes (the lower end of Winchester ww about a mile before it dumps into the reservoir. You can also access the back side of the state park herd that hangs out in there. As said by previous poster, they are not much of a patternable deer this time of year.
To Thomas, the farmers are tough to approach because they get hounded all the time by bird hunters. Also most of the farmland feeding is going to occur at night and the public areas abut the fields anyway and that's where they're going to be headed for shooting hours bed time anyway. Just find places away from the shotguns and you should be fine...though the deer are prbably pretty used to shotguns out there.
ARchery in this unit would be much tougher than any of the gun hunts. Hope you drill a nice one.
