My best advice if you have time is go 5 days before the rifle hunt, take your bow and cover ground. Find your buck and try to kill it, if you don’t get it done with a bow then be on him at first light when the rifle season opens.. if you haven’t found a shooter by the time rifle season starts just go home and come back the last week of the hunt. Tough to do with all the travel, but that’s my approach.
