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Animals have to eat, and they have to drink.
In your area, figure out which is more scarce, and find it.
Here it's water; in NY it's likely the food.
Figure out where they're eating. If there isn't any nuts in your area, then find another area. Look for crops fields, and other food sources that the deer prefer.
Learn to recognise the trees the produce nuts that deer enjoy. Look for apple orchards, or anything else they might want to eat. Once you find a food source, circle it and find the trails leading to and from them.
If you don't have permission to hunt near the field, then focus on surrounding areas where deer might bed down and/or travel through on their way to a bedding area. Keep looking 'till you find a place you can hunt, and that also has what the deer need to survive.
And once you find such an area, check it before you hunt next year to be sure it's still a place where deer like to live.
As mentioned above, deer are creatures of habit. I've seen trails leading to water that were going through an open field. If you can find a place where two or more busy trails intersect, consider it hunter's gold.
And like any other gold, you'll have to do some hunting to find it.
It isn't usually easy to succeed at deer hunting (or any other), and those who succeed regularly usually put a lot of effort into it.
And after all, it makes that deer roast taste all that much better when you get it.
Daryl
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