If the weather's like it's been recently (mild), and they aren't rutting yet, they are going to feed by night, bed down in the cooler timber on warm days, in the reprod sometimes. I like to glass a patch of reprod , look into the little open patches-you can sometimes pick up the flick of a tail or an ear. Midday hunting requires patience.
No timber hunting for this guy when the wind is really blowing! They might never find you...