RE: patterning deer
From your description, sounds like a deer hunter' s piece of heaven to me. Look for obvious bedding areas, water holes and crossings, rublines and scrapes. The last four will lead you to the bedding areas. I would look for and set up in obvious funnels surrounding these areas.
I hunt a property that has all of the deer' s favorites, beans, wheat, corn, clover, milo, acorns, paw-paws, and all the browse they could ever want. There is over 90 acres of river bottom timber, plus a major creek that feeds into the river. There is an old river channel that is dry most of the year from when the river changed it' s course, the deer use it to travel. Anyway you enter the property you are apt to run into deer. I have hunted it 14 years, and have found that no matter how many hours of scouting I put into it, the deer show up where I am not at.
Thats why they call it hunting. Appreciate it, embrace it and protect it.