This might sound alittle strange, but i have always had success hunting escape routes on heavy hunted public land. I've found the best way to locate escape routes, is to put on drives during the off-season and use standers to locate the routes the deer are taking when pushed. Most of these deer are using the same bedding areas year around, so when the season rolls around- we don't scout for gun season, we go set up on the same routes every year and it always leads to a bunch of dead deer when other hunters start pushing them.