I JUST got into it this year so I'm rather ignorant to their patterns but I do know that there is some form of deer season all the way from about the second week of November to the end of January. Guys are still killing them left and right here and this is the last week of rifle season so you should have a chance, but I don't know about the bow. I believe sunday starts another muzzleloader season though so they might be calmed down some then.