I cut my eye teeth hunting Whitetails in Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. You can generally do a fair job of patterning these animals. Patterning here in Washington State the patterns are much different however, they still reside mainly in a very small slice of territory. I suspect that they migrate somewhat as the mountain weather worstens.

If the truth be told I strongly believe that within each general geographic area, deer and elk will behave differently and present their own challenges.