Pope county is pretty loaded with forrest area just by looking at google maps you can see that north of Golconda and east and west of Eddyville is really wooded my guess is that is a dense area to look at. Where are you traveling from? That would be a area to concentrate on for sure. Hopefully the maps you get will narrow down a area you can concentrate on.
Right now the place should be getting quite a bit of bowhunting done since the rut should not be too far off, I think this year it will fall just before shotgun season comes in.