Northern Arizona Deer . I have the early hunt and my wife has the late rut hunt. Our area is a transition area where the deer move north off the Kaibab in winter, and south off the Paunsaugunt in Utah meeting in the winter grounds on the border. We scouted over Labor day for 4 days and saw no deer at all, and that was to be expected we really weren't to serious about actually seeing deer but rather looking for water, terrain, honey hole's, roads, access, etc. Lots of sage brush to the north and really deep canyons to the south and west.