As you'll be hunting public land, how much hunting pressure do you expect there to be?
I've WT hunted wooded stands between ag fields here in MN most of my life. I don't do archery, but this is a shotgun/slug zone, so shots are typically under 50 yards anyway. I grew up ground hunting, and still prefer it. The #1 thing is picking a good spot to set up. As mentioned above, back cover is more important than front cover. Think about sillohuetting (not just against the sky, but agaist the open space beyond you) and getting snuck up on from behind. Slug hunting makes it easier than needing room to draw a bow, but I like to sit under trees (especially cedars), or on a small stool in tall grass. Sometimes you can break some branches to make a spot in a clump of bushes or the edge of a thicket of brambles. That can work well, but you run the risk of shaking the whole bush if you bump a branch.
With archery in the early season, deer will likely behave "naturally" (i.e., as all the shows and podcasts tell you they do), but as the season progresses in areas with strong hunting pressure, their patterns change. Under hunting pressure, deer feed at night and wait out the day bedded down. When trail cameras came out, they confirmed what we always knew anyway--the deer feed leisurely at night from an hour after you leave until an hour before you get there. They do seem to go for water in the mornings, but they'll head to cover eventually. You don't want to sit where they are headed, you want to be on the way there. They'll avoid good cover if someone is set up in there, or too close. The advice about edge zones above is very good.
For pre-season scouting, do not be careful about hiding your presence. Deer accustomed to having humans around are less skittish. They won't abandon a place because you've been there, they know humans don't stay long. After opener, you want them to notice the other hunters, but not you.
Once you have other hunters in your area, you need to account for them. If a hunter is set up on a movement route, such as an edge zone or established game trail, deer will follow the route until they detect/suspect the hunter, then take a detour around. Eventually they will get back to their original route. Sometimes you can find new/temporary funnel points between but "further down the road"/route from where other hunters are set up. I've probably had the best luck with this approach, but there is a lot of hunting pressure during slug season.
Under pressure, the best time tends to be late morning, after a lot of hunters have sat for the morning, but are now starting to head out for coffee/breakfast/beer. That usually pushes deer around a lot, and you want to be sitting "on the way out" when deer are getting away from that commotion. Once it settles down again later is a good time for your own break.
Don't be afraid to change spots if you haven't seen anything for a couple hours, just consider how your movement will affect anything that might have been in the area you didn't/couldn't see. It's better to be in a bad spot watching out-of-range deer moving than to be in a great spot that nothing is passing by. If you see deer you can't reach, while you watch them try to figure out where the best spot would have been, and what is affecting their movements. You can learn a lot of general info online, but it's hard to beat learning the details of a specific location. Of course pay attention to what might cause them to come your way, and be ready just in case.
Remember that to get a shot opportunity, something has to changing locations, ideally the deer.