I grew up in Dunn County, between Hudson and Eau Claire. Pretty decent bucks lurking around. I’d say Halloween/Nov 1 is when I’ve always killed my best bucks. My property never seems to hold the real mature bucks. They always shift off my property and go 1 mile north. We call it the dink factory. Killed 1 at 150 and a couple around 140’s.
Look into MFL property. People will put their land into Management Forest Land for tax breaks. Some opt to keep it private others go for the Mack daddy tax break and go public. Finding those 20, 40 acre parcels between some big farmers with water, good cover and creeks would be ideal. I’ve always wants to dedicate a couple of weeks to hunt like this but never do. I always end up in the same stands on my same property seeing the same deer, complaining about the same neighbors.