When do you usually do your scouting for deer season?

[Geno C]

I sometimes scout in febuary/march for alittle bit and then do some scouting and monitoring starting spring. Just curious when others start their scouting regament...

[skyzmine]

I will put my cam's back up in late spring and go from there.

[G-Man]

I never stop.... didn't know you could 

[fasteddie]

I never stop.... didn't know you could 

I put up a trail cam a couple weeks ago in Geneseo . I hope I get some pics . Probably won't get to it for another week or so ......

[hang fyre]

I try to walk around feb/ march depending on snow depth.  right after snow melt is optimal because u can still see scrapes and rub lines before everything starts growing.

[nyantler]

While I'm hunting that day..lol

[Geno C]

I never stop.... didn't know you could 

the proof is in your pudding with the bucks you kill lol

[Daveboone]

I am out in my deer woods year round, snow shoeing when the snow is too deep to walk. The Winona Forest Association canceled their winter fun day yesterday due to the cold and snow, but I was still out up there.

[Geno C]

going to get out soon and scope out a few places i hunted last season and try to iron out a nice tree for a climber...

[Doc]

Most of my scouting that is done directly for stand locations is done carefully in-season. That scouting is primarily done for bow hunting, and the results of that bowseason provides the intel for the gun season. So pre-bowseason and in-bowseason scouting are generally aimed at rut sign, feeding activity and locating currently used trails and timing patterns for stand placement. These pieces of info help to create a current picture of deer patterns.

There is a second kind of scouting that goes on year-around. That is simply observations aimed at determining the size and content of the local herd. That is primarily for satisfaction of curiosity more than gathering any real useful hunting info for the upcoming season. Throughout the year, feed sources, cover, fawning and rutting behavior keep patterns in a constant state of change, and most of any non-fall info that I may discover is sure to change dramatically with the different phases of the rut, dropping of the leaves and the coming of mast crops, etc.  So info gathered in the late winter and spring and early summer serve only to satisfy curiosity, and perhaps supply a bit of historical info about the past season (old scrapes, rubs, etc.).

[TH41]

Anytime I'm i the woods through out the year.