RE: Scouting.....Something often overlooked (I'd bet)
Here's the kicker huntingson.....
The landowners whose land I hunt don't have ANY crops. They just have land that abuts the deer's bedding areas. It really matters not to me who has standing crops........they're ALL (deer) coming back "home". Standing corn actually HURTS me. Deer will bed in the corn......and not come "home". I like it when ALL the corn gets cut down......and the earlier the better.
They haven't planted the beans, yet......but they've sprayed the fields. It's not hard to tell what's going where (the corn is already planted).