I scout, but probably not as much as most do. I live a little far from my main hunting spot, but I have also been hunting it for 20+ years. There’s not much more I can gain scouting, that I can’t gain in a night or two of “observation” hunting. If the woods change (logging/storm damage) I will check it out and go from there. My other hunting spots I just check out and learn when I first got them. Then I kind of keep tabs on them and adjust as the season goes.

I do a lot of scouting in spring turkey and during boring weekends in the late winter.