Always carry your bow or gun while doing in season scouting! By not doing so cost me a couple of nice opportunities in the past and it cost my son a nice 8 pt. buck just two weeks ago. He came along while I moved a stand. I neglected to remind him to bring his bow along(left mine at the truck too). While climbing the tree to remove the hangon, first two does and then later on a nice 8 pt. stopped 20 yards away not knowing either of us were there. It would have been like shooting at a 3D target.