look for bedding areas, thicker areas low brush or tall grass. find your nearest water sources and food sources. once you have these places found. look for travle routes from one to the other. drainage ditches are really good places for bucks to pass through, along with crick bottoms and field edges. If your going shed hunting in the next couple of months look arround for these things. Then in the summer check them out only once really good. pick some spots to put up stands and do the clearing for shooting lanes all in the same day if you can then stay out till hunting season. you can scout all year arround but the more your in the wood the more deer your pushing out.