Scouting only dirupts the bird IMO unless you are doing it from a road or somethign by spotting scope..... I never scout cuz our birds use the same strutting areas every year and all I do is go out and find em the night before on roost. Then I set up between where they are roosted and where I think they want to go (hen roosting areas or strutting areas/on the edge of it) depending on what part of the season we are in. If thetoms are locked up with hens I get between them and the hens on roost. If the toms are really looking I go straight for the strutting areas cuz they will show up real fast comin off of roost. WCL