RE: Your Hunt to Scout ratio?
I most definitely believe in-season scouting helps me for the following year. It has helped me score on deer the following year just by seeing their patterns the year before. Not talking about a specific deer, but more of a general pattern. But I literally need to learn the physial lay-out of the military base I hunt, because it is so big and one never knows what areas they will have open from year to year. It is an endless scouting adventure.