RE: Your Hunt to Scout ratio?
I do the majority of my scouting during the winter/spring while shed and turkey hunting. Everything is so much easier to see at the time. You get a good idea of what has happened but not necessarily what will happen. The spring scouting will normally give you a good idea of the year to come, but you still have to do some in season scouting to keep up with everything like rotating ag fields and mast production.