I scout sometimes after a morning hunt. When I get down I drop off my stand and take a long slow walk in the woods looking for any sign. A friend of mine and I did just this yesterday. He took me to a spot that had been productive opening day bow but we both didn't see a thing. We started from where we walked in from our trucks and walked a trail along a ridgeline. It was barely wide enough to walk because the ridge was so steep and there was swamp on the other. We saw sign along the way and when it came out there were enormous amounts of tracks crisscrossing when area opened up. We followed it out and it dumped to a soybean field that had not been cut. At the very edge of the field was a few rubs. We left. I hunted there that night and sure enough a huge doe walked right out the trail we walked just a few hours prior and right under my stand.

Had we not taken the time to figure out where the deer had moved we would not have discovered a new little afternoon spot to hunt.