Nobody, your right we all have to deal with the unexpected but what direct post season scouting does is lets you know where them deer like to hang in the fall and once you know those spots you can apply them to other terrain. If your scouting deer directly on summer patterns it becomes mooted come fall anyway, as I mentioned the bachelor group thing makes for a dispersement of the male deer. Not to mention deer usually have a good choice of food sources and even water during spring and summer. Babies are done sucking and groups of does start to hang vs off tending and teaching the young solo. Really within a matter of a month things start evolving and changing in the deer world, where I start it sept for early bow is far from where I am in October and even further than where I will be come November and the rut.

I certainly don't stop scouting I just scout with a spotting scope or as season progresses with a bow or gun. The point we are making is limit your pressence, I don't stand hunt but when I did my stands where placed for archery a month prior to season and I never ventured in after that timeframe until actually hunting. IMO the best scouting is actually done while your hunting, that is when you find this years marks and can start formulating a plan. Experience from previous years & scouting will help you in locating or interpreting the sign for best placement of your time or stand.

Best of luck for 2004.