RE: Scouting
If you are hunting in a heavy pressure situation try the following..
1. Once you found a serious deer trail, tie a black thread across the trail,
check it in a few hour . If it's broken it could be a day time trail. Deer also leave lots of tracks which could be their night time route. I was in the service and could only scout one day. It paid off.
2. Deer don't seem to travel alot in the day time, so their going to bed down where it;s heavy cover and water close by; either marshy, swampy or thick shrubs near a quiet stream. I've shot all my deer in this situation.
3. When you are finding scrapes, dropplings and rubs too, it sounds like a good place unless another hunter has also found your place.
In that case your better off to have about 2 or 3 spots.
Chuck