I've seen where they've been but not where they are. And a couple 300 pound hogs.

Scouting, haven't done any. I've been chasing these critters for close to 50 years. If I can't walk in the woods a week or two before the season(or the day of the hunt) and find enough sign to hang a strategic stand I better quit. I may take a drive once in a while and glass some deer, but more often than not it's NOT where I hunt. I go to NY 3-5 times a year. I'll spend a day or two floundering and then try to pin something down. I have "favorite spots" but they're all subject to change and quite often do. I see NO valid reason for a bunch of heavy scouting in June and July or even early August when my seasons start in mid Sept here and Oct 1 in NY. Ialso go mid Oct to NY.I go up again in November. Every trip is different as far as food, rut cycle etc. Nothing I do now is as valid as taking the time to drive a perimeter, check some bottlenecks, fields, acorns, beech nuts, apple tree or whatever at the time of the hunt. I can't be making special scouting trips to NY. I just go up when the time comes and do some serious hunting. Around here I pretty much have just gotten into the practice of letting everyone pick their spots and my old spots and then I try to figure out where the deer will go when they spook them.[8D] One of them is a lot more fun than watching a deer for 3 months, everyday and then have him killed by a car the night before the season opens. I had that happen once years ago. I watch 5 bucks all summer, every night. The night before the season opened the largest, a massive 12 point was killed 100 yards from my stand on the road. I killed the 10 point opening morning. One 8 point we found shot in a field before any gun season opened. The other 8 disappeared. The 6 point went through a school teachers window and crippled her for life. Nope, don't need all that scouting.

Heard that...and chiggers too. I'm still itching from those darn things.[:@] Sucks they like to go under skin tight clothing.

Poison Ivey[:@][:@][:@]

that 105 degrees is entirely too hot to be doing anything other than laying in the pool or sitting in front of the a/c.

That no matter how much I sweat in 105 degree heat it is not enough to break the drought.

hmm myscouting.....a few bears and alot of deer in and out of the cornfield.