Scouting time

  Well guys its time for this guy to start scouting for the Fall. Start  it about now each year and its great. Winter sign is still there to some degree as well as old scrapes.
Here  we CAN make simple  blinds and its time to get in and see if any lasted from last year and do a bit of drop fall structure work to the better spots. They can be piled around with old leaves now and green from later fallen trees can be used for overhead cover as the season nears.
   Destroy the old ones that didnt work anymore as patterns change and try and predict the seasons future mast crop to predict new spots.
    Generally make one or two a year unless I get new property to hunt which means a whole new learning curve in a new spot. The  'blinds' are more of a simple few sticks leaned on something with enough leaves or scrub to just break my outline,later the overhead kinda covers your head movement. Find it best sometimes to setup under young evergreen or beech cause the leaves stay longer on young beech. Not a lotta cover- just enough to help.
   Love to still hunt but when your in places with pressure sometimes you just spook already spooked Deer that dont return till VERY late season if at all. So ya gotta sit sometimes.
  Also helps a great deal in those places that ALWAYS seem to have a buck nosing around- Gotta havem in early in my opinion and then sit in em a few times to see if is was the right spot- several times before the season.
  Last two years never had to build anything, sometimes the best Blinds are made when mother nature drops a nice big tree right in the spot ya like- Got a great 8 this past out of one in a mess of dropped Oak that had a great natural blind in it. Gotta get in early and find that stuff.
   A trail cam would get stolen round here so gotta do it the old fashioned way.

OA thats exactly why I gotta get out & see for myself. No trail cam means ya gotta use your eyes. Dont like to sit right in the  honey spot early more like a distance away where I can still see it. No sense in leaving more scent than needed or to have to be close enough for a shot when out early.
That cam stuff has GOT to help with the photo and time of day on it. Man ,talk about being able to pattern.
The only thing missing in our tool bag seems to be a DOE in Esterus meter so we can really find where Bucky is.
 During the Rut when they arent where they are supposed to be ya know what they are doin but not always exactly where.

OA
What have you done to keep the cameras from being stolen? If I ever did it I would be very tempted to have one down low for game and another up high watching the first for my viewing pleasure.
  Have had to stop putting out commercial stands cause  they are all gone. By contrast my 2 in upstate Ny have never been touched in 3 yrs.
   Urban Deer are plentiful and can get big but so can the 'issues'.

Got it- love the idea--thanks