Summer scouting

[Bowtechassassin]

How do you go about scouting a new property that you have no idea about in the summer time. Do you just go in and start looking for sign from the previous season or do you glass fields looking for bucks then work backwards once your find them.

[justdirtyfun]

Well the starting point for me is map data.
Google Earth with historical date tab
Cal topo
Hillmap.com

Then think through your plans for season. Are you going to be hunting multiple properties?
Bow season from opening day until close?
Maybe gun hunt during rut?

What do you NEED from this place? What can it offer you?
How many acres with how many access points? What parts are ugly enough that others don't disturb?
If you are somewhat new to Beast hunting style, do yourself a favor this summer.
Buy Hunting Beast bedding videos that best match your area. Better than stomping around on new ground with minimal gain. They are a GREAT resource not a gimmick hunting show.

[Bowtechassassin]

2 years beast style hunting. Plan is early season in a new state and never hunted there. I know internet scouting is the first step I'm asking about after that. Cause sometimes maps and reality are different. That's what I ran into yesterday when I went scouting that sparked the question.

[Ghost Hunter]

I look at topos, maps and get thought on where I'm going. My plans my totally change when I get in there. If I was going in this time year sooner better. Just don't wait till September to do it.

[brancher147]

I’m checking suspected bedding for rut or current sign. Walking it looking at all sign and tracks and trails. And run cameras but you never know if or when deer will move around in fall and leave the property. I don’t do any glassing because all I hunt is mostly timber and I just don’t have time.

[szwampdonkey]

I’m all done usually by now. But if i want to just check out something new or just take a walk with a purpose i’ll walk the perimeter/edges of suspected bedding, cattail swamps, etc. You’ll still see rubs either from last year or the last several years telling you there were bucks using the area in the fall.

Everything else falls into, “i should speed scout this next fall and throw a sit at it” this time of year once it gets thick and nasty and the poison ivy and sumac is in its prime. I mean, i’m always really thinking where are they, or were they, when i can kill them in the fall i really don’t put much into where they are and what they’re doing now.

I DO however pay attention to which crops are being put in around my hunting spots as some kill spots i have are great when the neighboring farmer puts in beans, other spots are hot when corn is within a mile of the public swamp bedding i hunt, etc. It’s like i just like to keep tabs on things in the summer from afar with thoughts like, “oh man that one tree i like is going to be hot next fall” and i make mental notes.