I prefer to do my own scouting. Most of my hunting spots are an hour drive or so. I scout as I hunt and file away info for the following year. My public land spots don't typically change from year to year so I have a pretty good handle on where to find birds. Now the leases I hunt are owned by timber companies so the habitat tends to change drastically from one year to the next. I don't hunt any farms or private ground so to speak. Every bird I have to hunt can potentially be hunted by several hundred others. So keeping up with the shift of birds due to pressure, breeding and food preferences as well as timbering activities keeps me busy. I feel as long as I am in earshot of a bird at daylight then I am fine. Over the course of a year or two I fine tune things and get a lot tighter on them on the roost. In all reality tho I may scout 3-4 days a year before season and that's mainly prospecting brand new ground to possibly start hunting in the future depending on what I find.
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