when do you start scouting

I start about 6-8 weeks before my quota permit. Setting a few cameras in busy areas and slowly circling the drain. The deer do not tolerate human scent and dont come back once they smell it the 2nd time.

Not near as good as the guys who grew up hunting down here but have seen deer on the last 3 hunts ive drawn. Even got a small buck last yr ML.

Hoping to continue on the trend.

I'm only serious about turkey.  Have cameras running year around on private. If drawn for a quota hunt will start after deer and small game seasons end.

I scout midweek when the wma's are empty a week before the hunt starts. I usually follow ribbon trails and check sd cards I find in the woods. these new cell cameras make it tough

gonna fish everglades city in the morning by noon gonna be at holeyland putting out a couple cams there in old reliable spots then one out in rotenburger where i know a old giant 6 point hangs out well last year he was a 6 point looked like he was missing one of his hooves last year he would leave just a hole on right side when following his track in the mud. hope he,s still alive. dont know what quota hunts i might get so not scouting any other areas yet.

     its close to home      i stay off the main buggy or four wheeler trails there full of mud and holes      i like easy walking     first thing i look for when putting up my stand is will i be in the shade    and plenty of water    i know people say dont freeze water bottles but i do    i buy a 24 pack and dump in my freezer    4 or 5 frozen bottles go in bottom of backpack as well as my large camel back bottle every hunt     thats for a half day        i got heat stroke 20 plus years ago if my 12 year old son wasnt with me dont know what would have happened       sent him back to the truck   bout 3/4 mile with empty backpack and told him fill it with water and gatoraid we had in cooler    had to lay in the shade after he returned hour later for 4 or 5 hours before i felt good enough to walk out wearing nothing but my boxers.   this was 2 weeks before the hunt and i was putting out a ladder stand    wearing jeans, cowboy boots and a tshirt     ever since that day i go overboard on hydration.             

I do the same with water and shade. Regardless, I'm not busting a gut or dropping a nut for a deer anymore. I don't mind working for it, but I'm gonna work smarter, not harder.

All both of em?  I never drank water and worked in my Dads orange groves during the summer.

I know the 9 Thousand acres behind my house real well and don,t usually scout much anymore.
This year they Clear cut most of it so i'll be looking around real soon.
The swamps and Hammocks are all still there so all I 'll really do is wait 2 days after a hard rain and drive the Dim roads real slow to check local movement..
The 2 best Bucks I shot last year were within 500 yards of my house.

          yea the rut has been in july last couple years        was out saturday afternoon       checked 1 spot in area 3    couple nice rubs    put out a cam.      checked     2 spots in holeyland one area was littered with rubs as usual but other area only found 1 fresh rub but lotta game trails and tracks where there was no water,    went to check on the 3 hooved big boy in rotenburg      found some huge tracks and buck rubs and 2 scrapes     dont worry i chopped down the scrub trees he was destroying with a machete so road scouters wont see them.     not sure if hes the same buck thats been in that area last few years but judging by size of tracks and rubs gotta be a nice one       camera left there as well.        since its the only south early season wma left without needing a quota i hope they at least let us bow hunt it.    exact location not ready to be burned yet     waiting on quota results.       only seen 3 deer but it was between 1 and 4 pm   194 degrees out.