I usually start around this time or late October. I typically look for existing scrapes, and make mock ones about 50 to 100 yards away. If ones close to my stand, I'll make one on the opposite side of my stand. I use homemade lure. I don't believe in Tinks, code blue, yatta yatta. If you dot see existing stapes. I make em on feild edges where there are nice licking limbs hanging down. That or logging roads, and trail crossings. I like to see a few before I start making them to. And I don't overdue it. Maybe 2-3 per property. Tops.