This is how they survive

[NYBowhunter]

I have seen this so many times, they bed up in briars and alders right next to the road. Not 20 yards off the road, facing the road. Anything coming from their back end would be heard a mile away through that thick stuff. This was right down the road from my cabin, look closely will see 2 does. I stopped, backed up my car , opened my widow and snapped a picture and they didnt budge. Unfortunately its that time of the year when all the desperate bastard road hunters are all over the place. While your in the woods they are there...lol

[Zag]

Yep, this was takin from my truck window on the Sunday of the gun opener, samething

[NYBowhunter]

4 minutes ago, zag said:

Yep, this was takin from my truck window on the Sunday of the gun opener, samething

Smart critters for sure!!!!!

[Doc]

It doesn't work for them all the time. I remember one pretty good sized buck that thought he was well camouflaged in our thicket as I walked down the driveway to get the mail. I guess because it was the first snowfall of the season, he didn't realize how perfectly silhouetted he was against the white snow. At 40 yards, he never got out of his bed until I gutted and dragged him out. 1,000 foot driveway through a swampy ticket.....I never leave my gun behind during season when I walk down for the mail ..... lol.

[vizslas]

They do the same thing at my moms house. She lives on an limited access road.  they come from the fields through the swamp and bed down in the pines near the road in the front yard.And if not they go through the yard into the apples and hang out by the main road... super smart critters. Oh look there they are in the neighbors yard at 10 am just snacking away.

[G-Man]

My one neighbor has .6 of an acre but the deer lie right in her yard.. we joke if she'd let us put out guns over the hood of her car and take a shot.. they lie there all day and dont move till after legal shooting light.  They don't need much to make it thru huntinh season.

[NFA-ADK]

In suburban area's I do notice they love to hang by houses especially thick cover.  Opening day I saw 3 doe bedded 40 yards from the stand after letting them walk at 8am I found 2 more doe in between 2 houses where the brush is so thick it would be impossible to even get a shot off at 10 yards.  Both area's where thick and had escape routes for each.  It is amazing how much they blend in that thick cover, except when snow is present.

[The_Real_TCIII]

Theres a house up the road from me where youll always see a group of monster toms hanging in the bare grass where his furnace vents. Nature finds a way lol