Was out hunting my sub 100 acre ranchito in SW Young county this prior weekend and started pondering this question. Yesterday morning while hunting the rear setup of my place and seeing nothing, the front setup had a nice management buck and friends showing up, none of which made their way back to me. Candidly, I prefer hunting the rear side of the property, farther away from FM roadway, slightly heavier cover, away from my trailer, etc.etc., however starting to think much of that makes little to no difference to the deer traversing my place. What say THF??

And before we all go there, no I do not believe the deer are overly patterning me. Don't go out there enough for that, don't make much if any ruckus while out there, basically walk to and from setups only. No ATV cruising around. Please dig deeper on this than "patterning"

Lots of blinds set up within 200 yards of IH10.

In Boerne at dark I see axis feeding under the lights from the parking lot at Champion High School with constant traffic 150 yards away.

That being said, no matter how remote the property, and maybe even more so if remote - I wouldn't set up any blind that's visible from a public roadway.

Several years ago one of my best blinds was set up on the fence line with a county road running next to it.

I hunt 2 small properties with one blind each. Because of the property configuration, both blinds can be seen from the roadway under certain conditions, however the feeder pens cannot be seen. Deer don’t care. The smaller 70ish acre property has produced the best bucks.

We have 2 blinds 50 yards from road that tanker trucks use to haul sour water from frac wells, sounds like a freeway at times. We kill deer there consistently; they don't pay any attention to the trucks or any other traffic.

Bar ditch sees lots of deer after dark and they have to be somewhere before dark. Usually more to eat and I have seen deer bed on opposite side of road, cross road and come to feeders within 100 yards of road plus, I like to hunt where the deer are. If they are closest to the road and house, I think I would hunt there. Who knows, after a couple of days, they may decide to move to the back of your property.

I have owned 133 acres of heavily wooded land in Montague County for about 40 years. Not sure I know the answer to your question. Some years I’m butt deep in deer and other years not so much.

I started to see more deer when I ignored the permanent blinds the previous owner set up and scouted my property for deer trails. I started setting up closer to the deer trails in a pop up blind. Those pop up blinds work really well. I’ve had bucks walk right by me at 10 yards and didn’t know I was there.

I think consistency is one of the keys and when they consistently hear vehicles, dogs, doors, tractors etc. they get used to them. Also, the consistent feeders, relative safety, other deer and animals that helps. The thing I'm not sure about is hunting pressure on all the bordering sides of small properties. I hunt a sub-100-acre property and in 2023 had deer on camera at night but didn't see one during a hunt until the last weekend of the season. This year totally different in 6 sits I've only had one sit where I didn't see anything.