I’m in a close-in ATL suburb. A couple months ago, I was outside in the driveway, about 4 in the afternoon, daylight, not dusk, and look across the front of the house to the opposite corner, and there’s a really good looking 12 point buck looking at me from 75’-80’ away. We looked at each other for a few seconds, then he wandered off between the houses to the back yards.
Mind you, there’s a solid 20 miles of suburbs past me.
Happens a lot in Roswell off Holcomb Bridge. There are sone monsters back there. The Chattahoochee runs right through there. They’re what I call domesticated deer. Now if I lived in Horseshoe Bend, an HOA community and I don’t do HOA communities, there would be dead deer during hunting season. It’s bow only in my county as well as Fulton county but plenty of deer to fill freezers.
I have acreage that is about 5 miles from the sticks. The deer bed down in a pine stand to the right of my house every night. I feed them good protein and corn. Will plant a field this year too. There was one monster this year but he got hit by a car in the main road of my property. I hunted him one day this season. I’ve got 700 acres in South GA that I lease with a couple business partners. We trophy hunt there and it’s not a high fence property. I pulled a really good 9 and a 10 that I should have let walk another year over the course of two weeks. Freezer is full this year. Last year not so much.