Behind my house here in NC, they've started grading and knocking down trees to start a housing development. I think before most of everything is destroyed I could sit in the clearings and kill a nice buck. I'm really starting to see more bucks, and big bucks especially at night around my house, so the chasing seems to be sneaking up quickly. I even had a buck with a doe come accross the yard sometime in the last few days (saw the tracks in the wet yard). The guys who are grading even saw a nice deer walk about 50yds from the house yesterday morning at 7:30. All these deer are coming right out of where they are doing all the work!!!.

I just feel it would be a good combination to kill a nice deer with the curiosity of the deerchecking out what's going on, along with the rut approaching. What do all you guys think?