Jeff, ive thought about that VERY thing too many times.

how can an animal that weighs over 100lbs and walk on 4 legs "appear" out of nowhere on a dry forest floor, covered in DRY leaves and go unnoticed until its practically underneath of you??

how can you WALK right by the same animal while its bedded and not even notice it??

Monday me and 2 other people were walking a trail talking as we made our way from the fields to the woods to put on a drive...laughing, talking, and walking. the 1 guy stopped and backed up 10 yards...said "come here...i think theres one laying here" me and the girl backed up 10yds, looked, sure enough, a perfectly healthy deer laid there..we were ALL looking in there for deer and didnt notice it...we know deer often lay in there and were looking hard...we all said it was a log...till it got up and bolted. how that guy noticed it is beyond me...he said he thought it was a log as well, but thought he caught movement..thats why he backed up. it was hardly brushed in...it was just laying under a crab apple tree...let us walk and talk right by it...

mannnnnny times i have jumped them from places you would glance at and say "nope! cant be a deer in there!" dad and i jumped a nice buck one rifle season walking back to camp one morning in a blueberry field...stuff aint higher than your knees with a few shrubs here and there...he jumped up not 10yards infront of us out of nowhere...

"if its big enough to hide a rabbit, it will hide a deer" nothing is too small to hide a deer...youd think a brown blob would stand out like a sore thumb...when in reality, they got some pretty awesome camo....exspecially the fawns!

amazing animals for sure...