Its hard to do it from a distance in very many places where I live, but I have one exception, a farm that I lease has a large bottom hayfield with a gravel road on one ridge above the field and a huge ridge covered with tall yellow (switchgrass?) and blackberry bushes on the other side. The ridge is about a half mile from the road and you cant see deer from the road, but with a good spotting scope I can see them pretty good and can tell where they are traveling through all that brush, seen some real dandies that way.