Hiding in the one place a hunter would never think to look.
This is either the smartest deer I’ve ever seen… or the dumbest. There’s really no middle ground here. As a deer, seeking shelter inside a ground blind could be categorized as a “bit risky.” For one, there’s a hidden-in-plain-sight element to it that should give the wild animal the upper hand. On the flip side, laying low inside a deer blind could lead to the fastest and most efficient deer hunt in history.
Deer are some of the most confusing creatures on the planet. Why do I say that? Well, deer hunters know this best. If you are up in a deer stand, or sitting in a blind, a deer can sniff you out or detect even the most minimal of movements. Saying they aren’t smart would be discrediting the species.
They’re actually very intelligent, and have incredible memory. If something feels off to them, even in the slightest, they’ll high-tail it out of the area and likely won’t ever return. And their heightened senses of smell, hearing and vision generally help them avoid being turned into summer sausage, or at the very least, dinner for another predator.
That being said… they also have a knack for walking right out in the middle of the road and getting hit by cars. Apparently the species as a whole hasn’t figured that out. I think comedian Ron White said it best in his bit about deer hunting. He figured out the fool proof way to hunt deer, and explained it like this:
“If you ever miss one, it’s because the bullet is moving too fast. Slow that bullet down to 55 miles per hour, put some headlights and a little horn on it (and) the deer will actually jump in front of the bullet.”
Yeah… Ron White nailed it there with that joke, as he typically does.
Based on this video below, it looks like the comedian could update his deer hunting material if he wanted to. The footage that’s now going viral online shows a deer hunter walking up to his ground blind and seeing that there’s some things out of place – including the blind itself. Upon further inspection, the guy realizes that there’s actually someone or something inside the hunting tent.
Could another hunter be trespassing and using the man’s blind? That’s probably where my mind would have gone at first. The hunter didn’t have a lot of time to try and get to the bottom of it, only because the culprit ended up revealing itself sooner rather than later. Just as the hunter had gotten up to the blind, the tent started running away.
Lo and behold, there was a deer that had bedded down inside the tent, and the hunter walking up spooked the animal, causing it to take off. The only problem was that it couldn’t get the tent off its back, so the blind briefly came along for the ride. It all made for quite the hilarious spectacle, and left the deer hunter laughing and uttering these three words in disbelief:
“Oh my God!”
Puts a whole new meaning to “Deer Blind” 🤣
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— Buckmasters Nation (@BmNation) February 2, 2025
