When I lived in the far north Canadian bush I did all the livestock protection and hunting from the kitchen window that overlooked the paddocks and barns near the house.. Too many times I came out of the far barn, outhouse or other building to find some critter I didn't want to meet that close coming around the side of the building..
I went a couple kilometers from home a couple times to help a neighbor find a nuisance bear that had caused damage for them. Bears causing damage somewhere in the neighborhood seemed an annual event some time from the time they came out of their dens until they denned up again.. There were neighbors at the end of our road that didn't get electricity until the mid 1990s..