My first year hunting three years ago I had four does come right up to me. The small lead doe sniffed the end of my gun barrel. This year bowhuunting the closest buck was a four point that came up to about 10 feet. I could see the drool hanging from his lip. The closest doe came to about 10 feet also. I called her in by making a bleating sound with my mouth. She never knew I was there...

i got so close to a 4 point this year i could piss on him.


go deep hunt hard.

i have touched a fawn before, tried to pick it up but it kicked free and swelled up my knee bit. we were coming down my road in the rain and i saw a fawn running circles on the dam of the lake and then just drop. Well i put on some gloves and got ready to go catch it. I snuck over there and got within inches of it. it was balled up like a flattened out basketball. I lunged at it, got ahold of it, tried to stnad up and get a better grip on it before it kicked me in the face. After about 5 near groin misses i dropped it and it smoked my knee. Amazing how those tiny little things can kick. It hit the ground on all 4 feet, jumped a couple steps and stopped. i grabbed some grass in my hand and tried to feed it(it was probably too young for grass i guess but it would have felt weird sticking my nipple out to it.....) it sniffed the grass and then trotted off. this was the day after a BAD storm, im guessing the fawn got seperated from its momma in the storm. Man it owuld have been awesome to have a pet deer.

I was walking my uncle to his stand in the darkness early one morning. My uncle had his flashlight out and was in the lead when he noticed two sets of eyes just 5 yards away. He stopped and kept the light on them as I got next to him. We just stood still holding the light on them as the two does started to walk towards us. The bigger doe stopped about 3 feet away but the smaller one walked right up to the flash light until it hit her nose. Then in a FLASH those deer were gone! I think the little one didnt really know how far away the light was and didnt expect something to hit its nose. We still talk about that day.

I had a buck standing directly under my low platform (I' m only up 8 ft in that one - I could have jumped on his back !) He finally took a leap backward and gave me a broadside shot ..... I got him, but probably waited 3 minutes for him to give me the shot.

I touched a button buck last year!!
Most bizzare thing I' ll ever see in the woods. My buddy and I are walking down a trail to move a treestand. We are in everyday clothes and probably stink to high heaven. We pop into a little swail field and look up and a deer is heading for the trail. Only about 30 yards away. We both stop and kinda lean against a couple of trees on the edge of the trail. Make a long story short he finally is right next to us, I mean about 1 foot and he stops. He had to know we were humans. I don' t understand what happened at all. Maybe someones pet?? Anyway, I look at my buddy and he looks at me and we shrug our shoulders. I knew what he was thinking and likewise. So we reached out and pet the deer!!!!! Unbelievable. I would never believe this if it didnt' happen to me. The deer never bolted away. Just kinda hopped about 20 yards then started walking again after we touched it.

I had a mule deer 3 years ago get so close (and turn and look the other way) that I kicked at her, grazing her side. She kinda grunted in surprise and got the hell out of there.

I' m certain she thought she was caught, right then and there. Really a cool encounter.

2 yards in front of my treestand. Happened last weekend. Whacked her at 12 yards.

Well, I didn' t really get close to it, it got close to me. Like 3 feet away, both of us on the ground. Little button buck ran up to me sliding to a stop and I' m sitting there relaxing and smoking a cigarette. My bow and already dead deer were about 10 feet away.

Took my 9 yr. old stepson turkey hunting for the first time last spring. We set-up in the edge of a field and watched three deer feed right towards us. One of the does got within 5 ft. of us before I scared it off...didn' t want it to step on us!

The kid thought it was the coolest thing in the world...was a new experience for both of us.