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My quite similar experience included mirthful onlookers. Hilarity ensued.

Too cute to shoot.
Good strategy.

I remember reading a story long ago about a guy who went hunting behind his house and a deer came into range. The problem was it had on an orange vest. I was someone's pet and they were trying to keep it safe.

When he went back into the house his wife asked if he got one.
"yea, her replied, it's out in the yard waiting on something to eat."

Could be just a fluke like the past video of a seal jumping into a boat, but guessing it was possibly a fawn raised by humans and released. Charming, though.

Lucky he didn't get the hooves!

Obviously not as afraid of humans as it probably should be. The 2nd deer doesn't seem all that nervous either. Its behavior saved it this time, but next time could very well turn out differently. I wish it luck.

He is lucky he didn't get hooves but it probably was a domesticated deer.

I have one hunting story that is similar. It actually made me go buy a go-pro for hunting. I was hunting and was sitting on single-leg chair up near some bushes overlooking a corn field. A pack of doe came upon me from a nearby field. The lead doe was nervous and flitting and grunting but she didn't run. About 10 doe were following her. Most went around me to the back and were standing around about 20 ft behind me. 1 doe came around the front of me, passed in front of me - I could have reached out and rubbed her head similar to the video. She stopped in front of me and decided to jump over the smaller bush next to me on my left. She "bodied" my shoulder as she jumped and then joined the herd.

From there I had to shuffle my feet a bunch of times to get them to move on because I knew if a buck was following them, there'd be no way to raise my rifle without spooking the whole section. They moved on and along came the buck. I ended up with a trophy buck on my wall - I'm looking at it right now.

One of the greatest experiences of my life.

When we were young, I guess I was 13 and my brother was 12, my Dad used to take us whitetail hunting in Center Co PA and would leave us at designated spots alone.

He was coming back to collect us and he walked up on my brother, propped up sitting against a tree dead asleep with a curious deer standing over him, sniffing him.

The cemetery I walk in has a large deer population.
In spring, its not unusual for Fawns to follow me around. I always make sure to keep an eye out for Mom!

Nice video. It reminded me of an encounter several years ago while backbacking on a backcounty trail in the Shannandoah National Park in Northern Virginia. I woke up just before daybreak and walked about 20-yards from our tent to dig a small cathole and "become one with nature". I just finished buttoning up my pants when the dense mountain laurel started shaking about 5-yards from me similar to the way the trees shook in the video. A large buck came out of the mountain laurel and looked startled when he saw me standing there. He snorted a few times, stomped the ground a few times, then we slowly backed away from each other. I was thankful he didn't arrive a few minutes earlier.

Smart deer. Nobody would shoot the deer standing next to a hunter.

A sweet, innocent, harmless, leaf-eating, doe-eyed little deer. … Imagine you’re a deer. You’re prancing along, you get thirsty, you spot a little brook, you put your little deer lips down to the cool clear water… BAM! A fucking bullet rips off part of your head! Your brains are laying on the ground in little bloody pieces! Now I ask ya. Would you give a fuck what kind of pants the son of a bitch who shot you was wearing?
"My Cousin Vinny"