strange situation!

[paleFace]

I was just on the phone with my dad and could hear his girlfriend come in the house with a very excited voice.  

He said she took off running and then turned around and walked right back to him.   :confused:

This all happened while I was on the phone. I told him to call the Game Department, but wondered if any other Trad Gang folks have had anything like this happen?

[bowhunterfrompast]

Strange indeed, but an exciting event for your dad.

[Brian Krebs]

its 3 degrees out; and soon the deer and elk will decend upon my humble abode.

 I have donkeys that I have used to pack game and camps - and they eat hay. So do deer and elk.

 I have often had deer that by the end of winter are eating out of my hand; and although they will allow me to put my hand on their backs if there is more than one; and some confusion- they still have a little wild left in them. I have not petted one on the head. I have though had them push their way between my legs to get at the hay in my barn as I enter to get some of that pricey alfalfa.

 I made the incredibly stupid mistake of stalking up on some deer once; and grabbing a deer by the tail ( while I was bowhunting).

 Had it not been so cold out; and I had not had on thick clothing- the double foot kick I got in the gut might have left me there. ( ow )

 Most people are surprised at how small deer are when they get right up to them.

 All this does not keep me from being about to eat a deer burger
   

   on the deer encounter ! Makes good memories  

[myshootinstinks]

You're in a heat wave Brian.   :eek:   -10 here in Laramie.  Deer can be pretty tame. I've not petted one but I've had them approach me me within a few feet.

[STOBBER]

I've had a few yearling deer both doe's and bucks to get within a few feet of me . Even had a spike buck to get close enough i could touch his leg. I was lying in some spring honeysuickle trying to call a Tom in range when the young fella almost stepped on me.
Wish i could find that pic of me with the doe stretching her neck way out to smell my hand , she just popped out in front of us while walking down a logging rd....no fear of us at all.
Turned out to be good mojo....we arrowed two that morning before 8:00. Never made it to the stand.

[Problem Child]

About 8 years ago I came home from bowhunting to find a note on the back door that said "Open door slowly".When I did and looked in and there was a small deer in my garage eating corn on the cob.I had my bow in my hand and I swear natural instinct almost took over.So I closed the door and went around to the front door. The wife and kid was gone so I walked in the front door and "Bambi" was playing on the VCR. I put the bow away and walked back to the garage,opened the door and sit there and had a staring match with the deer. Then it licked my hand.About that time, the family arrived back home and the 1st question I asked the wife was....where'd you get the dang deer??? She said that right after I had left to go hunting earlier that morning that she heard dogs barking in the yard. When she looked out she could see that the dogs had the small deer on the ground so she ran out(in her night clothes)and ran the dogs off.Then she took an old sleeping bag and through it over the deer and put it in my garage.  :eek:    :eek:  We called the game and fish people and they said we couldn't keep it.So we opened the back door and had to literally push the deer out the back door. My wife and kid were already outside and they started walking toward the woods and the little deer followed them.My cat was following the deer. When the deer hit the woods, it just kinda meandered off.The deer probably weighed 45-50 #'s and was a buck. I did find out a couple of years later that a neighbor had a tame deer in a pen and it had gotten out about the same time so I'm pretty sure that was the same deer.

[Bonebuster]

I`ve never touched a live, uninjured wild deer,
but I had one blow snot in my face when it snorted from about three feet. (it actually got on my LIPS)

Unforgettable, but highly not recommended.

I bet somewhere nearby, that deer has had contact with someone else quite a bit.

[Mo. Huntin]

I had a trustworthy friend tell me he and his boys (petted) is that a word, a fawn with spots when they were shed antler hunting on public hunting ground.  He had pictures to prove it.
Thats correct while shed antler hunting in february.

another guy here on the edge of town came home to 5 cars parked at his house and several people were petting a doe in his yard.  uninjured doe

[Swamp Pygmy]

No but one time in a park I had two pigs pop out on the trail. I took a few pics and started to walk off the other direction. When they saw I quit paying them attention and was walking a different direction they both followed me for twenty yards or so. Wondering what I knew that they didn't I guess.

[Bjorn]

My son and I were hunting hogs along came a doe to see what we were up to. She came so close and hung out that we had to drive her off.
It was ridiculous stalking hogs with a doe tagging along.

[jacobsladder]

Went in the student union building one morning (michigan state university) and there was a small buck standing in the snack line at the cafetaria.....we think he came in thru the back loading dock and made his way down the stairs...it was in the basement....

Last year i was working traffic for a MSU football game...had a buck run by me and he made it into the football stadium thru the tunnel and into the visiting teams locker room...i think it was Indiana...

Weve also had several jump thru campus windows...

[BowHuntingFool]

My buddies son's were sitting around a campfire upnorth when out of the darkness comes a doe. Walks right up to them and they are petting it for an hour or so, taking pictures. Then she just walked back into the darkness! They were pretty cool pics!

[acolobowhunter]

The ranch I hunt javelina on in Texas have several deer that hang around the house.  First time I went to the door, a doe walked around the corner of the house and came right up to me.  Come to find out the kids feed some of the deer in the yard.  They even have names for them, so hunting them is out of the question!