Sitting in a ground level shooting house/blind about 8 years ago on the edge of a food plot. I hear something walking behind me so I scoot back in the blind to hide my silhouette and ready my gun. My heart is pounding as the footsteps get closer. Finally I see a nose so close I could reach out and touch it. The next thing I know I am eyeball to eyeball with a full grown nanny doe. I say eyeball to eyeball but we were probably about 2 feet apart. She sniffed a couple of times and I remember them being the loudest breaths I have ever heard. She yanked her head out of the blind, looked like she was going to bolt and then slowly walked out into the patch and started feeding. Right behind her was a fawn. I watched them feed for an hour before they finally winded me and took off. I have no idea why or how she didn't smell me as we were nose to nose.

Had one eat corn out of my hand.


Now this was February many years ago while baiting for hogs. Had a button head and doe twin that someone had shot their momma early season. They always hung out in that area. Would even walk between the legs of the tripod while I was hunting in it.

Had another encounter when I heard a buck chasing a doe up a thick draw to me. I was sitting on the ground. Heard him grunting the whole way in. The doe stopped 5 steps from me. The buck kept coming and all I could think about is when I move she's gonna absolutely freak. Once he hit the opening, I threw up for the shot, she fell down trying to get away but luckily ol bucky decided to stop long enough drop him. Absolutely the best hunt I've ever had.

This was at Berry College over in Georgia.








This was several years back. This buck wouldn't leave either. Fun watching him. He finally eased on off.






Had this fat doe underneath me a couple years back during the rut. She kept looking back and I figured a buck would follow. He never showed up, and she eased off - I let her go, thinking if I shot her that would run a buck off. Didn't see any other deer. Go figure.


There's been plenty of others where I've had 'em right under me. Most all of those times I had other deer around and I couldn't move to get the phone out and get pics. Its always fun to have them close by and watch how they act. Very curious, and very suspicious animals, for sure.

I've had them sniff me when I was sitting in honeysuckle (not 30 minutes after smoking a cigarette) and step over me several times. All on the ground on public land.

Had some that would eat apples within a few feet in the yard (including one huge old boy) but they don't count.

Most recently, one jumped over my legs and I shot the one behind it on Oakmulgee with Bait57 last year.

I've had a bucks & does walk within a couple of feet of me several times. Not sure who was more nervous, me or them. I had a nice 10 pointer catch me totally off guard one morning. He was all of a sudden in front of me and I couldn't move for fear of spooking him. He walked within a few feet of me headed towards my downwind side and still didn't spook after he passed me. I couldn't get a shot off due to other deer traveling with him. One was the largest doe I'd ever seen at that time. She didn't quite get to me before she knew something was"t right. She stomped & blew and steered clear of me. The buck on the other hand looked back at me then turned and kept walking. When they got about 50 yards aways, they both started blowing at me and hauled ass. Go figure.

I forgot about this one from a few years back at my sons football practice.

I have had one stick her head in my ground blind.

2 years ago, I was bow hunting from the ground. had a felled cedar at my back, still full of green. I could see the brown blob of deer coming, but nothing else. I drew, he walked past me at 4-5 feet. He was a spike, so I let him go.

I shot a 10 point last year in January - as I was filling out my harvest info I heard another deer walking my way. Had a young 8 point coming dead at me and the downed deer with all the hair on his back standing straight up. . I finally had all I could take at about 5 steps and “scared” him off. All he did was change direction and kept walking like a zombie deer.

I've had a couple get close enough to stomp my azz.

I shot a doe last year at 150 yards, I was on a hill the does were across the way on another hill, when I shot her they all ran down into the bottom where she crashed out, the other 3 kept on coming, they ran up the hill towards me they got with in 5 feet of me I was already standing up so I waved my arms and they stopped for a few seconds looking at me then they took a right and hauled butt out of there... I thought I was going to get run over..

Sitting on the ground, hada spike make a rub and scrape within 10 yards.

I have petted a deer before in my backyard. Must have been a rescue. A true wild deer, about 10'. Smelled the last rung of my ladder stand.

Close enough that I could have shoved the end of my barrel into his nostril.

Had a button head smell the bottom of my boots when I was sitting on the ground

Had a doe feed so close to a tower blind in Texas that I could hear her chewing. Later that day in another field, this buck fed within 5 yards of my blind, low fence, free range.

Had several within a few yards of ground blinds, and killed a doe with a bow 20+ years ago because she walked under my tree during bow season and stood there staring up at me. She was less than 10 feet from the tree when I shot

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I was turkey hunted two years ago and heard something walking behind me. I thought it was a turkey so I didnt move. I was sitting on its trail. When it go to me, it jumped right over my right shoulder and kept going. It was a small doe.

Had one today break bay and come running full speed right at me,threw the gun on my shoulder.he was about 15 yards from running me over.the movement I made putting the rifle to my shoulder made him Dodge to the side.saw his eyeball in the scope so I shot,hit him in the neck he did a complete summer salt and a nose dive,whew close one.