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How close have you got to a deer?

40 years ago I was hunting with my Uncle out at in Utah. I had shot my first deer late morning...yay. Then we got with 7-8 guys and decided to push up a mountain to scare the deer up to 2 guys on top of the mountain. Well, I was 16 and in damn good shape so I beat all the other guys climbing up about 2500 ft. I got to the top and sat against a tree catching my breath, when a big doe came running up. She froze about 6 feet from because she could smell me. When she turned her head, I reached over and touched her. She jumped 6-8 feet in the air and took off as soon as she hit the ground.
 
This was up close and personal.
Finally found this old pic. Wife and I were driving to work one night and found a big old 8 pointer real closeup. He jumped out in front of me and I hit him once, he went up in the air and came down and wrapped around the fender. That was a 1988 Caprice, built like a tank. Tore it up from the bumper to the front doors.

Was on a dark road, and there was a gas station at the top of the hill a few hundred yards away. Managed to limp the car there to call my son and cops. By the time my son got there somebody stopped and picked that sob up. Really pissed me off, I was going to mount that thing.

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He mighta took it like a man and survived!
 
Hell me and some buddies were walj8ng back from a neighborhood pool in peachtree city and had one walk right up.to us out of someones yard. Came up just like a dog, sat there petting it for about 10 minutes then kept walking and it followed us the entire way
 

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