Strange deer behavior

[PondPopper]

A couple of years ago I had a strange thing take place. Me and a hunting buddy went to hand corn one of my spots at around 10 o'clock one October night. I had been hand Corning it for a day or so already.. When I drove up in the jeep there was a perfectly healthy young 8 point yearling standing in the corn, in the headlights, eating.. Not a care in the world. I put my headlight on I decide I'm going to see how close I can get to him. I was able to walk up to him and grab his small antlers. All he did was slightly pull away, like a dog would do if you grabbed his ear, all the while chomping away on corn as if I wasn't even there. Blinking and licking his nose..This went on for a few minutes. He never did leave. We left him. All he did was walk off the road as I scattered the corn then he went back to eating. It was very cool.
It was a strange event.. We never saw that buck again.

[sotol]

I hunt in northernVal verde county. It's pretty sparse on the cover for deer. The good thing is you can watch alot of activity.
A few years ago I had busted a bunch of sotol and put it around my feeder then went on a walkabout. I went up a draw to a saddle then hung a right and followed the ridge around. When I was about a thousand yards from the saddle I see a young a point at the saddle. I watched him "trail" me , nose to the ground. I was behind a small cedar tree and just waited on him. He walked right up to the tree and stopped. When he looked up and thru the cedar he spied me. That buck nearly turned inside out getting there heck out of there. He must have wanted some sotol really bad.

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[bownutone]

Learn something new every day. Never heard of sotol.

[sotol]

I had two feeders at my stand. Each one about a hundred yards from the blind. They are about fifty yards apart. The deer have a dragstrip between them. They will be at one feeder and when the other goes off some of them will race.

One afternoon I had two does that were really hot. Each one had several bucks chasing hard. They would haul but out in the thick stuff the worktheir way back to the clearing. So much sexing going on that the horny little spikes started humping each other . I kept hoping a really good one would show up. It was quiet an afternoon.


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[venado]

We had large Lagunas on a place I hunted in Mexico. (A laguna is a large open area that on a few occasions floods with a few inches of water.) Good browse will grow there and deer flock to these Lagunas just like they would to an oat patch. I had hunted an island of trees in the middle of a 5-600 acre laguna and walking out after a morning hunt I had a doe chased by a buck run right up to me out in the open. She was worn out and really stressed and the buck wasn't much different. He came within 30-40 yds of me and she was much closer. As I continued to walk out she stayed with me all the way to the far side where there was normal S TX/ MX brush.

[sotol]

Back in 1987 we had a big fire at the lease in the early summer. Some of the big oaks burned up completely. That fall we would see a doe and her yearlings go by the ashes and the youngsters would play chase in and out of the ash piles. Dust everywhere and blackened deer.

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[79F250]

https://vimeo.com/189574997

Don't know if video will work. If it does you'll notice the deer grab some corn then tuck his head under his chest then get some more corn. After a couple bites he throws his head up stretching it really far back.
I've seen this deer several different times and every time he eats the same way. It's really weird. Dude ain't scared of nothing either. I literally walk up within 10 yards when it gets too dark to shoot before he takes off. I tried making all kinds of noises and he walks of then comes right back after a few seconds

[Tbar]

Was taking a dump one evening after the hunt up in Utah and a little doe comes within 10 yards and just watched me for the longest........lol.

At the west Texas ranch the Mule deer must have calendars. 2 days outside of season they didn't pay us any mind. We could be working on the old Willis jeep making all kinds of noise and they would come in to the tank to water not even looking up. The tank was only 40 yards away. When we would drive in the pastures they wouldn't run away but casually stay 60-70 yards out in front of us.