WI hunter pets buck

I have seen similar videos before. Could have been a fawn that was raised by someone and then turned into the wild. Pretty neat regardless.
 
I have seen similar videos before. Could have been a fawn that was raised by someone and then turned into the wild. Pretty neat regardless.
Until it turns into a "When Animals Attack!" episode.
 
We had a neighbor at the old farm that raised a fawn up he found in a hay field. Had it 5 years and it turned out to be a decent 8 pointer that the kids loved to play with. It was really friendly. Then someone left the gate open on the 2 acre pen it was in. The dam thing wandered away about 5 miles to the edge of town in Elk River MN. It was late Nov when a trucker staying at a motel saw it out behind the motel, so he decided to go get a closer look. That is when the deer came running over to the guy. This guy gets scared and climbs a tree. So the deer wanders off a ways until the guy tries to climb down, then here comes the deer again. So this goes on for a hour. So the guy starts screaming for help, someone calls the cops, and here they come. They were told a deer has treed a guy and keeps attacking him when he climbs down. So the cops fly up there toting shotguns. They get close to the guy and here comes the deer, he just wanted to play, nope, cops fill him full of lead and kill the thing. Elk River news credits cops as hero's for saving truckers life......WTF?
 
So the cops fly up there toting shotguns. They get close to the guy and here comes the deer, he just wanted to play, nope, cops fill him full of lead and kill the thing.

#Deerlivesmatter:)
 
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We have a small town not too far from me that had a "pet" buck. Always in town and not afraid of people. Once it got older though it got pretty aggressive towards people during the rut and they were afraid it was going to gore somebody. So they had the game and fish come tranquilize it and "relocate" it.
 
over the yrs I have been Lucky enough to touch a lot of WILD deer while hunting, been a bunch of yrs now, but back in the 80's when PA had a ZIllion deer it seemed, , wasn't that hard to get up close and personal with them
when I was a kid, I spent all the time I could in the outdoors, walking hiking or riding my dirt bikes
in one area middle of NO where I ran across a doe, she had a scab on both sides of here kill zone, behind shoulder, like a bullet went in and thru and out other side and it healed up
she used to ran after me on my dirt bike, and if I would stop she would come right up to me, it was crazy
SO every day all summer long, me and that doe, ran around some small coal backs, I rode up and down
and she would let me pet her and all that, was like a stray dog
never knew why she did it till today, but I remember it well
the following hunting season she went MIA< so figured she got shot

over the yrs I have helped out a few orphaned animals, from bears to smaller things
so I have been able to pet a wide range of wild critters
but I prefer them to be wild as nature intended
making them into pets, I see just leading to them getting killed faster!
Good intentions can go backwards fast!
 
These type stories are interesting
I had a fawn get stuck in my fence at new house and unfortunately got eaten by coyotes just last week. Wish I would have noticed the lil feller sooner

I have a good friend that raised a doe fawn that his dad found while bush hogging when he was a kid. It stayed close to their house Once grown. No fence. Could whistle and she would come running. Thing loved potato chips for a snack
 
This is from Pa. as well. Back in about 1983 I was hunting a very remote area in N.C. Pa. and was about 2 miles from my vehicle. I was walking out in the dark with my climber in one hand and my bow & a 6 volt lantern in the other. Leaves were down and very crunchy. I came to the intersection of 2 old logging roads on a ridge top when noise about 30 yds. away made me stop. I shined the light toward the noise and then a big doe and a young one started walking over toward me. They had to hear me - see me coming. The doe got to within 10 feet of me and started munching acorns. The smaller one came right over and ended up rubbing it's nose on my camo pants !! It walked all around me and kept rubbing it's nose on my pants, then started to eat acorns like the doe. It stayed within 3 feet of me while eating the acorns and then it sneezed - blowing snot and acorn debris on my pants !! I was talking to them both all the while and they never even seemed alarmed. I had the lantern on the whole time and got great looks at them both. After about 10 minutes of close-up encounter, they slowly walked away - eating acorns as they went. No snorting, no running. I started to walk away in the crunchy leaves, then stopped to see their reaction. None. They kept crunching acorns the whole time I slowly walked down the one logging road. I'll never forget that encounter, and I have no idea why it happened.
 
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