Germ

I touched a deer once, then she pimped slapped me. I guess they do not like being touched there.
Beside the tip of my arrow giving them a little "touch" I have not been close enough. I have been about 5 yds from a buck on the ground. I was head to toe in scent-lok. The deer just walk right around me.

Trembow

On my Illinois trip this year, a guy I was hunting with was walking in to his stand at 2pm when he saw a doe standing there in front of him. He stopped there and suddenly realized he felt like someone was watching him. 5 yards beside him was an 8 point buck (not a shooter though) just feeding and watching the doe, paying little attention to him. The buck eventually walked right by him close enough for him to reach out and grab it by the antlers.The doe and buck walked away unphased.

Rob/PA Bowyer

I've touched pet deer on a number of occassions. I work as a telephone technician which gets me to many residences and serveral over the years have had deer. One in particular scared the bejeezes out of me. I was walking across the lawn from my truck to the protector on the house after knocking and getting no answer. The yard was full of debris and after several trips through the stuff suddenly one of the pieces moved. Startled I jumped back and scared the bejeezed out of a chained large 8 pt buck....shocked us both when I jumped. I was rough housing the buck at the end of his chain when the owner came out and said I shouldn't do that. Seems the bucks broken his chain once before and pinned the guy against a shed and punctured his leg with it's antlers...

Actually broke my heart to see the animal on a chain but it was a neat experience.

In the wild, nope never touched one but it's one of my goals. The closeset I've gotten was laying on a trail while turkey hunting. As the deer neared I layed there and was all but reaching out when they spooked....inches but didn't make contact.

stoneman

Twice. The first time, I was sitting about 5 feet off the ground on some blowdown, and it was snowing very hard. I was almost completely covered with snow by the time 3 does came up the trail toward me. 2 went around the blow down, the 3rd eased her way through. She sniffed my boot and licked some snow off of it before passing beneath me. Another time I was shotgun hunting with my uncle, and he had me position myself at the end of a small draw on a hillside. He went up to the top of the hill and walked slowly through the dense brush. After awhile I saw a couple doe bounding through the brush. Very slowly and gracefully. Once the doe got to the edge of the thick stuff, she broke into a run, at a straight line right at me where I was crouched on my knees. I stood up and wave my hands at her, and she tried to change directions in mid run, and fell down, with her legs scrambling...she slide right into me and knocked me down! I covered my head thinking I might get kicked in the face, but she got up and zoomed off...she looked like one of those cartoon characters where their legs are windmilling in a blur!

NEB.BuckHunter

I have had the chance on many occasions. I usedto live in Casper, Wyoming for a little while. There was an area there where people had fed deer for several years, the way that I understand it, and the deer would come down from the mountains in the evenings because they knew that people would be there with food. I have pet and messed around with several large muley bucks. I even got gutsy enough, or maybe stupid enough, to feed them carrots out of my mouth. It was pretty cool. They weren't pets by any means, wild deer, but nobody could hunt in that immediate vacinity. They had to be 1 mile away, I believe to be able to hunt the deer.

HAZCON7

Yes when I was a kid about 10 years old I walked up on a mule deer buck in Colorado and we got into a bit of a fight. He was trying to disembowel me with his antlers while I was trying to push his antlers away from me. We probably struggled for about 10 minutes before he got me pretty good in the gut and I fell over - then he just ran off. No blood but I stopped trying to sneak up on deer without a weapon after that!

The Deer Destroyer

The only deer I have touched,that was alive, was a doe who was pinned up. When I have been hunting out of my ground blinds, I have been very close to deer that just walk by without seeing me. I have tried to sneak up on deer, but I only scare them away.

Brennen24

Once me and my family were camping in a small campground. Not far from our camp down by the river I saw this mule deer doe. I was bored and decided to try to see how close to the deer i could get without it running away. It was feeding along the river and i just took slow steps toward it. (I didnt have camo or anything on, and it totally knew what i was). It would only let me get about 5 feet away but still it was awesome. (I know that being in a campground and all the deer was super tame, it was still an aweseome experience though).