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Grandma called those apple bucks! Her deer leave them alone. They spend all year eating the yard shrub's and garden plot. While getting used to people not screwing with them. A entire summer goes by peaceful. Then comes old grandma and pops one with her 25-35! Not just where we lived, but all over the country!

I like the sound of that caliber. 25-35. Been wanting one for years now.

Liberal parenting at it's finest. Good Lord!

Could it be the product works?

Ghost, Hunt says no. I expect he knows.,

Umm..........no.

Any wild deer would not stick around with someone walking up to them in the wide open.

Nice job editing out the corn feeder.

[quote=kid0917]I like the sound of that caliber. 25-35. That's what she used, not only deer but elk and a cougar that was after her sheep! Eastern Oregon back country was nice in her time! 1888 till 1961!

those kids sure can stalk up real close

I used to fish a public area where a whitetail buck would come up to you and want you to scratch his head and neck. He was maybe 120" 8 point last I saw him.

Could it be that their product works?

Yeah - not much fence... I once walked around the corner of a 3-sided multiple spruce tree deadfall, about 7 feet tall on a side. all 3 sides.

20 feet in front of me was a bull moose bedded down. He jumped up, turned, and cleared the deadfall behind him- no running start even.

I only gave him a 9.5, as a hind hoof ticked the top log going over......


Not bad for a 1200 lb animal!

Beats the hell out of getting run over , too!

They are wild in the sense that they are not confined but they are semi-tame in the sense that they don't recognise a threat. We have deer and elk which hang around our place and are not tame but are used to us. Not real tough to walk up to within 30 yards of one of them. I tell the folks in our campground not to let the kids get too close to them because they can be unpredictable. Just like elk in Yellowstone park, wild animals but don't see people as a threat. GD

Chin-ball Wizard ,wasn't that a song by the Who.

Whose Who

Shouldn't that be hoose hoo?

If one can escape the influence of internet opinions, these two comments are laced with reality in the Mule Deer world. The deer shown are indeed "tame" for whatever reason/s but they are not confined by the livestock fence shown in the video.

THIS

All ya have to do is feed them with camo on and they’ll get used to it...

I first looked at this thread very early this morning after being awakened by the bull elk which was standing next to my shooting bench (about fifty yards from the house) and bugling while the rest of the herd just blundered around the yard. These were not as tame as those mule deer and wandered off when I went outside. Of course, I wasn't wearing any special camo; just a maroon bathrobe and my legs are white enough that they practically glow in the dark.
I once low-crawled through a herd to within about fifty yards of a bull. Interestingly enough, I wasn't wearing camo that time either but plaid pajamas and a t-shirt. I also had a beagle beside me. I think the elk just looked on us as objects of curiosity. The bull turned out to be too small to shoot.
The elk don't get as tame as the mule deer. The whitetails don't either but they are less jumpy than the elk. GD

Dad's uncle had a spot on Lake Pend Orielle ID. There was a small band of "wild" mule deer that could be hand-fed.

Regarding the original HECS video, there's plenty of places where the deer get that used to human activity. Irrigated Alfalfa fields/pastures and low/no hunting pressure will make deer and elk do things in broad daylight that you'd never think possible. Bucks and bulls that will lay <100yds off of a busy gravel road and not think twice even when you stop and glass or photograph them. Find some irrigated Alfalfa within say 20Mi any direction from Yellowstone and it'd be painfully obvious how easy and common the OP's video is for those who have access to those places.