Go to a whitetail ranch.

shoot it first, but then u have the problem of it not being alive anymore.

I've touched a wild deer (doe) while hunting. I was standing on a steep spine ridge with a very pronounced gametrail on it, the path so beaten it looked like a tobaggen run. The deer game accross the sidehill below, hit the ridge and doubled back up the ridge towards me. I stepped back behind a small tree for cover as she walked right towards me. I'm very still, hoping a buck is not far behind. She's obviously been pushed as she is panting very heavy and looks tired. As she passes me at about 2 feet, she stops and gives me a puzzled look. I reached out and gave her a couple soft two-finger pokes in the ribs. She snorts, jumps backwards, repeats the puzzled look, and slowly walks off, looking over her shoulder once. Not my brightest idea, just a silly impulse. I guess she was too tired to kick the crap outa' me. Hopefully she lived to see another day. I didn't have a doe tag, and wasn't shooting one that far in even if i did. Something i'll always remember though.

I've been with in 1-2ft of a whitetail buck! He came to my house (it's in the country) at night and my dogs went wild! See his pic on my profile!

I've come very close to touching deer but never by design. Most of the time if the wind is perfect and the weather is just right, full camo and perfectly clean clothes. I has a doe walk down a trail once and pass within about 1 foot of me and continue on her path, About 5 feet beyond me she squatted as low as you can imagine and made a 20' leap into the surrounding brush never to be seen again. Another time a small buck was walking toward me in a open field and I was sitting on a stone wall just inside the wood line. He showed no concern at all and continued on his path until he was feeding almost at my boots. He finally looked right into my eyes and got out of there at a leisurely pace, didn't seem to be all that frightened.

I usually do it by accident.......

It is very hard to sneek that close to one (darn near impossible.) So I just let them come to me sometimes (when they are stupid enough.)

A Petting ZOO!

Pour "Doe Estrus" on yourself and find out!

I touched a very young doe once but the set up was a complete accident. I was walking in one morning and jumped a herd so I stopped and sat down just off the trail. She walked up right behind me and walked by me. I reached out and touched her back leg.

Late last summer I was walking down a logging road when I saw a spotted fawn trotting down the road toward me from about two hundred yards away. It kept dodging into the edge of the woods and back into the road, so I drew my .38 to give a surprise to whatever might be chasing it, coyote, dog, etc. The fawn ducked into the thick woods just in front of me and I stayed still, waiting for the pursuer which never showed. I heard footsteps and the fawn stepped back into the road right by me and stopped right by my leg where I could have reached down a couple of inches and touched it had I wanted, but I didn't. The little fellow was already stressed enough---tongue hanging out and panting---without my scaring its spots off. It eventually walked off into the woods and I never did determine what caused it to be running even though I was able to backtrack it nearly a half a mile along the road. I hope it got back with its mama but I'm afraid it didn't because I saw its tracks (or a fawn the same size) in the road right there for the next couple of days with no accompanying doe tracks.

It seems to me that the deer would have to wander to you in order to get that close and that it would be very difficult for someone to move that close to a deer.