I will not hunt my woods anymore, haven't for a few years. I will have my little dog out and a few deer will come across the yard to my apple tree, within 10 yards of us. My little one just sits and looks. the deer will hop away a little so I pick some apples and toss to the deer, they will come very close to eat them. I could hand feed them in a short time. I shake a few more from the tree and pick my dog up, walk right past the deer and they go to the tree. I talk to them and my other dogs in the pen bark but they don't care.
I can't shoot them! I have to go down the road and back in the woods to hunt.
I learned deer the first season and have had 17 feeding all around me, I can walk around, kneel down, nock an arrow and shoot one. I have made deer come over 100 yards to me.
If you confront deer and she stamps her foot, do NOT freeze, scares hell out of them. Lightly stamp your foot, it is a recognition signal and if you don't answer, they run behind brush and watch you. IT IS NOT A DANGER SIGNAL with a danger scent. Make all the same moves the deer does to you, if she raises her head up and down, do the same. I have actually had a deer 2' from me, little one ran out of the herd I was playing with, ran behind me like a nut and came right next to me to look at the rest of the deer.
I booted a big doe from a bed, played with her and she came back and laid down again, only 10 yards away. She licked her side and never looked at me as I looked for squirrels and acorns. I was not hunting, just scouting. I had to go to work so I walked past her, she jumped up and I said "ha ha, I fooled you."
Just act like a deer. I know everything about them and why they do some things.
Camo, never wear dark camo. I have worn snow camo in archery season or just a white "T" shirt. Blaze Orange is one of the very best.
Deer know every rock, branch and stump so if you wear dark stuff, you will be spotted right quick.
Don't buy all that special scent killer junk, you waste your money. Deer and fox get along fine and even play with each other, you can draw in a deer with fox pee. They hate skunk with a passion. Doe in season pee is great. Bottled stuff from Wall Mart is a money maker from fools.
The most I do is use Sports Wash to kill the ultra violet glow. Don't wash in laundry soap.
The noise that scares them are high frequency sounds. You can make all kinds of natural noises, break branches, etc. I was up a tree once making a place for a stand. I was tearing hell out of it, looked to the apple tree 20 yards away to see deer feeding. Many bows will make a deer leave before the arrow reaches them. It is not what you hear, it is what they hear. It is like driving a dog nuts with a silent dog whistle.
When you can walk into the center of a herd, you are there.
It is far easier to fool deer then to stalk them. You can't hide so become another deer.