Just a thought?

[Iglow]

Do yall think neighborhood deer, being around and smelling people constantly they get to depending on they ears and eyes more?
Seems where they rarely smell people id guess nose comes first line of defense but who knows?

 

[EastTNHunter]

My neighborhood deer are funny. They almost seem to know when you don't have a gun or bow. They tend to get smart around hunting season and not show as much, as well

 

[Jcalder]

According to most on here, neighborhood deer are pets and don't have any senses regarding people.

 

[Setterman]

Having spent lots of days hunting hood deer the dang things seem to differentiate humans or at least location of said human. I've seen them ignore a homeowner and then lose it when they hit my scent. Almost like the homeowner is familiar and safe, and I'm different and a threat

 

[Bushape]

I think that a deer's senses are so remarkable that they are able to take years of information and process it to determine what is and isn't a threat because that is their nature. Just because a deer lives where lawnmowers and fabric softeners are common it doesn't mean that they still are not keen on any and all abnormalities in their "hood."

 

[Mr.Bro]

No different than farmland deer.
They see kids on 4wheelers, people riding horses, farmhands in and out of fields. They have smelt everything.
Trouble getting out of your stand after dark with deer in the fields? Just talk to them. They ease back in the woodland or fencerow and 10 minutes later go back to the field.
I've seen em back in the field before I get to the truck.
Yeah the neighbor deer are ease.

 

[CharlieTN]

Having spent lots of days hunting hood deer the dang things seem to differentiate humans or at least location of said human. I've seen them ignore a homeowner and then lose it when they hit my scent. Almost like the homeowner is familiar and safe, and I'm different and a threat

I've found the same thing. They'll be in my yard, definitely down wind from me and won't pay much attention to me as long as I stay on the deck or the driveway. I've literally walked 15 feet from a doe and fawn going to get the mail and they just stood there looking at me. But if I'm in the woods, directly behind my house, they get real antsy around human smell.

They know what belongs where and they get used to that. If it's not supposed to be there, sight, sound, or smell, it will put them on alert.

 

[Iglow]

I hunt these here around the house some and everybody around me is retired so they are around people real regular but let them get downwind of me and the start blowing and all just like any deer anywhere. They just seem to read body language and determine threat from no threat as far visual thing.

 

[BSK]

I've found the same thing. They'll be in my yard, definitely down wind from me and won't pay much attention to me as long as I stay on the deck or the driveway. I've literally walked 15 feet from a doe and fawn going to get the mail and they just stood there looking at me. But if I'm in the woods, directly behind my house, they get real antsy around human smell.

They know what belongs where and they get used to that. If it's not supposed to be there, sight, sound, or smell, it will put them on alert.

This is the answer. Deer have a shockingly good sense of spatial awareness. They know where human activity is normal and not a threat, and where human activity is a threat. They will ignore the farmer in his fields or around the barn, but let that farmer climb into a stand in the woods and suddenly he is "out of place" and a threat.

 

[BSK]

According to most on here, neighborhood deer are pets and don't have any senses regarding people.

All depends on location. In the Nashville parks, where deer are not hunted, they don't see humans as a threat at all. I regularly run right past deer within touching distance - even older bucks - and as long as I don't make eye contact, they just stand there as I go by.