Haven't got a deer this year to affect the average, but had a close encounter though. Sitting under a small cedar, I heard something to my right and saw a small 4pt coming my way. I figured that he'd walk about 15 or so feet in front of me if he continued on his path. Sure enough he walked right in front of me, the stopped, and turned directly toward me. The whole time I'm thinking, "What is this deer doing? He has to see me. He has to smell me." He kept coming and I waited until he was about two steps away from my foot before I moved. In about 1/10th of a second he crouched, jumped, turned in the air and ran 20yds before stopping, look back at me, the whole time breathing quite hard. I'm thinking about making a large spear to carry out in the field with me. If I keep this up, it might be quite effective.