BCBOY,
Before I start, let me say that I swear on a stack of 240 non-typicals that the following is true.
I had a similar experience with a horny mule deer about five years ago. I hunt whitetail every year in one of the best mule deer areas in Saskatchewan, sounds logical right?. Don't see many huge whitetails, lots of 130's and 140's, the odd 150-160 and once every few years one that will push 170. But the main reason I hunt whitetail there is because I get to see a lot of huge mule deer bucks after the season for them has closed. I'm always amazed to see how many big deer make it through our rifle season.
Anyway, opening day of whitetail and I'm hiking way into the hills to one of my favorite spots. It's still well before shooting time when I here grunting to my left. I could vaguely make out two deer on the flat below me, but could not tell if they were whitey's or mulies. So I sat down on the trail to see if they would stick around till daylight. Well, fifteen minutes later and I can now tell they're mulies. A good size buck chasing a doe, and by the racket he was making, he was lookin to get some, if you know what I mean. Out of the blue, he suddenly stops chasing the doe and looks over right at me. Keep in mind, I'm wearing white and there's no snow on the ground. He must've mistaken me for the nice white rear of a willing, albeit rather large, doe, cause he made a beeline right to me grunting the whole way. Before I know it he's standing on the trail 25 yards from me. Of course the first thing I do is size up his rack. Not a bad one either, clean 4 x 4, maybe 185 gross. Big mature deer. The next thing I notice is the look in his eye, and it is most definitely not fear! He starts towards me, grunting and slobbering like a pig with every step. At 10 yards I flick the safety off my rifle. Even though I'm obsessed with big mule deer, I'm not gonna let some stinky old buck have his with me, in season or not! At 7 yards I think "enough already", stand up and say very clearly "That's close enough big fella!". I'm not sure what I was expecting the buck to do, but what came next really blew me away. Instead of being startled and running away, he blows snot at me and proceeds to squat and urinate all over himself. I didn't know whether to be amazed or look away in embarrassment. So by now, I'm pretty sure this buck is not all that afraid of me. Being somewhat astonished at this whole episode, I do what any smart person would do, I take a step towards him. And to my surprise, he grunts, throws his head back and takes a step towards me! At this point I'm realizing that I'm in very real danger of having an ass-kicking laid on me, or worse yet, something else involving my rear end! So I take a couple of steps back. This bold move startled the buck so much, he also took a step....towards me. This happened three times! I'd step back, he'd step forward. Honest to God, I was beginning to wonder if I was being set up on one of those hidden camera deals. This deer was not in the least afraid of me, and I'll tell ya, the way he was looking at me...creepy! It was like he was saying "yeah I now you ain't no doe Boy, but you'll do juuuust fine".
I was getting uncomfortable with this situation, so I took off one of my gloves and threw it at him. Of course I missed and it landed on the ground in front of him. He finally took his eyes off me and bent over to smell the glove. He looked back up at me, snorted/grunted and simply turned around and slowly walked away.
I don't know if anyone else has ever been "afraid" of a deer before, but I was. I'm 6'-2" and 215 pounds of solid marbled, kinda muscley, mostly saggy gelatinous tissue(lest anyone think I'm sculpted muscle or anything), but this buck was easy 350+ on the hoof. I do not think I would have fared well in a battle with him.And that's assuming he wanted to fight me. If he was looking for the alternative.....I don't even want to go there!
I've seen rutting mule deer bucks do some pretty stupid things, but this episode is by far the weirdest thing I've ever seen