Thread: Deer Behaviour

What are peoples thoughts on the behaviour of deer that live/graze around farms etc where there is always noise, human scent etc? Do they become somewhat immune to spooking based on scent alone? Surely they would be bloody nervous wrecks if human scent bothered them and they were living in an area near farming activity?
We have a few deer about the place here and see them every now and then whilst out on the farm, I have actively hunted them and found them every bit as challenging as any other back of nowhere deer, in fact bloody frustrating as I get onto good sign and have had several instances that end up with a white bum dissapearing with a crash at a great rate of knots, have never been much of a bush hunter and im hunting scrubby fringe country between pasture and the riverbed where spot and stalk doesnt work as you cant see past 50 yards in most instances. This evening I went for a fish and as I came back up through the farm I got a glimpse of a deer with its head down grazing so I stopped my ute and walked back a few meters to see if it was still there, sure enough its still there oblivious to me, head down grazing probably only 100yds away. I could hear one of the boys a few hundred yards away coming down the farm on the quad to a paddock beside the scrub to move the cows and the deer seemed totally not bothered by that sound, the wind was blowing directly from that direction also and by this time I realised there was actually three deer there, a hind and two big velvetys, all seemed to be not bothered by any sound or scent coming from the farm. I walked back to my truck to grab my phone to try take a photo of them and thought surely theyre gonna get onto me and spook any second (i was surprised they didnt even seem to notice me drive past the first time)
Sure enough theyre all still there browsing and I got one on video, I ended up whistling at it and it lifted its head and stared at me but still didnt spook, after about 30 seconds or so it turned and bounded off with the other two.
I thought this was quite an interesting encounter as they seemed so un bothered by what was going on around them yet I have actively hunted them in the same area and they seem so savvy, to the point of frustrating the hell out of me, and when they spook they spook like any other deer and are gone like a shot! They also have a tonne of pressure put on them by idiots driving the riverbed tracks at night trying their luck trying to spotlight them and stalk them during the day so its not like theyre dumb deer by any measure.
Are they just so smart they knew I didnt have a rifle with me?
Interested in peoples opinions on how deer behave differently depending on their living situation