"I figured I'd wait for him to leave the clearing, however, after five minutes of standing there, he wouldn't leave," Maxon wrote in the video's description.
The video shows the deer very slowly make its way to Maxon, who holds out a hand and makes the sort of noises someone might utter to attract a friendly dog.
The deer walks right up to the hunter and allows the man to scratch it on the head.
"In my 12 years of hunting or the additional decade of experiences of going hunting with my dad and uncles I have never seen or experienced anything like this," Maxon wrote.
Maxon told KSTP-TV he couldn't bring himself to shoot the deer after the friendly encounter, although the buck "would have been a nice one to shoot."
