There are three bucks and probably a dozen does and youngsters that come into my back yard. The does are every day, morning and night, and the bucks are about 3x/week avg. The does will actually be 25 yards away from me when I am outside grilling or tooling around with something. When we have campfires out back its not uncommon for one of the does to walk up within 15 feet and feed with the fire blazing.... its unreal.
Anyway - I have no interest in taking the does, because its not sport when I can take a shot at one while flipping burgers. The older buck on the other hand is a separate story. I was thinking that being so close to the house and to human smells that the deer would be even more cautious, and therefor I would need to cover my scent even better. Do you think that the deer is "used to" the smell and it would be less of an issue? I know playing the wind is key, and I have that going for me since the prevailing wind is from the West, and that will blow my scent into my yard and past my house, not into the scrub brush/meadow/wooded area where they have to come from to get to my yard.
I'm debating going out there and cutting some shooting lanes, etc. Who knows, maybe that will freak them out and they will never be back!