RE: shooting guns
I wouldn't worry that much about it. Once gun season starts all hell will break loose anyway. I wouldn't suggest it if you are bow hunting the same area though, or if others are.
Like the others said, I would take the risk to make sure you know where your gun is shooting. That is much more important. No sense worrying about spooking the deer if your not sure you can hit one anyway right.
Heck when we where sighting in our guns at the end of summer we saw deer at six in the evening in the same field we were shooting in all day, not even an hour after we were done goofing around.
And I have killed a deer one day, and had a buddy hunt my blind the next day and kill another, with the gut pile still there!
Paul