GMMAT - I think a lot of people think way to hard on this subject. It's just outa your control, here's why...
Some people I talked to think "they" are the only one that walk through their hunting areas.
It really makes me laugh when someone thinks this!
Example... I hunted quite a few years up in "the great white north" on the border between NH & Canada with a guy who showed me this "secret" spot.
He was a local to this area and thought he was the only hunter out there. We wouldn't start hunting this area until we walked into the woods 2 plus miles,
past all the other hunters that generally hunted only 1/4-1 mile into the woods.
This spot is so deeeeep into the woods that you travel logging roads for 18 miles to park your truck and then walk 2 miles into the woods and hunt about 5 sq. miles between any logging roads.
Well I had to break the news to him that I bumped into one of the Benoit brothers, along with 2 or 3 others almost every year.
* This all equates to your "chance" meetings in the woods, inside this "secret" spot and what others do while your unaware of this. Meaning, maybe you don't bump into every Tom, Dick, or Harry while in the woods.

Deer are in their element when in the woods, as we all know, just as you or I are when we are inside our homes. If an intruder came into your house, would he know where you would hide inside your dwelling? I know this is a hunting site and can allready read your minds... "The intruder would never make it inside my home I would shoot him". So save me the posts about this (ha-ha).

What you do in your spot is one thing, but what about the next guy, especially in a well hunted area not counting the people that don't know land boundaries.
I believe that mature bucks are, of course, elussive and mainly, either nocturnal or will become nocturnal when there domain has changed.
I don't believe mature bucks leave their homes, they just become more reclusive or climb trees, as I never think to look up??!!??