I'd do it, too. I scouted a couple of possible locations yesterday and sat in one of my stands for a while-- watched a doe and fawn walk around for a while... the doe scented me and got nervous, but didn't leave the area. I know a lot of guys hang a stand and never come back until it's time to hunt, but I read an interesting article about Andre D'Aquisto, the inventor of Lone Wolf stands, and he's got a really unorthodox way of hunting. He'll intentionally walk into bedding areas trying to scare up bucks. He said something to the effect that most people think that if a deer sees you in the woods, the deer will run 100 miles away and never come back to that same area, but that's just not the case. He'll bust in on deer bedding, hang a stand and come back the next day and see/shoot the same deer. Personally, I'm going to stay away from my stands until the season starts after checking things out yesterday, but reading about D'Aquisto's methods sort of changed my perspective on how deer react to people.

Also, there are farmers and people cutting wood in the area I hunt all the time, yet that activity hasn't pushed all the deer off the property...