After you get snorted, I think the area should calm down in fifteen minutes or so just like when you walk into your tree and move deer. Also, there are two types of snorts and both signal that something isn' t right. The snort we all hear is the deer expelling air through its nose and the nasal flaps moving back and forth. There is a second higher pitched snort that the deer all seem to react instantly to. This one seems more serious. They may snort to get your scent better, my beagle does this when running a rabbit. After he is on trail for several minutes he pushes air out his nose. I think it is kinda like blowing his nose for better scenting. They may use the snort like they stomp their foot, to get you to move and show yourself and they sure use it to tell every deer around that there is something that just doesn' t look right in the area. In any case it isn' t a good noise.

Greg