Alot of it has to do with perceived threat.

Are they gonna run off outta sight when you come driving in or driving by? I would fully expect them to. But they r probobly just getting outta the immediate area. And many times deer circle back out of curiousity. The hunter may not see them but the deer could be somewhere checking out what they were riled up by. Alot more deer see hunters than hunters see deer - that's a fact.

Quick story. We had a 3 day gun season and we hunted Friday and Saturday but only the morning of 3rd day. It was getting kinda warm and we had just basically said let's break camp.

Well a few of us stuck around and did some stand maintenance, trimming and firewood gathering for the next outing. Ran all over the property with some ATVs hootin, hollering and even drag racing the quads in a bean field.

A few hours later 3 of us decided to hunt the late afternoon and evening and we shot a bunch of deer all right around and in the bean field we had been racing in.