RR have you been nipping at the bottle? I don't see where anyone suggested he scout May through August or anything of that sort! But then again, for years I have done that very thing. Keeping "tabs" on several deer herds on the properties I hunt is just one of the many things I do during off season. If you know what you are doing you don't drive deer off. In fact you may accomplish the very opposite by getting them used to a vague human scent. And unlike you I don't take supposed 700 yard shots on whitetail, I get up close and personal for Archery so I obviously haven't scattered them off!