depends on your deer. they busted you twice I say wait a bit

I was thinking something else was meant when you said you were busted.

I have seen deer step over a dead one and jump in the feeder pen.

I have seen a deer walk into an oat patch with 4 dead does and get shot.

It all depends on what the area you hunt is like. We hunt on 850 acres of pulp wood and mining woods. The deer are used to seeing people here, smelling cigarette smoke and everything that comes with high traffic areas. We can get by with alot here that you couldn't somewhere else. I've actually walked close to a deer and he just stood there for a bit and looked at me before he walked off into the field.

As many other wise ones have said on this thread, the answer to the OP's question depends on your land, the hunting setup, and the pressure on the deer.

Are you in a ground blind? Tree stand? How high?

Was it windy? Wet?

Are the deer close to people? Overpopulated? Had plenty of forage?

These all effect the approach of the doe to the feeder.

My best luck has been in a 15 foot ladderstand, well into the trees. My current stand was where I took a doe like you mentioned this season. It is wooded, a doe group of six came in each morning, and the "Alpha" Doe would wander in a circle stomping while the other 5 would eat at the feeder. She never blew, but she was certainly providing overwatch for the other doe in her group. She and the others looked up in my direction many times but never busted me. On the second morning I let her go into the stomping act and then she decided to fight with another doe. I let her fight and then stand there calming down... "thwwwunk!!!" a 20 yard bow shot and she is now at the processors.

Edited to add; This all applies to Bow Hunting. I was assuming that is what the OP was discussing. As far a gun hunting goes, I have seen many deer the same afternoon in the same spot I was busted that morning. Box blinds, truck cabs, etc. do wonders to mask you from 100yds or better away.

I've been busted and had deer on me 30 mintues later. Been busted and see the same does with twin famws back in the corn the enxt morning.

I have yet to get caught by a trophy buck, but I would not assume I'd see him again if it happened. Big deer don't get to be big by being stupid.

I'd go back. Never know what those deer are gonna do.

I'm not a bow hunter (maybe one day) so can't give advice on that. However, about 30 yards behind our house our land slopes down to a creek about 200yds away. We throw corn out sometimes and watch the deer. We also have 4 outdoor cats and have noticed on many occassions that if the deer spot a cat either on our back porch or out in the yard they stomp but don't blow. Sometimes they raise tails, walk a few yards then start eating again and sometimes they end up leaving but only rarely blow. Maybe the cat isn't big enough to really scare them IDK, but I think they might stomp to try to scare away the threat.