Your vehicle have a gas leak? Deer dont care if you are walking in or drive car, a mature buck will spook no matter what and human scent is worse. They see vehicles all the time unless you are in the middle of nowhere. Thats why you drive to a point and then walk unless you are talking about 20 acres. Have a large lease and more than one member you have to drive to a point. I rather teleport to the blind.

I walk because I don't want the deer to pattern me/know I am there. My place has almost no vehicle traffic. I understand each place is different and driving may not be an issue on many places.

One place in south tx we never even get out of the buggy. Just corn the road, park and wait on shooting light. Jump out with the shooting sticks and boom. I wish it was that easy everywhere I hunted. on second thought it might take some of the fun out of it.

During deer season, I never move the truck from my cabin until the day I leave. I hunt virgin river bottom that sees no vehicle traffic near the river for a 1/2 mile in the closest direction and at least 3 miles in the other direction. Deer are more likely to hear a boat on the river than a vehicle

My closest stand is a 1/4 mile walk, if the wind is right, a 1/2 mile if I loop around due to the wind. The stand right on the river bank is little over 3/4 mile walk. That may require waders if we have had a lot of rain.

I only drive back to fill feeders on the day I am leaving, after the last hunt.

When hunting pigs, I'm not nearly that worried about driving around.

A few hundred yards at least.

It comes down to what they are accustomed to seeing and smelling. The same reason that deer eat from the side of the road or walk up to my bedroom window.
We open our blind windows and try to drive daily to feeders and walk around them the month or so before season. We always get get good deer, compared to the guys that try to stay away from a blind at all cost before season and complain that their are easily spooked.

Na gotta disagree with you here. The smell of gasoline is more potent than damn near anything, just because you can't smell it i promise you a deer can. Just sitting in your vehicle contaminates your clothes with all kinds of odors one of which is probably gasoline.

Now im not saying you won't still see does and small bucks, but the big boys won't be coming around. Im an old school type hunter though, i take every precaution i can, its part of the fun to me. Plus walking is good exercise

I walk, about 20 miles minutes to stand.
Last weekend was working all day on blinds spilled gas all over me. Decide to just sit in my blind and relax.
Two bucks came to feeder and walked right by my stand.
The gas talk is interesting, because I for sure thought it was way to strong. But they didn't seem to care.

It probably depends a lot on where you are hunting. I know in my experience on public land they will spook at anything and everything.

Park in the brush then go 150 to 200 yards.

Our rancher oils the roads. Deer don't care. We hunt elevated blinds. Cow guy is there daily. In South Texas you drive and corn and deer pop out. Never heard of gas scaring deer.

Park right beside my stand... our deer are use to seeing trucks out and about all the time...tried walking in and never saw anything.. owner told me to always drive in

My barn is about 40' from the blind... They're used to me being there.That reminds me I have to bomb the interior.

Well it seems there is no right or wrong on this thread. I walk a couple hundred yards to my stand and it seems alot of yall are like me and think thats far enough.

Same here. I sometimes get back to the truck and there will be deer just milling around it. Cracks me up because I will sometimes throw corn out at the truck to keep the cows from following me. Guess some deer have got wise to that trick as well.

About 1/4 mile from the stand.

It really depends on the blind I am hunting but try to park as close as I can since I use a road feeder 100% of the time. Archery blinds I park from 100 to 250 yards away depending on the deer travel routes and cover to hide the Ranger. Rifle hunting it can be from 15 yards to 250 yards away depending on the travel routes and best cover to hide the Ranger. No matter where I hunt I am always feeding the roads after I have all my hunting gear in the blind. I feed roads from late August till Feb everyday. The deer are used to my routine and sometimes I have deer on corn before I can get in the deer blind. Makes it really tough in archery season if I park to far. I use the Ranger in all daily activities on my place or just to do an evening ride around. Yesterday morning I was checking a fenceline and jumped 2 4-5 yr old bucks that were bedded about 200 yards to the north of a feed pen. I had been to all the feed pens and shot 3 coons in traps at another feed pen to the east of the bucks about 30 minutes earlier. They were not the least bit alarmed due the normal daily routine they have been used to seeing for 4+ yrs now. If I was hunting out of only one elevated box blind all the time I would make me a tower that was enclosed and park inside the enclosed area under the box blind.

I quietly park at Ranch house and walk 1037 yards to my blind.

I park the truck/atv/golf cart probably 125 yards down a twist road and behind some small trees. had deer withing 50 yards of the truck before when walking back after a hunt

Must be driving a Dodge...

I usually park at least 800 yards away. Sometime further

7-800 yards away. And I carry all my clothes in hand because its still hot.

Depends. I've parked beside my blind and shot deer. Under my climber and did same. Parked far away and killed. Guess it depends on where ur hunting

About 8 or 9 years ago, my first time on this forum I got hooked by the very same question and laughed my a$$ of with the answer..
"MY CAR IS MY BLIND"!
HOPE ITS AS FUNNY THE SECOND TIME AROUND.
OKIEHUNTR