The same thing happened to me years ago when I was in a club in evergreen. Just count it as a loss and move on. The positive side is deer are curious and you could probably kill a good buck right there where they are cutting. I started making friends with the logging crew and they would tell about the big bucks they were seeing while cutting or when they shut down for the day. In the afternoons I’d go sit in the skidder and watch deer feed till dark on the fresh tender browse that got knocked down. One morning I walked in right behind the skidder and by the time he fell off the hillside and started cutting a big nine point came walking out and I was able to shoot him. Sometimes you gotta make the best of the situation. It worked for me I killed two big bucks hanging around these guys while they were cutting