Yeah they pretty much take off right away at least the ones I've seen have been running.
I worry more about bears to be honest. Can't see them all the time, and if you walk up on one of those you better be ready cus they won't run. Fuckers!...
Years back...I was scouting elk in a swamp buddies and I had 2way radios, we agree to a meet place, I come up out of the swamp a bit had a sammy and waited for him to meet me, now we're still in the timber. I sit down kinda and we were talking it didn't take him long to me me after I got to the spot...like maybe 5 minutes, pretty quick his eyes got like 50cent pieces....NEXT Thing I see is his gun come up and boom! ...shot a 300lbs+ bear about 20 yards behind my back! No joke, that was the last day I ever went out without a bear tag.
Black bear will mess you up, for real.i don't hunt some places because of it...
Found some fresh tracks tonight, see what I find inthe morning