In any hunting season, the smart animals are pursued and escape... Even good hunters are foiled in trying to hunt bear and cougar. The bear and cougar that get killed are those who allow themselves to be seen... Darwinism works in our favor.
Not all hunting even leads to a kill... sometimes there will be a combination of a kill season, and a pursuit only season.... an extra time to hone the skills of the hounds and hunters in pursuing the right game. Those seasons are valuable for their impact on the attitudes of the prey as well.
Exactly, and all this trains these animals to fear and AVOID humans/human areas. Good for us and good for them. We can't be perfect and achieve a perfectly safe Forrest, but we can make improvements and reasonable attitudes toward pursuit, use of hounds, and rocksalt loads will move in the direction of training predatory animals before a forced killing.