Why would a deer be spooked by the sound of a deer feeder? I see deer bed up 20 yards from the road and have diesel trucks roar by…..neighbors kids learning to play to trombone…….me hammering, sawing, and running an impact remodeling…..dogs barking…..etc…..etc…..Deer aren’t automatically spooked by sounds such as this…..their spooked by sounds they associate with danger…..Just like when they start associating hunters with 4-wheelers. It’s a sound associated with something they have learned is a danger to them.

This just my opinion but if I were gonna set up a spin feeder around a food plot…..I’d cut a lane back into the woods maybe 40-50 yards deep or more and set it back off the food plot but to where you could still see it down the lane from your stand or shooting house…. I wouldn’t shoot any does off of it. If I wanted to kill does, I’d do it somewhere else.