Read all my comments. I never said that a newly introduced feeder wouldn't impact deer. What I have said multiple times is that continuously run feeders will NOT scare or impact deer, once they are accustomed to them. I do NOT turn mine off. I run them year round.

I do the same thing with ground blinds. I set the last of them last weekend, 4 full weeks before GA gun season.

Everyone knows a new ground blind spooks deer. That's why folks set them early. I have done the same with the feeders.

I will be the first to say that a new feeder installed a week or two before deer season will impact deer. That's why I never turn mine off.

So, spin feeders do spook mature bucks.

New ones could, yes. So would smoking a stinky cigar in your tree stand and playing the ball game on a radio without headphones.

It's not a permanent condition by any stretch. Refer back to the many pictures posted here of mature bucks at feeders. I have shot at least 12 mature bucks in the past 5 years hunting near legal spin feeders. Oldest was 7-1/2.

only if they hear the safety click off......

How tall is that feeder at the lid? looks low? I want to put one at the new house, but I can't get a truck to where I'd put it, so I'd be filling it from the ground. Most of the ones I've seen are too tall for me to fill it without standing in the back of the truck, but that one looks manageable.

Lid is at about 6’.

My All Seasons Stand&Fill is about 4-1/2 feet to the lip. It holds 300 lbs of corn.