Agreed, feeder won't scare them off permanantely. He is a slave to his stomach and will be back. Same goes for flash type trail cameras at feed sites, they get used to it after a while. It never fails that every week whenI pull the pics from the camera at my feed site, there are severalpics of the deer looking up at the feeder 20 ft above them. They know the deal. After a while, the sound of the feeder going off will be a dinner bell and they'll come in like clockwork. Pavlov's theory in proof.