Thats all fine and dandy if you live in an area where you can bait. Here in Iowa, you can feed deer if you so desire, but you cannot hunt any trails leading to or from the feeder or the feeder itself. The deer are not afraid of me when I am on the tractor. They will walk in front of me in fact. But if I stop the tractor and get off, they are out of there! If I walk around the property, bedded deer will get up and run. Yes, deer do associate some things as non threatening, but still consider a human on foot as a threat. I would also go as far as to say the deer at your feeder wait until your scent is not real fresh until approaching, thus knowing that the threat has left.