Setting food on public ground

[DoubleJ]

Here's the situation.  You have 300# of feed.  Oats, alfalfa, COB, etc.  A little bit of each.  You can make 2 trips to your public land hunting spot before the Sept 10th opening of archery elk.  Your plan is to set these bags of grain.  The questions are:

1.  when do you set them?  1 week prior?  2 weeks prior?  Do you dump it all in one trip?  Do you use both availible trips and spread the feeding out?

2.  When you set the feed, do you pour it in multiple piles around the area you are hunting?  Do you dump it in one big pile?  Pour it out in rows?  Spread it like chicken feed?


Help a brother out

[Woodchuck]

First trip out i would go at least two weeks prior and spread the feed out to try and get em interested. if the feed is being hit in a week i would dump the rest in a more central location as i believe they will be looking for it now 

[quadrafire]

Just remember if you hunt on any of the National Wildlife Refuges, it is illegal to bait or set food plots!

[DoubleJ]

Just remember if you hunt on any of the National Wildlife Refuges, it is illegal to bait or set food plots!

got it.  Not NWR land but I will remember that

[THINK_N_ELK]

Just remember if you hunt on any of the National Wildlife Refuges, it is illegal to bait or set food plots!

And I would think twice about harvesting a bear anywhere near your grain piles.

IMO

[400out]

Just remember if you hunt on any of the National Wildlife Refuges, it is illegal to bait or set food plots!

And I would think twice about harvesting a bear anywhere near your grain piles.

IMO

unless your spreading maple bars and salmon I wouldn't worry about that! You see a bear smoke it!