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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: DoubleJ on December 15, 2010, 07:52:39 AM

Title: Setting food on public ground
Post by: DoubleJ on December 15, 2010, 07:52:39 AM: 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
Title: Re: Setting food on public ground
Post by: Woodchuck on December 15, 2010, 08:15:39 AM: 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 :twocents:
Title: Re: Setting food on public ground
Post by: quadrafire on December 15, 2010, 08:22:19 AM: Just remember if you hunt on any of the National Wildlife Refuges, it is illegal to bait or set food plots!
Title: Re: Setting food on public ground
Post by: DoubleJ on December 15, 2010, 08:26:29 AM: Quote from: quadrafire on December 15, 2010, 08:22:19 AM
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
Title: Re: Setting food on public ground
Post by: THINK_N_ELK on December 15, 2010, 07:54:38 PM: Quote from: quadrafire on December 15, 2010, 08:22:19 AM
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
Title: Re: Setting food on public ground
Post by: 400out on December 15, 2010, 08:17:44 PM: Quote from: THINK_N_ELK on December 15, 2010, 07:54:38 PM
Quote from: quadrafire on December 15, 2010, 08:22:19 AM
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!