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Split_G3
my question is this: do you feel that field dressing your deer where they lay, effects that spot the rest of the year?
i started paying attention to this 3 years ago. in 2000 my brother-in-law and i were out scouting and found an amazingly heavily traveled trail through some pines, the kind of trail that when it rains the water lays in it, so this was an awesome spot to put a stand.
well as it turns out it was awesome until my BIL killed a nice 9 point and killed it dead in it's tracks with his bow(only time i have ever heard of this type of shot). anyways he died right on the heavily traveled trail. well i was in a tree not far away and he came to get me to take a look at his buck. then we field dressed the deer and took it out.
before him taking this deer, we had seen 9 different bucks and numerous does on this trail in a 2 week span(it was like they were traveling it 24/7). since he was tagged out i took over the stand and never saw a deer on this trail or even within a 100 yards of this area the rest of the year. at first i thought maybe we had left a considerable amount of human scent on the ground.
well i didn't have my question answered until the next 3 hunting seasons were over. i'll explain. in 2001 i took a nice doe early in bow season in a spot with pretty much the same type of trail, and in an area with little hunting pressure year 'round. we used to always see deer in this hollar, well after i shot the doe, although she didn't die right on the trail(about 30 yards to the west) i field dressed her and we didn't see a deer on that side of the hollar the rest of the season. in 2002, just about the same thing as the first 2.
well in 2003 when i took my buck, after i shot it, we drug it over to my 4 wheeler trail, about 100 yards away from the shot and trail(mostly flat creek bottom, not that hard of a drag). field dressed the deer, and still continued to see deer in this spot.
now i don't agree with taking them out of the woods before you field dress them(i guess it just don't make since to me). although i have a friend who for some odd reason prefers this. i don't know if anyone else has experienced this, but IMO i think there might be something to it, not saying there is, but just maybe. i truly don't believe it had anything to do with human odor, because we still didn't see any after rains, and deer do eventually become accustomed to a particular spot again that they felt comfortable in before. so i think me field dressing my buck from 2003 off the main trail a little bit kept the deer using this trail. maybe maybe not? just wondering
i started paying attention to this 3 years ago. in 2000 my brother-in-law and i were out scouting and found an amazingly heavily traveled trail through some pines, the kind of trail that when it rains the water lays in it, so this was an awesome spot to put a stand.
well as it turns out it was awesome until my BIL killed a nice 9 point and killed it dead in it's tracks with his bow(only time i have ever heard of this type of shot). anyways he died right on the heavily traveled trail. well i was in a tree not far away and he came to get me to take a look at his buck. then we field dressed the deer and took it out.
before him taking this deer, we had seen 9 different bucks and numerous does on this trail in a 2 week span(it was like they were traveling it 24/7). since he was tagged out i took over the stand and never saw a deer on this trail or even within a 100 yards of this area the rest of the year. at first i thought maybe we had left a considerable amount of human scent on the ground.
well i didn't have my question answered until the next 3 hunting seasons were over. i'll explain. in 2001 i took a nice doe early in bow season in a spot with pretty much the same type of trail, and in an area with little hunting pressure year 'round. we used to always see deer in this hollar, well after i shot the doe, although she didn't die right on the trail(about 30 yards to the west) i field dressed her and we didn't see a deer on that side of the hollar the rest of the season. in 2002, just about the same thing as the first 2.
well in 2003 when i took my buck, after i shot it, we drug it over to my 4 wheeler trail, about 100 yards away from the shot and trail(mostly flat creek bottom, not that hard of a drag). field dressed the deer, and still continued to see deer in this spot.
now i don't agree with taking them out of the woods before you field dress them(i guess it just don't make since to me). although i have a friend who for some odd reason prefers this. i don't know if anyone else has experienced this, but IMO i think there might be something to it, not saying there is, but just maybe. i truly don't believe it had anything to do with human odor, because we still didn't see any after rains, and deer do eventually become accustomed to a particular spot again that they felt comfortable in before. so i think me field dressing my buck from 2003 off the main trail a little bit kept the deer using this trail. maybe maybe not? just wondering
