Gutting Deer

[Littlefeather]

I shot a doe Friday night and couldn't lift it into the truck. Ended up making a ramp with two logs and sliding it up into the tailgate. If I would have gutted it out there, would it have wrecked my spot?

 

[River1]

From my experience, no it doesn't wreck a spot. I've shot a few bucks out of the same stands (same week) I've killed does from. In my spots the coyotes usually have it picked clean in less than 2 days also.

 

[Limb Chicken]

In my experience it doesn't bother anything. A couple of years ago, I shot a deer in the late afternoon, field dressed it, and loaded it into the truck. The next morning my friend hunted the same stand and had a very close encounter with a nice buck, and he walked right past what was left of the pile...

 

[Ghost]

I would be more concerned with your human scent contamination.

Gut it and get out of there.

I have shot more than one deer during gun season while they stopped to smell where the remains were.

They don't associate that smell with danger.....

 

[Littlefeather]

Wish I had known this Friday night. This was probably the biggest doe I have ever seen. She was a whale.

 

[SaskGuy]

When I went to retrieve my buck this year there were at least 10 deer within 40 yards of where it and the gutpile lay. One buck as so close in fact I wondered if it was eating the guts!!

By the way, what you see in the dark with the headlights is phenomenal, I can only imagine what you spotlight guys see.

 

[bushman]

I don't think that a gut pile will hurt anything. I have shot as they are standing over a fresh gut pile from that morning.

 

[Shovelbuck]

Had an idiot hunting the bordering property right next to me once. He'd hung his stand right on the fenceline so he could shoot onto my property.

The deer I shot that season expired about 20 yds from his stand. The only animal that gut pile bothered was the owner of the stand. Seems it ended up at the base of his ladder.

As for bothering deer, No it doesn't.

 

[kansasbowhunter]

Jay, did some of the intestines end up on his ladder rungs...

Maybe the heart and other organs in the seat of the ladder stand???

That would be funny!!!!

Mark...

 

[Nebraska_hunter]

i dont think it bothers anything. Every time i shot a deer the yotes get the guts before morning. I have never had guts stay over night without something eating it. Couple years ago my mom shot a deer and it was getting dark so we looked for it in the morning. Found the deer and the yotes at the whole ass end of the deer. Wasnt to heavy after that

 

[letemwalk]

I agree with the other posts - does not seem to bother deer to have gut piles around. One year, we shot 3 bucks from the same stand in 3 days - all 3 gutpiles were within 10 yards of one another!

 

[csheley]

I'm guessing any scent left by the pickup was far worse than the gut pile would have been. ;-)

I agree w/ what everyone else said...