Gutting a deer away from the kill spot

[Harvest the Land]

Ok, thanks for the great info fellas! I like the idea of dragging it away so no other hunters might key in on your spot.

This website is by far the best on the net. You guys are always so helpful - thanks a lot!

Cheers

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Wth whitetails, yes. Just did that last week. Shot a buck, drug it out and drove it spot to gut it that would make people think "WTF! Someone got a buck there!?!"
I know. I'm just mean. Lol!

[hoochie]

do you drag the deer away some distance before you gut it so that the other deer don't get spooked out by dead deer guts, and so you can go back and keep hunting that area in the future? Or do the deer not get spooked out and it doesn't matter where you gut it in an area that has lots of deer activity?

I would like to put trail cams on the gut piles, because I swear, what ever comes over night an makes it disappear must be something really hungry. At best you might find a leg left over and a blood stain.

[Seeker]

Wth whitetails, yes. Just did that last week. Shot a buck, drug it out and drove it spot to gut it that would make people think "WTF! Someone got a buck there!?!"
I know. I'm just mean. Lol!

Not cool! That's really gonna mess with my gut pile chasing!

[coach]

Wth whitetails, yes. Just did that last week. Shot a buck, drug it out and drove it spot to gut it that would make people think "WTF! Someone got a buck there!?!"
I know. I'm just mean. Lol!

Lmao.. Met some guys who did that where we were hunting last week and returned the favour to the hunting community last night by doing the same thing..

[338Schulz]

Thought it was your gut pile with the stomach content still there today,no feed lot within 20k so wasn't to hard to figure where the oats and alfalfa in the stomach came from LOL

[Fred1]

Don't sweat it for certain - unless it bothers the farmer... I have seen 13 moose shot from the same stand over a 21 day period - well I didn't see all of them die, and the field is quite big - but the moose kept coming thru despite the stench and Gbears. I have seen moose come out of the timber and stand over their dead buddies right after we drop em - and have even seen the same moose come back and check out the gut pile two days later. Until this year I have only seen deer hang out around a dead cow - it didn't seem to bother them though. However... leave a dead wolf carcass around or chip it up and spread it around and you wont see shit near there for up to three years...

[brian]

If you think about it, the animal probably doesn't know what a gut pile is. Understanding that a gut pile is your internal organs takes a bit of a logical leap that may be beyond a deers comprehension. Most deer would have a very limited interaction with internal organs until they were being ripped out of them. Certainly they can smell the aftermath in the area, but it may be meaningless to them unless there is fresh predator smell around. On scale of 1 to "get the f**k out of here", I'd say fresh predator smell rates pretty damn high on the scale whereas funky intestinal odors probably rate somewhere down in the odd yet nonthreatening smell that wasn't here yesterday.

[Sofa King]

the only thing about a gutpile that would alter the deers movements in the area would be the attracted predators to the pile.
my pile early in the season was cleaned up entirely, not a trace, overnight.
other deer were moving right through there immediately.

[BiG Boar]

I usually take and gut my animal to a key location if possible. Somwhere I'll drive by twice or a few times a day at 3-700 yards from the main traffic route. If I can put it 3-700 from just out of sight of camp even better. I love checking it and watching it disappear. Obviously in grizzly country this isn't that smart to have near camp, but I have shot wolves and coyotes near or on several gut piles in the last 5 years, and I'm sure it will keep happening in the future. Maybe one day I'll be lucky enough to get a bobcat, lynx or cougar on a pile. But leaving the pile where you shot the animal, out of the way, doesn't result in seeing as often, and therefore less chance of connecting with a wolf.