Hunting near gut piles

[two-feet]

So if there is a known gut pile close to your honey hole, do you still hunt there or do you figure the animals will be put off? I kind of figure the moose (or deer, etc) are quite used to seeing the remains of their friends and fam but what do you all think...

[OutWest]

Doesn't seem to bother them much. Killed our second bull only a few hundred yards from where the first was shot a couple of days before while the crows and ravens squawked away. Had the same scenario numerous times with deer in the past.

[Quantafer]

I've got a gut feeling about this.... :/

[finngun]

2-f ==So if there is a known gut pile close to your honey hole, do you still hunt there//
yes it might be really good for coyote,winni ,etc hunting place:mrgreen:

[whitetailsheds]

Have seen WT bucks and does walk right up to gutpiles from the day before and give them a good sniffin'............and they walked away! Un-spooked.......

[RB2]

My buddy shot a young bull moose standing beside a cow moose near Houston. The next day the cow was still standing beside the gutbag.

[two-feet]

Ok thanks guys good info

[ellenbill]

watch out for Grizzlies

[Steeleco]

How many of us have had one deer watch us do the deed on a recently shot deer. Happened on my sons deer this Sept. If only there had been a second youth with us, we'd have got 2 that day.

[hawk-i]

I shot a whitetail while packing out my Elk this year, also I've shot moose beside gut piles from the previous day too....doesn't seem to bother them much.

[Grousedaddy]

I read an article in a hunting magazine showing that deer are usualy the first visitors to a gut pile and will eat certain pieces of the remains, they're also known to eat fish and small rodents...... I was in shock after reading the article i didnt know deer ate meat ever

[hawk-i]

You ever watch a gopher eat his sibbling? Maybe they're just trying to stop the bleeding!

[Brian011]

Doesn't bother them at all, I've seen lots of deer tracks walking through the bloody snow from the remains of the gut pile the next day

[Summit 512]

I don't think it bothers them much,but like ellenbill says watch out for some thing claiming them?

[E.V.B.H.]

2-f ==So if there is a known gut pile close to your honey hole, do you still hunt there//
yes it might be really good for coyote,winni ,etc hunting place:mrgreen:


If by winni, you mean a bear, be careful. If you know the pile is there and shoot a bear off it it would most likely be considered baiting.