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Post by esshup on Dec 7, 2021 11:03:55 GMT -5
With a 1.5 mile haul, I would most definitely field dress before dragging. The only time I don't dress on the kill spot is if it is within 50 or so yards of a stand that I intend to hunt again within a few days,in that case, I get it 100 or so yards away and Gut. Gut piles don't hang around long. This… I don’t think guts bother deer but I do think the smell of predators that guts attract could. ^^^ This. I've had deer sniffing the gut pile of a deer killed earlier in the day too. I've also seen an old doe look at the white belly of a dead deer that I had shot 15 min prior and stiff leg walk away, keeping at least 50 yds away from that deer. I'm guessing it was the white that she was reacting to though as she was upwind of the dead deer. |
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Post by INhuntin on Dec 7, 2021 17:36:51 GMT -5
If I'm hunting on someone else's property I take a shovel to bury the gut pile.
On public ground if I'm dragging it out any distance more the 50 yds it gets field dressed before dragging it out in an out of sight place like behind a large log.
But my back is more important than the gut pile getting left where it may scare someone or animals.
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Post by titanium700 on Dec 7, 2021 17:56:55 GMT -5
Gut piles don’t last overnight the places I hunt.
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Post by medic22 on Dec 7, 2021 18:00:57 GMT -5
Same here. I shot a buck once and some critters got into the gut pile and opened up the stomach that night. The next day I hunted the same stand and a much bigger buck came through and was eating the corn out of the gut pile. I couldn't believe it! I also hung a camera over a gut pile once to see what all animals would come to investigate. I was surprised how many deer came in to it and were eating the stomach contents. Definitely not something you would expect. Now, is that considered baiting? As crazy as it sounds, I can't really see an argument that its not baiting. It attracted the animal right? Does have been know to eat still birth fawns. I would guess CO discretion. |
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Post by greghopper on Dec 7, 2021 19:22:48 GMT -5
Now, is that considered baiting? As crazy as it sounds, I can't really see an argument that its not baiting. It attracted the animal right? Does have been know to eat still birth fawns. I would guess CO discretion. Probably no different then cow dung manure seen Turkey picking corn out of that in field . Not baiting is my vote! |
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Post by firstwd on Dec 7, 2021 22:17:51 GMT -5
It is baiting if you're shooting coyotes off of it. 😁
We chuck deer on the quad and gut about 100 yards from the cabin just to shoot coyotes off of it. Generally I have a huge red tailed hawk that takes command of the gut/body pile and coyotes are a nighttime only visitor. She is a bully. Last year she rolled the eagle that landed on the pile, he came back 2 days later and grabbed a gut to go. This year we ended up putting a second pile about 500 yards away from the cabin. The eagles stay at the back pile and avoid the hawk at the pile close to the cabin.
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