All my life with my club we have sent guys out from camp to meet the guy at this stand site. We have a location on one of our farms that has become the "gut spot" after years of habitually going there. We usually have it done within an hour. I have never tasted any bit of difference in a deer we gutted immediately on the drive, or waited awhile after shooting it out of a treestand. Personally, I don't want to be guttingin an area anywhere near a standsite i intend to hunt.