I hunt near where we live - and not far from a dirt road -so I often will bring the deer back to the house to gut it out and clean it out with a hose. Less messy that way. Anywhoo, I'll scoop the gut pile up with a heavy snow shovel bury it aways from the yard a bit but have found the coyotes an/or neighbor dogs will dig it up that night. So next year I won't even bother burying it.

Sidenote: Always refreshing to see the neighbor dogs trotting out of our woods with gut pile smeared all over their snouts. Kind of my "passive agressive" way of getting back at them for letting their dogs run all over the countryside. Can't tell you how many times I've heard something trotting down a deer trail to find it's a springer spaniel with a collar and gold tags a jingling entering the clearing.