Severalyears ago, my father shot a doe. He got the doe early in the morning. He gutted it and hung it in a tree to air out. He still had a buck tag, so he went back to his stand to wait on a buck. about an hour later he saw another doe. It walked up to the dead deer, hanging in the tree, and smelled it. It then walked away. Deer do weird things.

By the way, I just gut them where they fall. The gut pile will feed many types of wildlife.