I go ahead and field dress, but sometimes I'll drag the deer further away from my stand site. I don't worry about it attracting coyotes as they are already thick as fleas in the areas I hunt.

As to spooking deer, I had the unfortunate experience of hunting over a poached deer carcass this fall. The area was just too hot to not hunt this area. It was interesting to see the reaction the local deer had to this dead deer. It was more of curiosity than fear. Many walked up within 10 feet when they caught wind of it. Deer lack the ability to reason how another deer was killed and death is just a part nature.I found the dead deer Nov. 10 and would guess it was 5 days dead.I killed a 150 class 10 point the fourth time I hunted the area (Nov.24)within sight of the poached deer.