I also gut my deer where they fall! We have coyotes around here but I don't think it is alot! I do agree thatif they are around the deer tend not to be!
This reminds me on the opening day of archery last year me and my Brother-In-Law hunted about 95 yards apart and we had a black bear come by both of us in the morning! He came right to the base of my brother-in-laws tree and stood up checking him out! He then came down past me at 5 yards from my tree! We did not see a thing all morning! I went back out that afternoon in the same tree and got a nice 8-pointer right before legal shooting hours ended! My brother-in-law did not go back out with me that night so I went to get him and his father to help me get my buck out! It was about a half hour to 45 minutes when we got back to where my buck was laying. I gutted him out and as we were gutting him we heard sticks start to snap behind us. I had a cordless spotlight with so we shined it towards the noise and there was a bear looking in our direction! It is pretty wide open hardwoods where I hunt so you can see pretty far. I say the bear was about 75 to 80 yards from us!! He must of been headed towards my buck! I'm just glad we had it gutted before he came! Me and my brother-in-law tied the legs to a small tree and carried him out instead of dragging him! It was much easier anyways! Needless to say the gutpile was completely gone the next morning!