I think some of these people and guide services require all game to be dressed at basecamps. It serves two functions... the first one is bogus... but they think that the gut pile will ruin the stands. AND, they hunt them a lot. Secondly, I think that if there is a lot of hunting and a lot of killing and a lot of gutting.... it just attracts un wanted critters to the area... ie. COYOTES. Also, who wants to put a guy in a stand the next AM after a kill and have him come back to camp complaining of coyotes, 50 buzzards and misc foxes and possums?

I always gut them where they fall. I did belong to a hunting club in Georgia years ago. The State biologist came to us and wanted to examine reproductive organs and age our deer. We said we'd help them out so we brought all deer to camp for gutting. The first year we shot 93 and they examined just about every one. They came everyday. I tell you, gutting them hanging up is really kind of neat. Just drop it all right in a tub. Gravity does it for you. One day they said we had to shoot more does. Well, there was limited doe days and tags at that time. We told him we didn't want to tag out without shooting some bucks. The guy said he'd be back with a CO. About an hour later he came back with a CO who handed us 50 extra tags to use to shoot some does. Unheard of RIGHT???<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> There were 14 in the club.





Edited by - davidmil on 01/28/2003 18:43:17