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Old 11-26-2008, 09:25 AM
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gmil6184
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Default RE: Field dressing

This year I got a doe on opening day of archery season. After the shot I waited on stand for like an hour just to make sure i gave her plenty of time to go down. while i was waiting i had a small button buck walk down the same trail the doe took and when he saw/smelled the bloody arrow sticking in the ground he went on full alert! You could just see the body language difference, looked like a coiled spring haha. anyways he walked around the arrow and continued on his path but i would def say he was a little spooked.

If you aren't going to hunt that spot again for a few days I would say go ahead and dress it out right where it falls. Any scent will have disipated by then and coyotes or other scavangers will likely have it cleaned up. If however you plan to hunt that spot later that day or even the next day I would not gut it too close to the stand. Instead I would drag it to an area a little farther away (~100 yards seems plenty far enough) and gut it there.
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