Cutting open the stomach is a part of hunting, it's research for next years hunt. It's like looking at a elapsed time schedule for the deer which tells you where it's been for the last 24 hours. I'm often amazed at the contents of a deers stomach. In the rut for example, lots of guys say that bucks don't eat as much but I've never shot abuck in the rut that didn't have a stomach packed absolutelyfull. Late season, you'll almost always find corn in them from cut corn fields (if you're in farm country like most of us are). They will travel great distances to getfood, more than you think. A DNRreserch agent in Iowa once told me that they have bucks radio collared up in N.E. Iowa and that many bucksrange 20 miles which just amazed me.