Gut it where it drops.

Better for the meat and makes it an easier drag. Especially a 200lb + lb buck in the big woods.

For those who bring the guts home, what do you do with them? Throw them in the trash?

Plus, gutting in the field and you can drain all the blood there instead of at your home.

And the guts don't bother other deer. We shot 4 deer out of the same stand in a 3 day period once. All the gut piles were there. I watched a spike sniffing my buddy's gut pile from the day before this year.