I have heard that too. I am always quick to point out that if they're eating a gut pile they are called "scavengers". I usually get them a distance from my stand to gut but don't haul them too far. Mostly to keep the "scavengers" away from my stand. Nothing like 40 Black and Turkey vultures fighting over guts right next to your stand. Around here a gut pile doesn't last more than a few hours, once the birds find it goes away quick. I really don't leave much but guts too. I use the liver, kidneys, heart and lights. Mostly just leave the digestive tract. Only exception is when hunting in sandhills and dunes and near new plowed fields. Moving deer over them after field dressing will get you some ruined meat with all the sand and dirt on/in them. If only leaves and fallow stubble and crop waste washes out easily and no damage. Yes some of the federal and state areas do not allow field dressing on site and I comply there.

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