Some of you guys are really full of sh!t
I NEVER gut my deer in the woods. I take them back to camp and do it there. I dispose of the guts in a pre-planned gut hole.
All this talk about effecting taste is a bunch of BS, old wives tales. I've had deer that were gutted on the spot and deer that weren't gutted until the next morning. Absolutely no difference in taste.
Oh yeah, the bung hole has meat on it as well, do you gung ho guys eat that too?