well, i never did until my older brother shot his first deer this previous wkend. i told him that i would show/ teach him how to gut a deer by doing it on his first. and he just happend to gut shoot his first deer of his career. and ya it made me gag, and about yack all over everything. but i gutted o the next day and was fine with it. that was the only time that i have ever been close to throwing up.