I agree, the gut shot is bad. Of course it really depends on what the animal was eating. Where I normally hunt, the deer usually only feed on buds, acorns, and what not. This year I shot two, one in the gut. Opened her up and found corn meal mix. Don't know where that came from, but it darn near made me heave. Got the job done though.

Best story I can remember was when my buddy and I went out bow hunting sort of hung over, and not much rest. 15 minutes into my day, he comes over and says he's done. I thought he was done for the day, but it turned out that he had already shot 2 deer. Watching him gut out those two deer hung over was priceless.

Unfortunately, I had to drag them out, as he was white as a ghost, and weaker than hell.