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Where do you gut your animal?
09-12-2007 | 10:21 PM
#32
Fork Horn
Joined: Sep 2004
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From: utica, new york
RE: Where do you gut your animal?
gut it close to where it drops, not worried about yotes, if they decide to come in then i let them have it too. The yotes are there wether there is a gut pile or not. Plus the farmers land i hunt wants the yotes killed anyways
09-13-2007 | 05:36 AM
#34
Nontypical Buck
Joined: Feb 2003
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From: Western Iowa
RE: Where do you gut your animal?
I usually gut it right where I find it. A friend of mine mentioned to me once that he had shot a doe and it fell within seeing distance of the stand and the next morning there was a buck standing over it smelling it and wasn't even worried about it.
09-13-2007 | 05:44 AM
#36
Dominant Buck
Joined: Feb 2003
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From: Blossvale, New York
RE: Where do you gut your animal?
The only time I don't gut them where they fall is if I know I have a deep stream or something to cross. Then I'll leave them intact, drag to the stream, float them across and then gut them. they float real well when whole but not when they're gutted. I have a couple places just like that up near Booneville, NY.
09-13-2007 | 06:33 AM
#37
Giant Nontypical
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RE: Where do you gut your animal?
Depending on whether or not I plan on hunting in the area again in the near future ( within a few days or so), I'll take it away from the area. The ravens, crows, coyotes, etc will drive me nuts if I don't.
09-13-2007 | 06:40 AM
#39
Typical Buck
Joined: May 2007
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From: South Carolina
RE: Where do you gut your animal?
Most people in the South don't field dress their deer. Since our deer rarely reach 200lbs.
I don't gut mine at all. I hunt less than 15 minutes from the processor who does my meat. The teenage guys who work there get paid $10 a deer to clean it for you. $15 if you want to have it caped out to get it mounted.
Call me lazy. After draggin' a deer in 90 degree heat with 80% humidity back to the truck. The $10 is well worth it to me.
I don't gut mine at all. I hunt less than 15 minutes from the processor who does my meat. The teenage guys who work there get paid $10 a deer to clean it for you. $15 if you want to have it caped out to get it mounted.
Call me lazy. After draggin' a deer in 90 degree heat with 80% humidity back to the truck. The $10 is well worth it to me.
09-13-2007 | 06:53 AM
#40
Fork Horn
Joined: Aug 2007
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From: Northern Virginia
RE: Where do you gut your animal?
I'll do it in very close proximity to where it drops. I'll drag it maybe 30 or 40 feet at most to a suitable tree and hang it to gut it. It is usually within sight of my stand. Like someone else mentioned above, I've shot deer who were sniffing the remains of a week old gutpile.