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I don't see how draggingan ungutted deer, then loading it on to a tailgate would be easier on someone's back?

I would not like to get any intestinal matter on my truck bed...it stinks like high heck and would stink up things I put in my truck bed...no thank you.

I say gut it where it falls.

Also, where would your truck be parked? On the side of a road? You don't want to leave a pile of guts laying on the side of the road. It looks bad!

well depending if ur useing a cart or not but if not useing a cart wouldent it be easier to gut it on the spot

We gut almost every deer and hog we get on the tailgate. just get him up there and start cutting. helps the back with all that bending over. Helps though to have 1 or 2 buddies with you to help spread the legs and maybe hold the light if it's dark.

If you decide to use a rope and hoist the deer up using a tree branch make sure you have the rope secured well. Once of my earliest childhood huntingmemories was of my dad "dancing" with a bloody deer.

i wish but i am the young buck doing it all on my own. i hope to do it the first time tomorrow. tomorrow i will be hunting a groub of bean fields a goods ways off the road

well i have a game cart so thats not a big issue. one thing i worry about is the fact someone gutted a deer right by where i park at one of my spots today it smelled bad and i am talking four days in 70s bad. I do not want to smell that or have the deer smell it anywhere near where i am hunting.

You worry too much! Just get out there and get it done and then it will all come easy to you. I gut the deer where they fall. The difference besides gutting a deer in the woods or alongside the road is, in the woods it doesnt take long for all the predators(Fox'x, Coyote, Buzzards, etc.)
to clean it up.
Buddy you can do what you want but I believe as well as many others you are going to put that much more stress on your back trying to get the deer out of the woods then you would by simply gutting it!! The chances are when you go to gut your fist deer, your adrenaline will be probably still be pumping and you wont even remember back pain!!!

ALSO didnt you say your truck was jacked up like 6+ ft in the air?? Once you were worried about getting a guted deer in the back?? How in the world are you gonna get a 50+ more pounds up there any easier???