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I do it to some deer, lets me know what there eating.

But i make sure i do it after that deer is clean and the guts are in there final resting place, then ill cut it quick, look and see and get out of there, hate that smell.

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I always do in my neck of the woods because I have no Idea what they feed on 1/2 the time so I just do it. It helps that I don't have a strong sniffer either.

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I always do, food sources are constantly changing around here so I like to stay on top of the game. Plus the smell dont really bother me, so thats not an issue...

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Cutting open the stomach is a part of hunting, it's research for next years hunt. It's like looking at a elapsed time schedule for the deer which tells you where it's been for the last 24 hours. I'm often amazed at the contents of a deers stomach. In the rut for example, lots of guys say that bucks don't eat as much but I've never shot abuck in the rut that didn't have a stomach packed absolutelyfull. Late season, you'll almost always find corn in them from cut corn fields (if you're in farm country like most of us are). They will travel great distances to getfood, more than you think. A DNRreserch agent in Iowa once told me that they have bucks radio collared up in N.E. Iowa and that many bucksrange 20 miles which just amazed me.

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After we get everything out of the deer, we cut open the stomach. No matter what time of the year it is. Pretty interesting really.

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Not me. It stinks too much.

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Makes sense to me.

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Me play in gutpiles??

yep. :D

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emmmmm, guts.

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Corn?! I didnt eat any corn.....