Cutting them open....
#21
Typical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: NOVA
Posts: 780
RE: Cutting them open....
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.
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.
#24
Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2007
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Posts: 306
RE: Cutting them open....
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.