Cutting them open....
12-02-2008, 12:21 PM
#1
Dominant Buck
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Cutting them open....
After my adventure yesterday.....and my deer I took, Friday...I wanted to ask a question about field dressing your BOWKILLS.
With it being late in the season....and seemingly people targeting food sources again....do you cut open the stomachs of your late season kills to see what they've been eating?
I'll admit I've had two chances to do it (one mine and one a guy I was hunting with) within the last 10 days and it never crossed my mind while I was doing the deed.
With it being late in the season....and seemingly people targeting food sources again....do you cut open the stomachs of your late season kills to see what they've been eating?
I'll admit I've had two chances to do it (one mine and one a guy I was hunting with) within the last 10 days and it never crossed my mind while I was doing the deed.
12-02-2008, 12:25 PM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Northwest suburbs, Illinois
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RE: Cutting them open....
I did it once in late November of 2006 on a buck.
Wanted to see where he came from as it wasn't the direction I expected. At least not on that morning.
He was full of corn. Which meant he came from just over 1/2 mile away.. and from across a road.
I'll do it again.. when I need too.
Wanted to see where he came from as it wasn't the direction I expected. At least not on that morning.
He was full of corn. Which meant he came from just over 1/2 mile away.. and from across a road.
I'll do it again.. when I need too.
12-02-2008, 12:25 PM
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 4,911
RE: Cutting them open....
The only bellys I will cut open on purpose are fish!
Anything else is an accident. I generally know what they are eating in my area, but at least now I have an excuse for when the knife slips[:'(]
Anything else is an accident. I generally know what they are eating in my area, but at least now I have an excuse for when the knife slips[:'(]
12-02-2008, 12:28 PM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Cenral Illinois
Posts: 3,180
RE: Cutting them open....
If I kill one this late season, I'm cutting it open. I realy want to know if they are traveling to a corn field that is a ways away, nearly a mile. But, its the only one for a LONG way. There's winter wheat, alfalfa, beans, but that is the only corn around. This will be my first intentional stomach cutting.
12-02-2008, 12:32 PM
#9
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: SE Ohio
Posts: 2,531
RE: Cutting them open....
I've done it several times, and it's is pretty amazing what you find sometimes. Half chewed acorns, and corn, beans, BRIGHT GREEN remains of "osage oranges." The spot I'll be headed to in about half an hour is full of osage, and the deer LOVE that stuff. So hopefully something makes a mistake this evening and gets hungry for some osage oranges.
