The gut pile would not be as much of problem as the human scent you leave as you struggle with the carcass.

Young deer may not be as bothered as much as the big boys.

I know of several deer that have maken the mistake of checking out a gut pile. One of which was a nice buck less than 4 hours after gutting the doe. Could have been the doe urine or something. But hard to tell. Midway through the week of our rifle season, I put the bone scraps where I could see them from my stand, in case a yote would come around you know. Well, the last night of our season, about 5 days later, a doe followed by a spike walked within 5 feet of the pile and never even looked at it. Probally within 20' for 5 minutes. First time that I have seen that, but then again our doe's were moving everywhere we didn't expect them to by the end of season.

have had deer spook from a gut pile, and had others walk up and smiff em, ya never know, thats the fun of huntin!!!

it wouldnt last long enough around here to effect your deer hunting

i have had yotes tryin to eat the guts outta my hand b4 i was done cuttin the wind pipe out...the pile wouldnt last long enough to scare a deer here....when the pile is gone so are the yotes...and i have seen yotes run right by deer and the deer just watch..so i dunno, i never talked to a deer b4

BS!

You've introduced them to your bullets and broadheads, then got them acquainted with the ground. That sounds like an up and personal talk to me!

iSnipe :biggrin:

I have found it depends on how big an area the deer have for travel as well as food sources.. This also depends on the number of deer in the area you are hunting in.. A gut pile wouldn't make it threw one night up here. But the blood on the ground will stay around for quite sometime.. Here the deer will travel away from there for roughly two weeks.. Although the occassional deer will wander by at night in this type of area.. Down in the southern part of the state it doesn't really matter at all..You can shoot a deer one day and come right back to it the next day and a deer will show up.. I am thinking it has to do with the deer numbers as well as the area they live in down there.. I am not real sure on why it is different that way though..

I had a young buck follow the trail I drug my doe out on this year. I gutted her within thirty yards of my stand, where she died (I gut them where they die) The young buck hung around for about 20 minutes investigating the scene. Gut piles don't matter around here. Unless you leave a lot of your own odor hanging around working up a sweat moving the deer would be worse in my opinion.

I never had a problem with it. Did have a black bear eating on the pile of an 8 pointer I'd shot the previous evening.