to gut or not to gut
01-04-2010, 05:55 AM
#31
Typical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: N/W WI.
Posts: 814
Gut it where it drops. Also I agree, does'nt mess up your stand. I have had bucks come in and smell the gut pile only to just mosey on their way. Never bothered them at all.
I hunt about a half mile from my truck. The gut pile doesn't bother the deer, not to mention that they get eaten within 24 hours by fox and buzzards.
01-04-2010, 01:27 PM
#34
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: North Louisiana
Posts: 3,050
I don't gut mine. I hang my deer and skin it as soon as I can after killing it. I will cut just enough of the guts to get at the tenderloins. After I cut the backstraps out and get the front quarters, I saw the back at the hip and the carcass falls to the ground with guts inside. I never have to touch the guts. The two hind quarters are now hanging, and I saw them in two and put in the ice chest. I can do this whole process in about 20 to 25 minutes. I also wear surgical gloves when I clean deer. It keeps my hands nice and clean.
01-04-2010, 02:19 PM
#37
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 1,085
I maintain that nearly all of the time, it is a REGIONAL thing...
Nearly everyone north of the Mason Dixon lines guts them where they drop, or fairly close...
Many hunters in the south take them back home, to a camp, or to a processor for the gutting..
Hunting methods have a bearing on this.. In the more southern states, much hunting is done from established stands over agricultural areas where it is easy to drive up and throw an intact carcass into the truck, and take it somewhere to be processed..
Up north, we usually have to drag the critter off the top of a mountainous ridge, or out of a God forsaken hollow, and often getting a vehicle to it is not an option..In that case, lighter is better.. Why drag the guts..??..
Nearly everyone north of the Mason Dixon lines guts them where they drop, or fairly close...
Many hunters in the south take them back home, to a camp, or to a processor for the gutting..
Hunting methods have a bearing on this.. In the more southern states, much hunting is done from established stands over agricultural areas where it is easy to drive up and throw an intact carcass into the truck, and take it somewhere to be processed..
Up north, we usually have to drag the critter off the top of a mountainous ridge, or out of a God forsaken hollow, and often getting a vehicle to it is not an option..In that case, lighter is better.. Why drag the guts..??..
01-04-2010, 04:29 PM
#39
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Audubon & Red Rock, Penna.
Posts: 4,472
Gut it where it drops.
Better for the meat and makes it an easier drag. Especially a 200lb + lb buck in the big woods.
For those who bring the guts home, what do you do with them? Throw them in the trash?
Plus, gutting in the field and you can drain all the blood there instead of at your home.
And the guts don't bother other deer. We shot 4 deer out of the same stand in a 3 day period once. All the gut piles were there. I watched a spike sniffing my buddy's gut pile from the day before this year.
Better for the meat and makes it an easier drag. Especially a 200lb + lb buck in the big woods.
For those who bring the guts home, what do you do with them? Throw them in the trash?
Plus, gutting in the field and you can drain all the blood there instead of at your home.
And the guts don't bother other deer. We shot 4 deer out of the same stand in a 3 day period once. All the gut piles were there. I watched a spike sniffing my buddy's gut pile from the day before this year.
Last edited by BarnesX.308; 01-04-2010 at 04:31 PM.
01-04-2010, 05:15 PM
#40
Spike
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Tampa Florida
Posts: 12
I don't gut either, I skin it quarter, back straps, and even tenderloins without touching the guts, and take all the meat off~~~ the ribs and guts are all thats left, then we designate a spot on the lease we don't hunt for a gut pile and listen to the yotes get fired up!