I' m on a lease in South/West Texas and will be using the same stand location for most of the season. Do you guys think that field dressing a deer where it falls will create any problems or effect my chances of getting more deer later in the season? Will the deer avoid a gut pile? Should I drag the deer out of the stand area before I field dress it?

drag the deer out of the area do not gut on the same place as your stand will be there will be alot of scent on the ground. and you will attract coyotes.



go deep hunt hard.

Gut piles have never bothered the deer that I have hunted! It will be gone in a day or two. I have killed deer over gut piles before, so I usually gut ' em where they lay!

In my area the coyotes will have the pile gone before the next morning. It doesn' t bother the deer where I am, and it really doesn' t matter that I am drawing in coyotes b/c they will be there reguardless if I draw them in or not.

gut them where ever is easiest, i havent had a problem yet, my friend shot one last year at about 8 a.m we gutted it and had it out and back by 9 and i shot mine at about 9:30 so it shouldnt matter much

Not trying to start anything here but I always bury the guts etc... In my opinion, it is more ethical. -- CDH

NOPE, I shot a second deer already when the deer was standing right next to the gut pile. Infact he seemed curious with it

In my experience it doesn' t seem to bother them.

Gut em where they fall Hasn' t seemed to bother anything yet. Burying the gut pile ethical?

A pile of guts won' t bother them any but I ususally try to get mine to the barn or somewhere to hang him up with a garden hose near by cause I' m usually withn 300 yards of the house, I can do alot cleaner job of gutting one hanging and you don' t have the body cavity all full of leaves and junk.