Where do you field dress?

[DntBrnDPig]

I'm on a lease where the 'unwritten rule' is dont field dress in the woods. Most members on the lease pull the deer out to the front of the property and field dress in one specific location.

I've ALWAYS field dressed where I found the deer - with the exception of 1 or 2 times when it was incredibly convenient to move or do somewhere else.

What do you say? Will field dressing a deer in the deer woods kill chances at future deer?

 

[Lost Lake]

I don't know if it really hurts the movement but the critters a gut pile attracts will. I take mine out of my hunting area and dress them in a spot where the critters can have at it.

 

[bigtex]

I gut em where they fall. I've never seen a gut pile "spook" another deer. In fact I've killed deer, gutted them and gone back and killed another deer standing beside the gut pile.

 

[BSK]

We gut them back at camp, but only because we want to get a live weight for our records.

 

[catman529]

If there is a nearby creek, I drag it there to gut. If not, then wherever is convenient, usually near or at the spot the deer fell.

 

[Bayou Buck]

I always bring mine back to camp and then dump the gut bucket off in a designated location.

 

[Brisco Darlin]

I gut em where they fall. I've never seen a gut pile "spook" another deer. In fact I've killed deer, gutted them and gone back and killed another deer standing beside the gut pile.

same here.

 

[pressfit]

I have gutted them in the evening and by morning you couldnt tell where the gut pile had been...I shot one, one evening, hoping for another I didnt climb down to get it.. a few minutes later a buzzard had already lit beside it...LOL

 

[Football Hunter]

I gut em where they fall. I've never seen a gut pile "spook" another deer. In fact I've killed deer, gutted them and gone back and killed another deer standing beside the gut pile.

same here.

Me too,put a camera on a gut pile,you'll be surprised what you will see.

 

[BlountArrow]

In Pennsylvania you have to gut it where it falls. Always thought that was a pretty lame law. I still hunt up there every year some and it is incredibly inconvenient to me when I could hang it back at camp and do the deed.

 

[KENBOB10]

It don't matter to me. Wherever my son wants to gut mine is fine with me.

 

[Deer Assassin]

where it falls

 

[TN Larry]

Right where it falls unless there is water very conventiently by.

 

[Jcalder]

I used to drag mine out before gutting. Than I realized the only one I was hurting was myself. I know gut where they fall. From what I've seen it doesn't hurt them. If anything it brings in a coyote. And I can kill those too.

 

[Dbllunger]

Right where they fall. I set up a cam on a gut pile a few years ago and posted the pics on here. It attracted hawks, buzzards, deer, coyote and everything else imaginable within 24 hours and didn't alter the deer traffic at all as far as I could tell.

 

[Bone Collector]

Where they fall, unless it makes it easier and is convenient to move it to another area.

 

[monsterbuck07]

In a low spring on our land. More of a tradition than anything else.

 

[Dbllunger]

Found the pics: starting 5 hours after the kill

 

[catman529]

In Pennsylvania you have to gut it where it falls. Always thought that was a pretty lame law. I still hunt up there every year some and it is incredibly inconvenient to me when I could hang it back at camp and do the deed.

PA has the most number of dumb game laws I have heard of.

 

[barkscaler]

On the spot.

 

[Hill Country Hunter]

Why would so many of you contaminate water or and water ways with fecal matter and rotting animal parts??? What if someone else uses it as a water source? For that matter, what could be more gross than seeing strings of entrails floating by in clear running water--or even worse--in hazy, muddy water where you don't know what else is down in that putrid stream?

 

[MattR]

Gut? Cut the back straps out and the horns off and back in the truck before someone sees me if the shot woke them up!

Where we hunt is within 5 mins of our barn so we normally take it there to gut unless it runs into a area that takes to longer than. normal to drag out which is unusual

HAHA!!!

 

[KPH]

Why would so many of you contaminate water or and water ways with fecal matter and rotting animal parts??? What if someone else uses it as a water source? For that matter, what could be more gross than seeing strings of entrails floating by in clear running water--or even worse--in hazy, muddy water where you don't know what else is down in that putrid stream?

We need to teach the fish to quit crapping in the water.

 

[redblood]

in my backyard when i get home.

 

[Poor redneck]

Where they fall.

 

[Marlin308]

I can't remember the last time I gutted (field dressed) a deer. I just throw them on the tailgate of my truck and cut right down their spine, then pull/push the skin back to remove all the meat. Cut out the backstraps first, then move to the hind quarters and remove all muscle groups, then take the shoulder off along with any neck meat that's salvagable. Then skillfully remove the tenderloin without puncturing the stomach cavity or intestines. Flip over and repeat. Drag carcass into woods. Simple, fast and easy.

 

[mike243]

I would never wash a deer out in any creek that wasn't pure enuf that I wouldnt drink the water,how many cows have waded out & took a crap & pissed in the water where you hunt?I prefer to take them away from my stand if I plan on hunting it again in a few days,have seen buzzards clean a gut pile up in les than 2 hrs in Cumberland county

 

[Mike Belt]

About half and half. Sometimes I haul them out and sometimes I gut them on the spot. I'm not so worried about a gut pile spooking incoming deer but rather the coyotes it may draw doing so.

 

[Pic IN the Casa]

I gut em where they fall. I've never seen a gut pile "spook" another deer. In fact I've killed deer, gutted them and gone back and killed another deer standing beside the gut pile.

same here.

Me too,put a camera on a gut pile,you'll be surprised what you will see.

^^^^ this.

 

[tailchaser]

Right where it falls.