#2283672 - 06/29/08 08:42 PM
Re: Hunting gut piles
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tzone
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Shot a forkie when I was a kid from the gut pile of a buck and a doe my cousin shot the weekend before. No way in hell a gut pile lasts 'til the next morning in these parts anymore.
There are a few guys in our camp that swear that a gut pile will spook a buck, but I don't believe it. The wolves around the pile might though.
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#2283679 - 06/29/08 08:44 PM
Re: Hunting gut piles
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VAnimrod
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No way in hell a gut pile lasts 'til the next morning in these parts anymore.
Ditto.
Though they do draw in foxes, coyotes, crows, 'coons, 'possums, and the occasional bobcat...... all of which can get smoked PDQ...
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#2283690 - 06/29/08 08:52 PM
Re: Hunting gut piles
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firstcoueswas80
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Had a client shoot a buck on Saturday morning back in December. Come sunday morning, I rode my quad till I was about 600 yards from it. Walked up to 400 yards, sure as hell there were two coyotes on the hill. Popped one while he was layin down, clipped the other on the run!
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#2283723 - 06/29/08 09:15 PM
Re: Hunting gut piles
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Tom264
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Sometimes gut piles dont even last a few hours around here.
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#2283765 - 06/29/08 10:03 PM
Re: Hunting gut piles
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Good place to go take a look for bears and wolves in Alberta.
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#2283798 - 06/29/08 10:53 PM
Re: Hunting gut piles
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Shot more than one deer within spitting distance from the gut pile from the day before.
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#2283970 - 06/30/08 05:34 AM
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northern_dave
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The piles don't last long for us either, but I sure don't think they scare deer away. I've seen deer go straight to a gut pile & sniff it before. I'm sure many here have seen the same. Never really considered purposely setting up to watch a pile but at the same time they have never really bothered me either.
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#2283998 - 06/30/08 05:53 AM
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Around here, they (gut piles) are good for bird watching...if you like buzzards 
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#2285926 - 07/01/08 07:12 AM
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We put a trail camera on a gut pile last year hoping to get a pic of a black coyote we had been seeing in the area. Gut pile was left at 11 AM, by 2 PM buzzards had found it, by 5 PM, 20-30 buzzards were on it and I got pics of buzzards eating till well past dark. By 8 PM it appeared to be nothing but clean picked bones, Coyote came in around 11 PM and there was no sign that there had been a gut pile there by 7 AM. What surprised me was a big hog came in about 9 PM and came back a few times, I never knew a hog would have any interest in a gut pile.
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#2285952 - 07/01/08 07:30 AM
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Cant say Ive seen deer at a gut pile but I have hunted over them just to watch the other wildlife. Pine martin and eagles have both been seen.
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#2286073 - 07/01/08 09:22 AM
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From what I've seen, they'll sniff at it, maybe kick it. I don't think that it draws them in or repels them, but it may distract them long enough for you to shoulder your gun or draw your bow.
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#2289091 - 07/02/08 07:22 PM
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gophergunner
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I don't think gut piles scare deer away at all. Deer die in the woods every day. It's all part of the life cycle. Deer are probably more accustomed to this than we realize. I've shot at least two deer off gut piles. One happened this past season. 'Looked over at the gut pile from the forkie I shot in the morning and there was a doe standing right next to it-not alarmed in the least. She ate good too.
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#2289242 - 07/02/08 08:52 PM
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varmintsinc
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If we put a buck down the gut piles are usually gone by the time we pack the deer out and get back. The last one was packed out at night and the next morning at daylight there were just a couple tufts of hair and some dried blood on the rocks, not even any bones. My partner wants a big bear really bad and he plans on sitting on the next gut pile to fill his tag.
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#2289625 - 07/03/08 07:06 AM
Re: Hunting gut piles
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I neck shot a crippled doe that left a lot of blood on the ground where she fell. The next morning I watched some deer sniff the spot and continue on their way, other deer spooked and ran as soon as they caught scent of the blood.
I have also seen deer cross the path I'd walked to get to my stand and pay no attention to my scent trail and other deer jumped and bolted as if they had hit an electric wire.
It seems to me that deer don't all react the same.
I don't leave gut piles in my hunting area.
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#2289849 - 07/03/08 09:23 AM
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There was a cow hunt some 25 years ago in my area and the first day several hunters got into a small batch of 'em. They knocked down 6 or 7 in a small opening in some very dark, thick timber. All ended up in about an area the size of a standard sized pool.
I walked in early the next mornin' having heard about where this shoot took place and spotted the gut piles as they stood out quite easily on the dark timber floor.
I walked up to within about 15 yards of the scene and a very live cow jumped to her feet from right in the middle of these gut piles and bolted through the thick timber at Nascar speeds.
Can't say as I'd discount the experience as unusual, but after observing hundreds of gut piles over the years (others and my own), the only animals I've seen otherwise standing over or around entrails are hunters, yotes, bobcats and ravens or crows.
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#2289912 - 07/03/08 10:01 AM
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On three different occasions that I know of, a buck followed the trail of a hunter directly to the tree stand the hunter was sitting in.
One followed me right to the tree, from behind, and when I turned around to look, the deer was standing at the base of the tree, looking up at me. It was an eight point, but he got away before I could turn around and shoot.
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#2291201 - 07/03/08 10:40 PM
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I've spooked does lying within yards of gutpiles taken the same or previous day. Had a buck grunting behind my stand last year around the gutpile of a doe I'd shot the day before. I also have blood trails left across the meadow in front of my blind from when I drag out deer, and other deer don't seem bothered at all when they cross it.
I could see bucks being attracted to the scent from the urine in another gut pile, whether it was another buck's or a doe in estrus. Hadn't really thought of it before, but it makes sense...
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#2291372 - 07/04/08 04:57 AM
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shaman
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The only thing that would make me err to the side of caution in this is that the coyotes and feral dogs that are common in our area are going to be attracted to the gut piles. They are a major PITA for deer.
Most of the time I've shot deer, I just flop them as-is in the truck and pull them back to the house and gut there on the meat pole. The time I loose waiting for the truck to show up is made up by having an efficient set-up. From shot-to-processor is usually under 2 hours. Having said that, the past three years, almost every deer I've bagged has wound up down in the bottom of the holler where the truck won't reach. I end up gutting in place to lighten the load. If I plan on hunting the spot again that season, I'll bag up the viscera and take it with me.
There is a secondary use for gutpiles: put it out in the middle of the field, pull back to the treeline and then watch what comes in. The only only thing better than driving home with a chest full of frozen venison is having that and a coyote tail waiving off the antenna.
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