I’m just amazed folks still gut deer for reasons other than lightening the load on a drag or if it’s real hot and you can’t dress them in an hour or so.
I haven’t gutted any of the 150 or so I’ve killed in the last 15 years and the ones I’ve eaten have tasted just fine and nobody else has complained either that I’ve given them away to. Of course I don’t gut shoot them either.
If cleaning them myself, I just leave the guts in the body cavity. If taking to a processor, let them deal with the guts.
I bet some of you still cut the tarsal glands off too as soon as they hit the ground.
