One of my all time favorite deer hunting memories was when I dropped a buck on opening day, gutted it and hauled it out. Then since we can legally hunt for each other here and we weren’t filled up, I went back to that same stand the next day and had a mother bobcat and her three mostly grown kits come in and eat at that gut pile.
I’m not real sure about a gut pile scaring off other deer either. Reason being I‘d shot a buck early on opening day, gutted it and went back up in my tree stand. A couple hours later I shot another one and it ran over to where that first one with the gut pile was and lay down right there not 20’ away.
