What’s the consensus. We have a bunch of ol goobers in a club who think if you gut a deer in the woods, it’s gonna spook the deer or establish coyotes in the area and drive off deer? Consequently, they “encourage” you to bring the deer back to camp and gut it there (no meat pole) or just take it straight to the processor. Just seems so much more inconvenient to me (I process my own deer) rather than just gutting it where it falls (unless it’s in a green field-then I would move it a couple hundred yard away). If you gut em back at camp, then you gotta go dump it somewhere. Anyone else run into these debates?
That has been disproven so many times it is not funny. Nowadays they are weighed back at camp and gutted, in the past it was a long drag back to the car/truck and it was gutted a short distance from where it dropped.
