The reason to leave the guts in is not to have to to a "holiday on ice" show on the side of a mountain. Turning a Bull elk around on a 30 degree slope is not a one man job, so if you pee in the nest, so to say, you have to live with it. Nothing frustrates me more than doing a Buster Keaton flop into a big pile of bloody lungs....
With bears around, keeping the odors down a bit is not such an awful idea, either. JMO, Dutch.
