Greycat Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 I have had a couple of discussions lately about field dressing your harvested deer and what is best done about the organs and entrails. We have had an exploding coyote population and more attacks on the local deer by coyote packs and aggressive singles.One surprising opinion that I can’t get out of my head is the guy that prescribes that any hunter that doesn’t bury the remains is lazy and doesn’t care about increased coyote attacks on deer or the exploding coyote population. I am not sure it is always practical and even if buried, I am sure coyotes would sniff it out and dig them up anyway. In addition I don’t know that there is any evidence the gorging on deer remains entices more deer attacks than would normally occur.So are we lazy and uncaring and does any of this have merit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave S Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 No merit IMO. A coyote has an icnredible sense of smell and if one caught wind of entrails buried or not, they'll dig them back up.Saying someone is lazy for not burying the entrails is just plain naive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brassman Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 My take on the subject is that gut piles have been feeding animals for hundreds of years. so what! Any healthy deer can escape yotes anyday, so no I'm not going to rent a backhoe to rip up the frozen tundra that is northern Minn in deer season just so I can bury the guts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pascooter94 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 why not hunt over the guts? we do and do take our share of them, but that is us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonBo Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 It's ridiculous to bury a gut pile. The larger animals that may feed off it will just dig it up, and you may keep the smaller ones from getting an easy meal. What about all the birds that feed on it?It's all about the cycle of life. Food chain. Don't deny any of the woodland critters access to this natural food source.Bury it so other people don't have to see it? I certainly wouldn't leave a gut pile in the neighbors yard but anywhere else and it will be gone in few days, as nature intended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor_guy Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 NOT!!!! How does this even come up???Some of the most entertaining moments of deer hunting occur a day or two after you taged one and you are sitting in the same stand watching the birds and other critters eating away at the gut pile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold_blood Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 no sense in burying them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rippinlip Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Don't bury it, the gut pile from my buck I shot this year was gone within 2 days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icehousebob Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Burying them is a waste of time. I gutted a buck in the Black Hills once, and unloaded my rifle and opened a beer. Four feet away from me, two Gray Jays were already picking the fat chunks off the pile. As for the coyotes, they make great targets for the rest of the hunt. I've seen gut piles disappear overnight in Pine County. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phred52 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Icehouse, You didn't have a hunting buddy that was the 'butt' of a cruel joke involving a little too much brew, that gut pile and a forked stick, did you?? Phred52 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harvey lee Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 My guts will stay where they roll out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icehousebob Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Phred, that's an old joke but its still a good one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkjkoda Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Why!!! Bury them unless you dig a hole to china!! The coyotes or fox will just dig them up!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACKJACK Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 I've actually set up trail cameras over gut piles, very interesting!!! Coyotes, foxes, cats, crows, hawks, they keep coming until its all gone!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maros91 Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 Don't bury them. There are gone with in days anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Christianson Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 Good luck digging a hole during muzzleloader and late archery season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kr8r.tom Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 then you'll have to get liscenced to carry a cased shovel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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