PAHUNTER21

Well.. I know a simple search would turn up my answer, but who likes to do that anyway?

In my experience, I have never had a gut pile adversely effect my hunting. Have my experiences been purely coincedential? I keep reading different posts about gut piles scaring away deer.....

What do you guys think?

cardeer

No I never had it effect the area.

jetblast

nope,

I've seen deer walk near them without even a flinch.

nubo

I've ad deer come up to gut piles and smell them ,but they don't seem to be bothered in the least .So I'd say no is your answer.

nubo

Bowtech9

No, in fact I shot a deer standing over a gut pile.

rattlem

In my area coyotes don't leave them lay long enough for the deer to ever no they were there.

Pa Trophy Man

I've never had a probelm with it.

JimboHunter1

Never had a problem with it either.

Blodg

I don't know if it was the gut pile or just the general disturbance that goes with tracking, gutting, and dragging a deer but I have never had luck hunting the same stand the day after harvesting a deer.

The first time I tried it there were so many crows coming to the gut pile that it had the whole area "*****ed", not even birds or squirrels were out. Only tried it 3 times altogether and never saw a deer the next day, could have been coincidence?

sprintflyer

We have bears and packs of coyotes in my neck of the woods. I don't think it is the gut piles but the scavengers that come to them that scare the deer out of the area for a day or two.