Gut piles
11-11-2004, 08:24 AM
#12
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Canton MI USA
Posts: 118
RE: Gut piles
If it's an area you are going to continue to hunt over, maybe you can pull it a short way in the valley at least out of your main shooting lane if that's a factor.
But with regards to gut piles, where we hunt in the UP of Michigan, gut piles tend to disappear very quickly. Last year a shot a doe around 10 in the morning and gutted her where she laid then dragged her out. When I came back out around 2:30 or so that afternoon I went back to get my arrow that I had left. Between the birds and coyotes everything was basically gone. I did see one coyote come back around 4 or so from my treestand, but still had a spike or forkhorn come in shortly after that. Deer didn't seem to care at all.
But with regards to gut piles, where we hunt in the UP of Michigan, gut piles tend to disappear very quickly. Last year a shot a doe around 10 in the morning and gutted her where she laid then dragged her out. When I came back out around 2:30 or so that afternoon I went back to get my arrow that I had left. Between the birds and coyotes everything was basically gone. I did see one coyote come back around 4 or so from my treestand, but still had a spike or forkhorn come in shortly after that. Deer didn't seem to care at all.
