Trail cam over gut pile 12/30/2020

[ratherbhunting]

I put my trial camera over the gut pile and got a bunch of pictures, here are a few of them.

[bushden]

I would have thought deer stayed away

[hiking]

It makes you wonder why the big hoopala about gutting your deer were you are hunting, it might be as good as all the lures they sell.    I spined one and it fell right on the the bait, I gutted him right on the bait pile, I didn't go back for a week but deer had fed on the corn hours after I left ( I left the camera)

[Gobblengrunt]

I always make a big deal about not gutting a deer near my stands.  I put a cam on my 6day buck gut pile and had almost all deer checking it out!

[ratherbhunting]

This is not the first time I have put a trail cam on a gut pile, and every time I do I always get multiple deer on it. 

[delvalhunter]

It doesn’t seem to bother them any differently than them walking past a road kill or anything else dead. They are used to seeing it and can’t differentiate between it being a dead deer/deer guts or some other dead critter in the woods. 

[Nomad]

I have seen deer check out gut piles also, but is this gut pile right near your bait pile?

[Buck154]

2 hours ago, Gobblengrunt said:

I always make a big deal about not gutting a deer near my stands.  I put a cam on my 6day buck gut pile and had almost all deer checking it out!

Every time I put a camera over gut pile or a road kill I get deer. Does not bother them

[Eyesofthewoods]

I don’t think the gut pile thing is that big of a deal.  I’d be more worried with making noise or hunting a stand with bad wind conditions and ruining it for a long period of time.

[tcook8296]

Deer are curious creatures by nature especially immature deer. 

Show me a mature buck on a gut pile and then show me another pic of him coming back. 

I dont like any kind of abnormal scent at my stand. 

Big bucks as well as mature does get very nervous when things change especially scent. Its their main defense. 

Its not easy to kill a mature deer once it knows your stand location and can relate it to danger, it will always be on alert or avoid it at least for that season. 

I dont take the chance. 

Just think sbout that 1 mature doe that everyone has that always blows the woods up. 

She knows when you are there

Edited January 1, 2021 by tcook8296

[bucky]

Yes but it always catches up to her

[tcook8296]

2 hours ago, bucky said:

Yes but it always catches up to her

I can tell you I would spare no expense on a rocket launcher for those hunts

[ratherbhunting]

10 hours ago, Nomad said:

I have seen deer check out gut piles also, but is this gut pile right near your bait pile?

I put bait out, but  all of my stands are about 100 yards away from it,( I put the bait out to bring them into the middle of the property) this deer was shot and died about 125 yards away from the bait pile.

[archer36]

Gut my deer where they fall. 10, 20, 30 yds away. Doesn't matter. The gut pile is gone in a day anyway. 

[toxo]

Cool Pictures The Buck is saying, Is that you Bill?

Edited January 1, 2021 by Dinger