Field dress where they lay or nay?

[TedKennedy]

I killed a doe yesterday morning. Gutted her where she fell. Drug her 100-150yds to where I could get the truck. Walked to the truck, drove to deer (ten-fifteen minute max).

Crows were already on my deer, hadn't started eating on it yet. I got her skinned and on ice, had to stay there at the farm for the rest of the day, and saw buzzards over the gut pile area for a very short bit. I didn't walk over there, but I bet they had that cleaned up by 9AM.

 

[meatGrinder]

Here's a game cam pic taken not even 8 hours from where a deer gut pile lay earlier that day.

 

[Matt Giroux]

Me either, but they were closing in within minutes of putting that deer down. I could hear them getting closer. I wasn't going to chance having to shoot a deer and leave it to them.

Had this happen in Kansas when my buddy and I were hunting. Dropped a doe right at end of shooting light, got her gutted by dark and were taking her out of the back 40 to the two track where the truck was. By the time we got her in the truck I dropped 2 coyotes with my bolt action and a 1000 lumen flashlight...if thats any indication of how close and persistent they were

 

[O4L]

Had this happen in Kansas when my buddy and I were hunting. Dropped a doe right at end of shooting light, got her gutted by dark and were taking her out of the back 40 to the two track where the truck was. By the time we got her in the truck I dropped 2 coyotes with my bolt action and a 1000 lumen flashlight...if thats any indication of how close and persistent they were

Sounds like a good way to go coyote hunting. Just go drag an animal carcass around the woods after dark.

 

[elwoodtrix]

 

[Matt Giroux]

Sounds like a good way to go coyote hunting. Just go drag an animal carcass around the woods after dark.

That it is indeed!

 

[dlbleak]

I wire the carcass to a tpost or fence post and do a little coyote eradication.

 

[boomer mooner]

I shot a nilgai in South Texas a few years back. Field dressed it there, winched it into the truck and took it to the barn. Went back by not 4 hours later hoping to see a coyote. Buzzards had already been there and the only thing left of the gut pile was a pile of grass from the stomach!

 

[TedKennedy]

I shot a nilgai in South Texas a few years back. Field dressed it there, winched it into the truck and took it to the barn. Went back by not 4 hours later hoping to see a coyote. Buzzards had already been there and the only thing left of the gut pile was a pile of grass from the stomach!

Nice! You get drawn on a hunt or go to one of the big ranches? How was the meat?