Deer & Deer Hunting

DO GUT PILES SCARE DEER?

It’s an age-old question among whitetail hunters: field-dress the deer where it dropped, or drag it far and away from the hunting area?

We asked the Deer & Deer Hunting Facebook fan base to provide their thoughts on gut piles and deer sightings.

Here’s what your fellow hunters had to say.

Stephen Morgan, Va. Animals die in the woods all the time.

I had a gut pile about 40 yards from my stand and had a smaller buck running a doe. They got about 10 yards from it, stopped, and then looked at it (both buck and doe). They

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