did i screw up?

I whacked a doe last week & had to drag her back over to the land where I shot her. I gutted her out near where the deer come onto the property from across the street. when i walked to my stand this week, I definitely caught wind of the "dead" smell. do you think the deer notice this or will they just walk by? I didn't see anything out on Monday, & was wondering about that. I did go back & cover the reminants w/dirt.

 

I have heard from several places including Dr. Jamed Kroll North American Whitetail Magazine it don't bother the deer one bit.

 

I'm with Tribal buddy, I killed a deer two years ago that was 10' from a pig I had killed a few days earlier. No problems there.

 

good question, i really dont know.... i guess the deer dont know what died, was gutted there cause they prob dont ever smell their insides... not sure if that make sense or not. but its not like you left your sweaty gym clothes, part of nature i would say

 

Only if a yote or some other animal is there for a meal.

 

Hey don't worry about it. I have taken a deer within 20yards of a week old gut pile. They are used to things dieing and that smell. I can not believe that the yotes did not get this by now though. Good luck in that spot Hank.

 

Good luck next time you get out Hank. Hopefully you will see some!

 

Last year during rifle season I killed a doe in the morning at 8:00 am.
At 3:30 I killed a buck out of the same stand and he was 5' from her gut pile.

My buddy just called me with a report of his hunt this morning because he was hunting in one of my spots. He saw 12 deer, and eveyone of them walked by the spot where I field dress the does I shot last week.

I don't think it matters

 

I've seen them walk up to them and smell them then walk away.

 

I shot my first buck worth mounting while he had his nose buried in the gut pile of a deer I'd shot the day before.

 

:huh: :huh:

 

been my experience that animals generally pay little attention to gut piles and such