has anyone ever heard of this? a good friend and one of the guys that hunts southern il. with me says that he believes that gut piles can attract bucks for various reasons. he says that he often finds scrapes next to gut piles the next morning after he field dresses a deer there. i just wonder if it's really a scrape, or just disturbed ground from cayotes fighting over the feast! he's pretty addament about this. i just wonder if he's eaten to much road kill or what! i can actually see the possibility of this happening for various reasons in my mind, but have i eaten to much road kill, too? anybody ever hear of this phenomonom?
30poundr
wow!
Never seen a scrape nearby, but I have seen them walk by one and it's doesn't seem to bother them either way. If it's a buck gut pile, maybe it's the man-parts and glands in the pile that drive them to make a scape nearby? That is possible.
Dave B.
Dave B.
I don't know about being an attractant, but I don't think they repel the deer either. We leave ours wherever we dress them, and on more than one occasion I've seen deer there the next deer. One year, we ended up with 2 gut piles about 20 yards apart from different days. Typically though, there's not much left after the first night.
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