Dead deer?

[coueschaser3]

I have been thinking about this recently due to me and a buddy of mine planning on sitting the same blink this weekend. I have alot of bucks coming in continuously but wondered if one of us gets one will the remains/smell spook other deer out of the area? How far should the animal be moved to prevent that if it will. problem is its in the bottom of a nasty little canyon and im tring to figure out if 50yds will do it or just totally out of that canyon. Or if it will bug em at all. any ideas or input?

[Non-Typical Solutions]

Knock the first one down and then worry about about the second one.........can't really say, never been lucky enough to have to worry about that. I would suspect that the noise and commotion would probably be more detremental than the smell of the gut pile, but really have nothing to base that opinion on....

[redline410]

CC3,

 

A few years back my old man and uncle had tags in 22. Opening morning my dad and I sat a canyon rim while my uncle and cousin wandered off elsewhere. He shot a decent buck across that canyon and after the better part 3hours just going over there to get him (not so much because of horizontal distance but vertical), we decided to gut and bone him right where he lay. Next morning, we sit the same spot with my uncle- and he taps a buck off that wall. We took the same route to get that one and walked right past the remains from the previous morning. That second buck went down less than 30 yards from the first one. I don't think the gore affected him too much.......Again though, Neck makes a pretty good point. Might want to whack one before worrying too much about what it'll do to another.........Good luck this weekend smoothe- hope it works out for ya......

[ac guy]

Hunted a corn field once with a buddy. We shot one, and let it lay. A few minutes later, more came out in the same area, and couldn't care less about the dispatched carcass. They only spook once predators come in to feed on the remains. Shoot one, let em lay, deer could care less. The only problem you'll have this week, is you'll have to clean, and ice the animal quickly.

[coueschaser3]

Thanks for the input. Well see how it goes.

[ThomC]

I have been thinking about this recently due to me and a buddy of mine planning on sitting the same blink this weekend. I have alot of bucks coming in continuously but wondered if one of us gets one will the remains/smell spook other deer out of the area? How far should the animal be moved to prevent that if it will. problem is its in the bottom of a nasty little canyon and im tring to figure out if 50yds will do it or just totally out of that canyon. Or if it will bug em at all. any ideas or input?

 

Second guy needs a bear tag.

[Coues 'n' Sheep]

 

 

You should be alright until the Yotes get on it..... then you won't get another chance to kill. We had that happen on a spring last year on the elk hunt.... Those dang Yotes cost me a pretty good bull that was three steps from getting an arrow when those dirty dogs showed up!!!

[Coach]

I shot a buck one year and a doe kinda walked over to it to figure out why it was acting so ... dead... then walked off. Last year in the area I was hunting, a guy had killed a buck on a little knoll, and for two days afterward most of the deer I saw were on that same knoll, some less than 50 yds from the gut pile.

 

But like Gino mentioned, once the dogs and bears get in there it's a whole different story.

 

 

[couesdog]

I found a lion killed deer that was less then an hour old. I sat on the deer for about eight hours waiting for the lion to return. During that time- two deer walked within 30 yards of the dead deer. The lion never returned- I think I must have spooked it off the kill.

[coueschaser3]

Looks like if it happens by some chance it shouldnt be a big problem, not many dogs where its at....but bears are around. wouldnt even be able to shoot a bear on a gut pile though cuz im huntin over some Deer caine.....i beleive that would fall under baiting for the deer cane part. crappy.

[Mangum]

I have wondered the same thing a few times.

 

Good info. from everyones posts.