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Rick · Post by **Rick** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:20 pm

Will deer keep using trails that a dead deer has been lying on for a couple of day?
You help is appreciated....

Rick

Pydpiper · Post by **Pydpiper** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:35 pm

Tough call, the deer will go where they feel safe, I don't think a deer associates the smell of death with danger. That smell will bring in predators though and that will disrupt a pattern.

Mike P · Post by **Mike P** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:43 pm

Pydpiper wrote: That smell will bring in predators though and that will disrupt a pattern.

That Piper guy gets smarter every day!

agingcrossbower · Post by **agingcrossbower** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:11 pm

I had a relation of mine sit a gun stand where a proven trail was. He shot a nice doe and gutted it out right on that trail. Next year that trail was there no more. Maybe a one time thing? I'll never do something like that.

longwinters · Post by **longwinters** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:29 pm

I have had many times where I shot a deer, gutted it out, and other deer walked right by the gut pile and never skipped a beat. I had one time where I shot a deer in the morning and dragged it up by my pop up ,gutted it, and let it lay there for the rest of the day as I did not want to quit hunting (yes it was very cold out).

Had other deer come right through and did not even look.

Long

bbbwb · Post by **bbbwb** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:37 pm

2x Piper

bbbwb

mtbyak · Post by **mtbyak** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 6:31 pm

Last year where I gutted my buck, I went back the next day as I had lost my knives & not 10 feet away from the gut pile was a fresh scrap that was not there before

Shoot Straight
Kirk

ninepointer · Post by **ninepointer** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 8:30 am

Rick wrote:Will deer keep using trails that a dead deer has been lying on for a couple of day?
You help is appreciated....

Rick

If otherwise the spot has good potential to be productive, I would not worry about the dead deer. Any disruption of patterns can likely be measured in days, not weeks.

As a general rule, after I kill a deer I drag it to a "safe" spot for field dressing, away from where I do my shooting. Again, I'm only worried about the short-term impact on deer behaviour.

LondonDave · Post by **LondonDave** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:40 am

Like others have mentioned....The Buck I shot this year was about 5 yards from the gut pile of the doe my neighbour shot the night before.

Dave

perrysbirds · Post by **perrysbirds** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:46 am

Id say yes the deer will use the same trails!

Rick · Post by **Rick** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:54 pm

Thanks guys.
I hunt a real nice spot for the last 9 years and have gotten a nice size deer a year out.
However I climb into my stand last Sunday evening and there was a button buck lying about 20 yards in the bush and on the main trail.
It was a gut shot from a arrow and whom ever did it didn't track enough to find it.
Wasn't sure if I should remove it or leave it there.
I will check it this week and remove it still there and hopefully carry on hunting.
There has been no movement there for the past 2 weeks which really concerned me.

Thanks for your input and happy hunting!!!

B-Logger · Post by **B-Logger** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 8:49 am

Just to add to the confusion, a couple years ago we shot 3 bucks; all at or very close to the place where the first one was shot. They had paid no attention to the previous activity.

Last year I shot a buck and about 2 hours later another buck came on the same runway. He stopped dead in his tracks when he got to where the other buck dropped. Smelled a bit and then walked on. But did he stop to smell the other deer, the blood or the human smell? Not sure how you could determine that.

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