Gut Piles

[Highland Lofts]

I mentioned about gut piles on another thead and started this thread so that other thread doesn't get hijacked.

For the last four years we have been putting trail cams to record what all visits the gut piles at my sons place.
Every gut pile has had coyotes, foxes, racoons lots of crows and occasionally a fisher.
The gut pile from my brothers doe he shot behind his house last deer season had a neighbors house cat eating on it besides the usual coyotes, fox and crows.
Yesterday I bought a new trail camera to set up a on the gut pile from the deer I shoot this year.
I will get some gut pile pictures from my son and add them to this thread and post some new 2020 pictures as we get them. Our rifle deer season opens up this comeing Saturday.

Yesterday I bought a $30 trail cam a $8 pack of batteries and $12 - 32gb SD card from Walmart for me dedicated gut pile camera.

 

[buck460XVR]

I've seen everything from 'yotes to coons to possums to mice eating on gut piles. I have also seen other deer eating stomach contents from gut piles.

 

[jmorris]

We get lots of buzzards around ours.

 

[Captcurt]

Last year I gutted a doe in an open pasture. I went back 2 hours later and there was a Bald Eagle on it. Pretty cool. It let me ride my ATV within 40 yards of it.

 

[J-Bar]

“Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms.”

—-Josey Wales

 

[huntsman]

A couple of seasons ago my son killed a buck on our property, we decided to hang a camera at the pile.

A day or so after I was out at the woodpile and I could hear the yotes yapping and carrying on back towards the pile, next day I went to pull the card and was surprised to find the pile untouched.

I ended up pulling camera and when my son came back the following weekend he said the pile was gone, for whatever reason nothing touched the pile while the camera was there.

 

[Chuck R.]

We occasionally get bald eagles in addition to the usual suspects.

Folks often forget they're part scavenger...

 

[Highland Lofts]

When I worked at a friends 650 cow dairy farm we put the dead cows in the molded silage pile that we took off the bunk silo. The coyotees and bald eagles would eat off of the dead cows until they got covered up. Eagles are a scavenger.

 

[Patocazador]

Some folks down here gut a hog after killing it at night and then sit on the gut pile for several hours. They kill other hogs that come to eat the hog guts. Cannibals!

 

[JDeere]

^^
We have a place we dump and whatever we dump is gone the next morning. Hogs will eat anything...

 

[22250Rem]

That's an interesting concept..... A gut pile cam. Got a couple trail cams here that aren't currently in use. I might just try that for grins.

 

[Meeks36]

Some folks down here gut a hog after killing it at night and then sit on the gut pile for several hours. They kill other hogs that come to eat the hog guts. Cannibals!

Saw a squirrel eating a dead one that my grandfather shot earlier. Not sure why but he hated them getting into his bird seed. I loved it however. Easier when the season came up.

 

[Bush Pilot]

A friend I used to hunt with in with in the Yukon killed a wolverine, a grizzly and two wolves off the same moose gut pile years ago.

 

[sparkyv]

Wow, I'd like to see a pic of that.

a neighbors house cat eating on it besides the usual coyotes, fox and crows.

 

[Highland Lofts]

I will see if my brother still has the SD card from that trail cam.

Over at my sons place the coyotes alway come to the gut piles in pairs.
There are two bitch coyotes that are missing half of a front leg.
One is missing a part of her left front leg and the other is missing part of her right front leg. I will get some gut pile pictures from him this coming week when I stay a night over there.

 

[FL-NC]

All good reasons why I don't leave guts anywhere near my stands.

 

[Hokkmike]

An unusual but interesting thread - thanks.

 

[Thomasss]

Saw a young bald eagle at a gut pile and after he tore something off, he flew to a tree and shared it with mom and dad. They worked that gut pile for over 4 hours until dusk. It was something to really to behold. I really think mom or dad was teaching the kid where to find food up there in the U.P. of Michigan.

 

[caribou]

Very Cool....

Game cams on a gut pile? I never thought of that.....I guess Ill put one on my next pile with the 330 Conibears I usually set.....

 

[Highland Lofts]

Very Cool....

Game cams on a gut pile? I never thought of that.....I guess Ill put one on my next pile with the 330 Conibears I usually set.....

My son has a gut pile I'm sure he has a trail cam on it.
I have a gut pile out back of my brothers place that has a trail cam on. I shot a small doe. Tomorrow we will be cutting up the doe I shot and will put the bones, scrap meat, deer fat and head down there.
My son said there were a couple redtail hawks on his gut pile.
I will see tomorrow if anything hit this one.

 

[Highland Lofts]

We should put some traps at the gut pile, never thought abot doing that.

 

[sourdough44]

When hunting limited size properties, we try to take the deer out whole, then field dress in an open field, away from the hunting stands.

In an open field, the pile is gone very soon.

In the ‘big woods’ or towards the last hunt of the season, anywhere is good.

 

[Highland Lofts]

I took the bones, head and scrap meat out to the gut pile and something has been hitting on it. I readjusted the camera. Maybe tomorrow I will put a couple of leg traps out there.
I will be pulling the camera cards out of my trail cams and see what has been through there since last tuesday.

 

[LoonWulf]

Some folks down here gut a hog after killing it at night and then sit on the gut pile for several hours. They kill other hogs that come to eat the hog guts. Cannibals!

When we were doing cow hunts regularly we pretty often saw pigs scurry away from carcasses. They will also kill and eat smaller live stock given the chance.
Only things that hit gut piles here are pigs, strays, birds, and mongoose.

 

[troy fairweather]

When we were doing cow hunts regularly we pretty often saw pigs scurry away from carcasses. They will also kill and eat smaller live stock given the chance.
Only things that hit gut piles here are pigs, strays, birds, and mongoose.

I didn't know you had mongoose there. And ya pigs will eat anything, my dad said one nearly killed my grandfather.