The open week for moose is past now (Oct. 20-26 in this area). Some of my chores this coming week are to go clean up the 2 gut piles, hide etc left by a couple of successful hunters. They were left on the local trail where people walk their dogs and such. This type of ignorance probably causes more harm to our sport than anything else I know. Pretty much everyone hunts around here and it pi$$e$ us off. Imagine how it affects someone who is a non hunter. The safety aspect given this is Grizzly country is a no brainer. What do some people use for brains?
Disposing of gut pile etc.
- Thread starter Bland
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What are people doing walking their dogs during hunting season, in a hunting area. The gut pile and hide from my wife's whitetail was gone by the next evening. I drop the guts where the animal falls and nature looks after it, but I am not in Grizzly country.
- Location
- Oil Country
Leave it for the Grizzley's and Coyotes. They get hungry too, 
I usually drag the animal at least off a trail a few yards before dropping the gut pile, but it's really not a big deal unless it's near private property. As has been said, nature cleans it up just fine. If you happen to make a mess on a rise or embankment, that's your coyote bait!
They walk their dogs because it is a free country and hunters don't have priority to the land just because it is hunting season. And notice he said the gut piles were left "on a local trail where people walk their dogs and such..." as opposed to "out in the bush".
M12shooter
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- East St. Paul, mb
Around most places gut piles don't last more than a day. Magpies, ravens, eagles, coyoyes, etc....make short work of these scavenger goldmines.
Pathfinder
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Northeast Ontario
The last gut pile I laid out didnt' last 24hours....but If I was hunting off a public walking trail (which would never happen) I suppose I would toss it a few feet into the bush...at least out of sight.
What I have seen is folks returning to town with their game, whereupon they clean it. They then go to a nearby logging road or quiet area and dump the remains out of the back of their truck. I have seen remains dumped like this within 100 yards of residences. I suspect this is the type of thing the OP was mentioning.
We have no big game where I live so gutting a few birds is no big deal but I've saw guys shoot 25 or 30 Canada geese and breast them only. They disposed of them in a hedge where they were found. It made headline news here as nonhunters assumed they were shot and wasted. The point I'm trying to make is out of sight, out of mind. Us hunters don't need to give any more ammo whatsoever for the NON crowd.
Mighty Peace
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Land of the Mighty Peace
It will be gone within a day. Must have hunting on the trail system and dropped animals on the trail. If not, a little respect would of been nice but there are always a few with no RESPECT for others.
As mentioned, our group dresses out the moose or elk where they fall. Drag the animal back to camp, finish skinning, then haul the hide and leg portions cut off away from camp a couple miles.
blasted_saber
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- A blue part of Ontario
Why the **** would someone actually take the guts with the animal out of the bush?
OK perhaps a little more information is needed here. The gut piles were left within a 100 yds of a permanent residence. Accepted practice is take it across the lake where nobody lives or somewhere else further away. This was just rude. People live here and walk their dogs regularly which they have every right to do hunting season or not. When I want a grizzly working on a carcass within 100 yards of a permanent residence I will let you know. Of course the scavengers will get to it but it takes a lot longer than a day or two.
^This, in the past I and the people I've hunted with have always just left the gut piles in the field or pasture where the animal was gutted-usually the same place it was shot. Coyotes and other scavengers take care of them in no time. There aren't many black bears around though, and certainly no grizzly bears. They certainly should have taken that into account before leaving the remains on a public trail.
