Gut Piles

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Out hunting with my buddy at his brothers place today. He almost had an 8 point but it vanished too quickly to get a shot. Then a button buck came out and stood around long enough that he decided to fill his antlerless tag, ( he thought it was a doe). One shot at about 75 yds. with a Marlin lever in 444 Marlin did the trick. Dragged it downhill to his brothers place, I gutted it for him in return for some ground venison. Gut pile is near the edge of the woods by his brothers place and he's gonna put a trail cam out there tonight. Could be almost anything up there.... Raccoons, fox, coyotes, or whatever. Stay tuned.
 
I am heading back to Washington State tomorrow morning and pulled the trail camera off out gut pile spot.
Took the DS card to my sons house and checked it out. The fishers were wotlrking it over nearly nightly.
A red fox worked on it regularly, the coyotes were a little skiddish at first then showed up regularly.
A Redtail Hawk ate on it several times. The ravens were there almost every day. One deer passed between the camera and the gut pile. A nice buck, a small spike and several does passed through with in the trail cam sight.
One night a fox came yo the gut pile while a fisher was on it, the fisher climbed the oak tree I used as a back drop and the fox put it's front feet up on the tree like a coon hound does when you tree a coon.
When I get home I will down load some pictures to share with you guys.
 
huntsman said:
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.
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Grassman avoids trail cams...:uhoh:
 
We have been doing gut pile trail cams for the last three or four years. The fishers and foxes are usually the first ones to eat off of them. It takes about a week for the coyotes to show up on the camera and they are skiddish at first. After a few days of comeing close they will then dine on what you leave them.
When we butcher the deer we take all of the fat & trimmings down and dump them at the gut pile. The legs, leg bones cut up about 4 to 5 inches the same with the ribs & spine. The head goes down there to.
A redtail hawk was eating on the neck section of the head. In one video it tried to carry the head off but coildn't lift it off of the ground.
In one video a fisher carried off one of the legs.
It definatly is a good watch seeing your scraps going to a good cause.
 
When I get back to Washington State I will set my trail cams up and see if I can get some cougar pictures.
 
Update to my previous post, ( almost forgot about this thread). Gut pile was gone in 2 or 3 nights and then my buddy discovered that the trail cam batteries were just about dead. He would have E-mailed me some pix and I was gonna post them. Oh well. I promised an update and sadly this is it.
 
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We dropped off three deer hides off down to Sivco tanning place down below Bath NY (canasteo) at the end of last years deer season. They just got them done last Friday.
With the foxes and coyotes on video we set some traps up on the active gut pile we have. My brother has his trapping license so he will see if he can harvest a couple of them.
We set up the traps and a trail cam to see how they react to the the traps and he should have then on video if he catches anything.

The hides we picked up are nice. I have two tanned.
One for our extra recliner in the living room and one to hand on the wall.up.in our gun room/my grandsons bed room.

We will check the traps around 4"30 in the morning before we head to Ithace to fly back to Washington State.
 
Have a safe trip back home. See you when you come back. Was nice hunting with you again even though we didn't get a deer this year. It was nice to meet Mason as well and hope to see him again in the coming years.
 
One morning about 8:00am, after shooting a large doe in open pasture, I gutted her and loaded her in truck to haul her to the processor. Within minutes vultures were everywhere; about 25-30 of them. Went out for lunch and returned mid afternoon. The pile was picked clean....Amazing! Wish I would have set up a camera.
 
A few days ago someone shot a deer out in a pasture over by Marsh Pond and gutted it out there. When we drive by it there were about twenty-five crows on it, there was two aldult Bald Eagles and a inmature Bald Eagle hanging on the outskirts of the crows waiting for thier turn on tje tidbits.
 
Shanghai McCoy said:
^^^
As the old saying states, nothing in nature is wasted...
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I watch a lot of true muder shows. One of my favorites is
"The First 48"
Then Fear Thy Neighbor
Forensic Files
Snapped
and a few others.

A couple of days ago on one of the shows a guy picked a woman up, took her out in the country where he raped her then beat her pretty bad.she left a mile long blood trail to where she expired.

When she was found several days later they said she had worm like insects on her. AKA maggots.

Truely nothing goes to waste in the wild.
A few years ago on one of the shows some one gound a human skull. When they investicated the scene they found human bones vlose to a mile away
From where they found the skull.
The animals had a feast on that body just like the do on our gut piles and dead deer that got wounded and never recovered.
What isn't eaten rots and fertilizes the ground.
Everything goes full circle in the natural world.
 
The only "leftovers" from the critters are bones. Few weeks ago I was just hiking around some state land here and as I crossed a small meadow in the middle of the woods I was seeing bones scattered all around in high grass. Finally found most of a deer skull; the scavengers had a feast for a while and the bones got scattered all over the place. I was less than 200 yards from a highway and figured this deer may have been hit by a vehicle and made it that far into the woods before expiring. Everything was picked pretty clean. Skull wasn't completely clean yet but I put it up on a tree for a photo. Mother nature pretty much recycles everything full circle like Highland Lofts mentioned. IMG_0344.JPG ..
 
I am ready to take off out of North Carolina to seattle and will not get home until around 11 pm tonight.
I will be taking tomorrow off and will see if I can load the videos on to my phone then post the better ones.

The video of the fox with his front feet up on the tree like a coon hound and the fisher up the tree on the other side is a neat video.
Plus there is a video of tjree coyotes in tje same frame.
 
Highland Lofts said:
I am ready to take off out of North Carolina to seattle and will not get home until around 11 pm tonight.
I will be taking tomorrow off and will see if I can load the videos on to my phone then post the better ones.

The video of the fox with his front feet up on the tree like a coon hound and the fisher up the tree on the other side is a neat video.
Plus there is a video of tjree coyotes in tje same frame.
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awesome! I’d love to see them.
 
My son has a bunch of gut pile pictures and videos. There are two bitch coyotes. One is missing some of her left front legs and the other is missing some of her right front legs. They always came in with one other coyote.
 
I'd like to of been there for the snow. I bet Mason a hundred bucks that there would be snow up to his knees.
Lucky him.
We just got off the jet and got our baggage and waiting for the shuttle bus to take us close home away from the cesspool seattle.
 
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