Excited to say i got my 3rd ever deer yesterday. I tried to get a doe back during the doe season in Oct but I just never got a chance at one and so then rifle season comes along and after passing on a spike and small 8 point I finally got my doe. I do have a question about something rather strange I found i had made my shot at 50 yards and got a perfect double lung shot like I normally do well the deer did a roll and into a thorn bush (damn you deer) well i got it outta there and it was getting dark so I just hoisted it over my shoulder down the hill to where are bridge is and I gutted it there BUT I noticed as soon as I made my cut up at the top and started working down that inherently there was poo in there.. I never knicked the guts or shot them so what caused there to be a mound of poo? Also she had a healthy diet of corn
It sounds like you moved the deer a little ways from where it died to where you gutted it. This and the additional time the deer carcass spent ungutted wouldve allowed gas to build up plenty of pressure inside its stomach rumen etc. Then you go around moving it, throwing it over your shoulders and you have a recipe for a mess especially since it looks like it was a young animal with easily torn soft tissue. Couldāve been a bullet frag too but that also wouldāve also been made worse by the time spent ungutted and the move to creek location. Unless your deer dies on your neighbors front lawn the first thing you do is gut it-deer guts are light and easy to move. I donāt even tag a big game animal until the guts are out or the quarters/meat is off the carcass-might be against the law but I donāt care. Not much worse than associating that smell with your meat! Also always turn them with sternum facing up before you delicately make just enough incision into abdominal cavity to fit your two fingers and knife to unzip-this makes the stomach/rumen pull away from layer of hide and muscle you want to cut through. If theyāre on their sides when you make this first cut you will usually accidentally pop the stomach.
