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Curious: what did you use? I mean, type of rifle, cartridge, etc. And at what range, more or less?
My first, about 45 yrs go, was at a miserly 125 yds with a 7X57 Mauser chambering in a nifty& very "Euro" Brno/CZ rifle I now dearly wish I'd kept, but I sold it because I'm a lefty and it was a righty. "So what?" I say now, but back then I was a young purist...
Anyhow, the details are always interesting, huh?
Keep it up.
Btw, regarding guts, past year we tried a new gutting technique on our whitetail (this time @ ≈275 yds with a 250-3000 Ackley Imp.) that Field & Stream (I think) had an article on.
Essentially, you don't open the animal up at all. You cut each limb at the "elbow joints", lop off the head and then remove the front legs (real easy on a deer of course) then work off the rear legs, and then just go for the sirloins and backstraps, (and also go after them if you really want the ribs...) but then just leave the undisturbed bag of innards there, inside, without bothering to pull them out.
Then it's real easy to skin those legs etc.
Was quite quick and a lot less messy!
That is the preferred method for backpack hunting. With desert heat you have to get the animal out of there and cooled down as quick as possible. I even go so far as to chip out the skull cap so you don't have to pack the head either.
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