Fellas, fellas, c'mon now let's chill here, all come clean & find some kind of middle ground...I have grown up in the outdoors for 3 generations & been roaming water, woods & fields 50+ yrs now - Almost EVERYBODY I have ever known has ALWAYS cleaned game in-the-field. There is a way to do this without making such a "stink"...Elsewise, every backyard, dump or dumpster (guts, head, hide, feathers, fins trashbagged or not) in the country would be filled with rotting filth for hordes of non-hunters to smell & see!!!
The stuff has to end up final destination somewhere...Is a pheasant all that different or more royal than any other game animal? Do I have to start dragging my elk & deer out whole/ungutted for miles off PUBLIC state or forest land too (not even quartered)??? So where do you propose I put all that mess when I get home??? I completely debone my big-game & bring out nothing but the meat w/proof-of-sex attached and cape/horns if it's a trophy - and it's all LEGAL, CDOW even has a video explaining how to do it!
Anybody ever heard of a coyote - they are a very efficient clean-up crew, long as you know how to put things in a proper place well OUT-OF-SIGHT & easy for them to access without encouraging them any more than they already do to enter deep cover in search of live birds. If they can remove entire wild-hog & deer carcasses/entrails without so much as a trace (seen it 1000 times 1st-hand - usually overnite be4 next day, never more than two or three) - then little ol' pheasant remains are easy pickins in comparison!
Having said all that, the problem on public property is with sheer volume of hunters & birds bagged/possibly "cleaned" - whatever that word may mean to some. This ain't rocket science here - if novices and/or long-time-slob dumb-@sses are willing to learn or take the time to do it right instead of in the parking area beside the truck, along roadside ditches, close to a house or smack-dab in the middle of a good field for a hunter or dog to have to stumble over...GEEZ, UGGH, GRRRH - either way is fine, just do it right!!! Anyone who can't figure it out shouldn't be hunting in the first place until they do...BTW, if a feller can't train his dog not to chew/shred/eat bird-remains old or new - the pup is in need of a little more work too! :cheers: