never, but in a simalar experience while rabbit hunting I learned a trick from an ol timer to gut a rabbit without a knife where you squeeze from beneath the front shoulders down towards the anus, bring it over your head then give it a snapping motion towards your feet and all the guts fly out of the anus....it does work but one time while slaying the cottontails and practicing the technique I thought all the guts flew out clean but some must have trailed behind...went to go to dinner with the wife after hunting and she says "what the hell is in your hair?!!" I use a knife now...