diff --git a/src/gather.jl b/src/gather.jl
index 434e7fd55..e72d7905a 100644
--- a/src/gather.jl
+++ b/src/gather.jl
@@ -30,16 +30,16 @@ can end up being copied into zero, one, or multiple `dst` columns.
 function gather!(dst::AbstractArray{Tdst,Ndst}, 
                  src::AbstractArray{Tsrc,Nsrc}, 
                  idx::AbstractArray{NTuple{M,Int}, Nidx}) where {Tdst,Tsrc,Ndst,Nsrc,Nidx,M}
+    
     # TODO: use M = typelength(eltype(idx)) to merge the integer method into this?
-    @boundscheck _gather_checkbounds(src, idx)
     Ndst - Nidx == Nsrc - M  || throw(ArgumentError(""))
     size(dst)[1:Ndst-Nidx] ==  size(src)[1:Ndst-Nidx] || throw(ArgumentError(""))
     size(dst)[Ndst-Nidx+1:end] ==  size(idx) || throw(ArgumentError(""))
     
     coldst = ntuple(i -> Colon(), Ndst - Nidx)
     colsrc = ntuple(i -> Colon(), Nsrc - M)
-    @simd for k in CartesianIndices(idx)
-        @inbounds view(dst, coldst..., Tuple(k)...) .= view(src, colsrc..., idx[k]...)
+    for k in CartesianIndices(idx)
+        view(dst, coldst..., Tuple(k)...) .= view(src, colsrc..., idx[k]...)
     end
     return dst
 end
@@ -48,32 +48,17 @@ function gather!(dst::AbstractArray{Tdst,Ndst},
                 src::AbstractArray{Tsrc,Nsrc}, 
                 idx::AbstractArray{<:Integer, Nidx}) where {Tdst,Tsrc,Ndst,Nsrc,Nidx}
     
-    @boundscheck _gather_checkbounds(src, idx)
     Ndst - Nidx == Nsrc - 1  || throw(ArgumentError(""))
     size(dst)[1:Ndst-Nidx] ==  size(src)[1:Ndst-Nidx] || throw(ArgumentError(""))
     size(dst)[Ndst-Nidx+1:end] ==  size(idx) || throw(ArgumentError(""))  
     coldst = ntuple(i -> Colon(), Ndst - Nidx)
     colsrc = ntuple(i -> Colon(), Nsrc - 1)
-    @simd for k in CartesianIndices(idx)
-        @inbounds view(dst, coldst..., k) .= view(src, colsrc..., idx[k])
+    for k in CartesianIndices(idx)
+        view(dst, coldst..., k) .= view(src, colsrc..., idx[k])
     end
     return dst
 end
 
-function _gather_checkbounds(src, idx::AbstractArray{<:Integer})
-  mini, maxi = extrema(idx)
-  checkbounds(src, axes(src)[1:end-1]..., mini:maxi)
-end
-
-function _gather_checkbounds(src, idx::AbstractArray{<:NTuple{M,Int}}) where M
-    # TODO: use M = typelength(eltype(idx)) to merge the integer method into this?
-    minimaxi = ntuple(M) do d
-                    mini = minimum(i -> i[d], idx)    
-                    maxi = maximum(i -> i[d], idx)    
-                    mini:maxi
-                end
-    checkbounds(src, axes(src)[1:end-M]..., minimaxi...)
-end
 
 """
     gather(src, idx)