Most people suggest taking pictures without having the deer gutted. Just makes for better pictures. They also suggest you do it in the wild and not in a garage or house yard or anything.

I usually...take the deer out of the woods, and then gut it at the house in our woods. It still makes good pictures...and that's just usually how I do it. If I had to hump it out, by myself, on foot...I might gut it first in the woods to make it lighter to drag.