RE: Field Dressing deer
Another tip is remove the skin flap from the stomach area( this is the large piece of nice white hide, that serve no meat purpose). By removing these flaps you'll have more room and allow quicker cooling of the meat. Always two nice things when field dressing.
A great tool is the Pelvic Saw, small T shaped saw that has a piece of plastic on the tip to prevent puncturing. This little tool is great to open up the anus area and allow clean removal of "THE POOPER" Zone.
Removal of the esophagus is required if you are not going to be able to skin it and wash it quickly. Like mentioned the acids in the deer esophagus can cause some meat disflavour. Simply cut the throat in the white patch of the neck through the juglar and esophagus, when you remove lungs and heart most times the whole shooting match will come when free and clear. (If mounting then don't do this, you'll have to get up there and release from the inside...be careful of that sharp knife)
Important thing to meat flavour is feild dressing (removal of all organs, if you should get waste or stomach contents on the back hams, wash thoruoghly and remove any suspected tainted meat), cooling of the meat and removal of excess hair and fat upon skinning. I always rinse the inside cavity out with clean cool water and wipe down the carcass with face clothes and cool water (to remove as many of those little hairs from skinning).
Good luck and have fun!