RE: Dontcha think it ought to be mandatory?
Jeff - just out of curiosity, why do you send your deer to have butchered after you've hung it and skinned it? Why do you choose to not go ahead and finish butchering it yourself? It's hanging there skinned. Doesnt' take much more to debone it and cut the meat how you want. Maybe it's common elsewhere. I just never heard of someone skinning the deer and sending it to the butcher. May as well just send the whole thing.