As such, to each his own. But, I think you really understand my point also. I've been around and helped field dress deer, I have no problem with it. First day of gun season the guy hunting on the other side of the road shot at first light. Couldn't find his deer and needed help tracking it, so he called me for help. We tracked the deer for over and hour and a half through horrible thickets, pouring rain and huge mosquitoes. Once we found it, it was gut shot and we'd jumped it. It ran another ten yards and dropped, he finished it off. We field dressed it on the spot, because we had to drag it out. By the time we got it out of thickets no bigger than a dog door and back into the open to get the ATV to it, it'd been three hours. My point, it was necessary in this situation. If this deer had been hit good, only run 50 or so yards and dropped in a more open area we could have scooped it up and had it to the processor before the sun was up in the sky.

There are situations, and it's no problem when necessary. But, I personally don't see it as completing the experience so I choose not to unless I absolutely have to so that it saves the meat.