RE: curing your deer
There is really no reason to age does or younger deer. Mine usually hang a few days just because I'm too busy hunting to get to it right away. I like to let a buck hang 4 or 5 days, though. I don't field dress deer. I get them to the cleaning site, hang by the back legs, skin, gut, and wash the blood and hair off and get them into the walk-in cooler.