RE: what will become of your deer
we do all our own processing at home.. burger, steaks, roasts, sausage, jerky, breakfast sausage (my favorite) and what every we decide to do.. both with my bucks, elk, bear, turks and lopes.
I will have 4 buck tags this year and 2 elk tags and oneMontanadoe tag.Wife will have an elk and deer tag too. Doubt we'd ever fill them all but if we do we'll have to buy another freezer. I have a nice set up now at the house, I have two 800 lb electricalhoists which makes it nice for the elk. I really want to build a walk in cooler next year, that will be my summer project to the garage. For now I have 2 extra refridgerators for early season when its hot to store my quarters in.. Works well before butchering.
I have two land owners that let me whitetail hunt their property, then all the rest of my hunting is on public lands, i make sure they each get a nice variety box of meatseach Christmas.