GMMAT, great advice about field dressing OTHER peoples deer....thats how i learned to be speedy at it...theres only 2 of us in the "crew" that can gut a deer and have it on its way to the truck in a speedy fashion....we dont like to waste time on our drives...get in, get out, get into the next woodlot...i also like to gut because that immediately gets me outta dragging! lol....we can usually get a truck REAL close to the downed deer, but sometimes we cant and it can get ugly...but, i usually do end up dragging as well lol..

also, ive heard about the gland removal thing too....guy that was with me when i shot my first deer made gutting into a surgical procedure...im not lying, we were there a half hour or more..we did remove the glands from the doe...some swear is makes the meat taste different....as well as letting them hang, some skin and let them hang, some leave the skin on, some bleed their game etc etc.....different people believe different things...i dont know...ive aged them, cut glands off, etc etc...i can never tell the difference...