RE: Butchering your own
Depends upon what you mean about taking it to a butcher. Gutting it in the field is a part of my hunting. Not a problem. However, making sausage, pepperoni and jerky out of all that meat is beyond me. I typically take the back strap and maybe some small cuts from the lower ribs then take the rest to the butcher for the sausage etc. That's deer. Elk is another story. Just to good to be made into anything. I do that myself. As for puking? Naa. Wouldn't be hunting unless you at least gut the animal yourself would it. At least that's the way I was taught.
Steve