First off, you don't need a saw. You don't want bone chips in your meat and besides that it's another thing to clean. Farm Hunter is pretty good on temperatures and when to do it. I have skinned and deboned a lot of deer with in an hour of killing them. Just depends on the weather and cooler availability. I hang 'em, skin 'em and debone them where they hang. When I've got all the meat off I bust up the carcass with a big pair of limb loppers. As far as supplies, it depends on how you do it. I've started vaccum packing all mine. I don't mess with a lot of garbage meat anymore. I do my backstraps and steaks and make some stew packages. I just gather up a few pounds of good scrap and have someone do the sausage and stuff for me.