Our season in Va. opens in Sept for suburban deer in 4 counties also. Hunting that early in the season will be a learning experience for me also, that is a full month earlier than I have ever hunted before, this is the first year that Va. has opened this early. Their patterns will be totally different as far as feeding goes, they will still be eating more grasses and berries along with any fruit or crops they can, way to early for mast and the rut is no where near, so the bucks will still be doing their bachelor group thing which will be nice![8D] Like you I am concerned about the temps as far as hanging and butchering deer, the hotter is is the quicker you need to get them field dressed and cooled down, and if you don' t have a cooler to hang them in the quicker you need to get them butchered.