RE: Butchering the deer yourself?
I live by my own rules which seems a lot of other hunters have the same beliefs...
If weather dictates and it' s too warm (i.e. Sept/October), I skin and butcher ASAP and then into the frig. If the weather is cool, I like it to be below 45 degrees in the shade, I will let it hang with skin left on for a day or so. I don' t like to skin and then it hang as it' ll dry out.