RE: butcher your own deer???
Gun season we always do our own. But we have got it down pretty well after 9 years. Backstraps whole, roasts, and scrap for whatever. Bow season depends, most of the gun hunters don' t bow hunt so there is not a lot of help. This year, my brother and I both got one on a Thursday, recovered one late evening/early morning, and the other mid morning. If we had cut them up, we would have missed the weekend.