You owe it to the animal to care for it the best you can. While I know how to butcher, I was a meat cutter in a store in highschool. I do not have a place to hang a deer in a controled cool envirenment nor to I have a place that is suitable to butcher a deer. However, my "paid flunky" will skin my deer upon arrival, will hang my deer for a week in the walk in cooler, he makes me the best smoked dried venison(think dried beef) you ever ate, makes the best venison sausage, fresh, Italian and smoked and provides me with stakes cut to order and burger. All vacume packed per my instructions as to amount and how thick the cuts are or weight. All this for about a hundred dollars. As a custom butcher, he knows what he is doing and his work is well worth the money. He is anything but a paid flunky. I am very particular about who handles my food. He also does my wild hogs for me. This is the best way for me to handle the big game I kill to show it respect.