I don't hunt deer but I've butchered hundreds of goats and pigs that me and my friends have caught. I even helped to butcher a buffalo once. Usually I will cut the meat from the bones and separate the individual muscles.

I wrap the muscles in suran wrap so that it is air tight and then wrap it in freezer paper. I write on the paper so I know what pieces they are and when I froze them. They last for a long time in the freezer paper.

My knife is a Gerber Freeman. There's a picture of it at this page.
Freeman Hunter