Most of the time when I shoot a deer, or I'm tracking a deer for some of the new hunters in our group. As soon as I come up to the deer I gut it right on the spot. I always carry a few plastic ziplock bags with me to save the heart and liver. Thats one dinner I wait for every year. After the deer is back at camp. It's hung in the pole barn, washed out then hung off the ground. Unless it's cold out then it's hung on the deer pole.