timbercruiser

We carry all of our deer to the skinning shed. Concrete slab with water, single tree, winch and a rail slide right in the cooler. We hang all of our deer by the back legs. I take a gut hook and open the deer all the way from below the anus to the base of the neck, then locate the white cartilege tab at the diaphram and work your knife blade in behing it and open up the chest cavity all the way down. Then take your knife and cut around the anus in deep so when you open up the belly you won't have any trouble getting the bladder etc loose. After opening up the belly, being careful of the guts, pull everything down into a tub, cut around the diaphram and take all of the guts, lungs etc into the tub and cut all off as high in the neck area as you can. Wash the deer out good with water and either skin it or push it into the cooler.
The gut hook eliminates most of the loose hair problem. I try to avoid getting my knife into the tarsals of the deer and usually start skinning below them.