I will never forget ...first, the shock on my dads face when I brought home the first deer I shot at 16, then his ...exasperation with butchering it! It was the first deer taken in my family. Many, many more followed. I thoroughly enjoy butchering them, but will happily drop it off at my meat processor if the temps are in the forties or greater. By myself, I can usually go from hung deer to skinned, quartered, butchered and packaged deer in about four hours....usually the wife helping if asked, but always with the packaging. I have done several bears too....very similar processs.