But do you cut 'em up and package 'em for freezing?
The first year we were married, my wife thought it was cool that I got a couple of deer for the freezer (I'd already introduced her to venison).
She told me last week, though (twenty-two years after the fact) that she was utterly horrified the first time we spent three hours with them (and two others friends had killed) spread all over the kitchen, while I taught her how to strip the muscle, cut it diagonally cross-grain, and freeze-wrap it in four-serving packages for the freezer. She thought she'd married some kind of savage!
Yeah, that's the pleasant part compared to brain tanning- finest venison steaks and roasts in the world and the jerky is awesome, too. Since I try to salvage all the sinew I can for other purposes- before and after butchering so as to get the longest- there's never any gristle and no waste.
Ever stuck four deerlegs vertically in the snow outside someone's house and then called them up to tell them Rudolph had fallen off their roof?