Just did our first deer of the season yesterday. If you have a couple countertops and a knife it's simple. Don't ever let a butcher tell you it's some sort of technical art. Your not rebuilding transmissions here. Your cutting meat off bone and packaging it. And no I don't know any good butchers. Last one I used I had to because the moose we killed was the same week as my move out as we sold our house. Never again...