What do you do after you score a buck? (shoot a deer)?

I'm getting into hunting, and am not really sure on what you do after you kill a buck. Do you field dress it? Or do you bring it back to your truck, or if not intending on eating it, do you leave it where it is and just take the antlers? I know these are probably dumb questions, I just haven't hunted before and am planning on getting into itWhat do you do after you score a buck? (shoot a deer)?
The very first thing you do is field dress the deer. Then you take it right home (don't put it on the hood of the truck and show it off to the school kids). Once you get it home, skin it, split it down the back bone (head to tail not side to side), and then (if you have a cool place like a basement) hang it for a day to drain the blood. The next day, cut and freeze it. You will not have the gamey favor that most people complain about with venison.What do you do after you score a buck? (shoot a deer)?
Feild dressing really depends on how far you are from your truck, if you think you can get it to the truck then take it home because it will make gutting the deer a lot easier because you should have more supplies at home, if you live in the city than you might think about dressing it in the woods. If you are not intending on eating it you still have to make a use of the meat, if you dont want the meat send it to a local food bank, it is illegal to just take the horns.
First thing you do is field dress it. Different styles of field dressing depending on whether you want a mounted full cape trophy. Some states have policies against lopping off the antlers. You have to tag the deer in order to make it a legal kill and that requires a license and an ID tag. Even if you aren't going to eat it, at least gut it and take it home and hang is out to dry it out and get it ready to be skinned so you can cape the buck to have it mounted.
I haven't bagged a deer yet but I hope to later on. The first thing I'd do would be to gut it then chop off the antlers. If I was on my own, I would leave the carcass where it fell. If I could get the 4x4 to it, I would take the meat home for dog meat if it was any good for dog food. I would take and tan the hide for leather. Deer here are feral and can be shot all year. Some States have some laws about them but I dont know what they are. I think the laws relate to cruelty and shooting deer with too small a caliber.





Wedge
Whether you field dress it depends on how far it is to a better spot. But it needs to be dressed and butchered. If you don't want the meat, somebody else will, and you should NEVER leave a carcass to rot. BTW, scoring a deer is the wrong term. That's what you do when you measure the antlers for B%26amp;C or P%26amp;Y scores. There are people who like to keep up with these things. As a matter of fact, I've hunted places where you weren't allowed to shoot a buck with a B%26amp;C score of under 150, with a hefty fine for non-compliance, so that is not a trivial consideration.
Its not dumb if your new at it.





You field dress the deer, you can even butcher the deer out there if you wanted I guess. Then once you get back home, you finish skinning it and butchering it. Or you could take it to a deer processor.





Its illegal to harvest a game animal and take the hide or rack and leave the rest there.
You field dress it 'on site'. Tag it, and pack/drag it out.


You do not just leave it lying around.


Even if you don't intend to eat it, there are places you can donate the meat.
gut it on the spot. lighter to move, its the law, and it saves more meat. then either butcher it yourself or get it butchered. if you dont want it then sell the meat or give it away.
I making wontons soup with venison, and making chopstick from the antler to eat the wontons soup.
TAG IT! The FIRST thing you do is tag it.