Never met a single local in SE AL that would clean their own deer.
I used to quarter mine where they fell. Locals on the lease would get so upset, bitching about the gutpile scaring other deer off.
I finally explained to them, that taking one of these deer in still intact, you are looking at $50 just to have them skin and gut it. Big buck or little doe, you are in for 50 as soon as it hits their door.
Honestly I’m not surprised about the lack of AL guys dressing their own deer. The more expensive the club, the greater the chances they aren’t dressing their own game. It’s fairly common just to take them to processor shortly after they are killed. I’d say 90% of deer dropped off at the processors around here aren’t field dressed.
