My Dad, brothers, and I give all of our deer to one of my dads friends. All he eats is venison. All we eat is beef and elk. I had a whole doe made into jerky last year without figuring out how much it would cost me and it was a huge doe. Luckily the butchers are good people and gave me a deal and i only had to pay 1/2 of what it would have cost me. I think it ended up still costing me $70 or $80 for the jerky! My dad went in half with me though so he could keep some jerky so it wasnt too bad. We occasionally get some venison from my dads friend. So really all we have to do is shoot the deer, call him up, bring it to his house, help him skin it, and be done with it. Getting elk butchered is a whole other story