Don't let weather discourage you. Go whenever you can. I deal with warm weather here because we start hunting early september. Heck, they are talking mid fifties this week and we have a three day hunt planned. I hope to have three deer by the end.
We will quarter the animal in the field. No skin, meat left on the bone except for tenderloin, backstraps, etc. We have a cooler in the truck. Works just fine.
I will actually keep it in the cooler this way for a couple days so all the rigor is out of it and the meat can dry age a bit.
Never an issue with the meat when done this way.
Ok on your meat prep. Our archery season opens in late August/early September. Way too warm then.
I don't have to travel anywhere to hunt, I hunt on my own land right outside my back door on 110 acres. Don't even have to buy a license as a landowner in Kentucky but do have to check anything I harvest....it's done online so it's not a big deal.
The second to last buck I shot here I was just a few steps out my back door, using a WWII surplus 8mm German K98 Mauser @ about 50 yards. Knocked him right off his feet.
The last buck I shot I decided to use an AR15.....bad choice. He was a nice 8 pointer with a big body, and it was just before sundown. Got a good lung shot but he ran quite a way out into one of my lower fields. I found him the next morning and luckily the weather was cold that night and it died later that evening so it was still a little warm when I found him.
I have several nice bucks and lots of does showing up on camera at a feeding spot a few hundred yards out in the woods. I don't hunt over the feed, I usually go a good distance away and use a grunt call to call in the bucks.
A few years ago, I called in three bucks so close, I could have jumped up out of my chair and grabbed one by its antlers. He was literally four feet from my face looking at my dumb ass sitting there with a shotgun across my lap.
The wind was directly to my face so he never got my scent. He stood there for a minute or so then backed away and walked off into the wind.
As I'm typing this, my grandson just sent me two pictures from his cell phone game camera. A big body 8 point buck with right side broken antlers at the feeding spot.
If I get my chores done by midafternoon, I might head out to a spot an see what I can call in.