If you can find a local cutter to your area, you may want to throw him a pre-hunt bone?
Last season took a nice 6pt early, and did the cutting here at home, have for yrs, as mentioned above, its not that hard.
We had tag's left come the end of the week, went back to pack up blind, and came home with a beauty 10. I'm old, it had been a long hunt week, and decided to pay to get it processed?
I called all the places around here, they were all full, just glad last season was good for hanging, temp wise.
Cut it myself, worked out fine, but would have paid for it. Every place I called, late in the week, were out of cooler space.
The large gangs were dropping them off 20 or more at a time, cooler space was not even one more?
Good Hunting