For the last 3 years I haven't drug a deer out of the woods even though I have shot 15. This method is great for the liberal doe tag states. When I shoot a deer, I go back to my truck, leave my bow behind, and grab a backpack with a hoist, gambrel, rope, rubber gloves, and a trash bag. Where the deer lies I gut it, tie the hoist to a nearby tree with the rope, lift it, skin it, and bone it, put the meat in a trash bag, and place it in my backpack. I can skin and boneout a deer in 20-30 minutes. I am not dragging out the useless weight of bones and hide; unless it is a nice buck of course. I have no deer carcass to get rid of and I'm not skinning out some week old, cold or frozen deer like 90% of the guys around here do. This does not affect deer in the woods and I have seen deer walk right beside a fresh carcass. Basically the same thing that elk hunters have been doing for years.
EDIT: Of course this will not work in states that require deer to be taken to a checkin station. Here in IA they just enacted a law that we have to check a deer in by phone or computer before it can be processed for consumption. No big deal; check it in by either method and than skin it and bone it where it died. Dragging deer out of the woods is too much work for me; I have grown smarter in my 40's.
