Rifle season isn't quite underway yet so I'm still hunting with a bow.

My problem is this: my friends that hunt are always busy and I can never seem to get our schedules to coincide. I'm tired of waiting and fear the season may pass me by (again) if I wait for the stars to line up. My friends just say the heck with it--just go.

Now I'm confident I can do the set-up and kill--my problem is that I have never field-dressed anything. Since I hunt late afternoon dusk--my feeling is that after a kill I'll be benighted out in the boondocks and will make a mess out of dressing the deer--especially since it would be my first time and it would likely be dark. I've bought several books/videos but none of them seem to do a complete explanation with good illustrations geared towards a complete numskull first-timer (me).

What, if any, are my alternatives/recommendations??