Best meat?

[AT Hiker]

The two most stinking, rutted up animals are elk and pronghorn...but man do they taste great!

Killed a mature KS buck in early September, alfalfa fields and crp for miles and those little scrub red oaks hadn't dropped yet...that was the best Eastern Whitetail I've ever had.

If you haven't eaten a desert Coues whitetail then your missing out on life. How anything can taste so delicious that eats nothing but cactus and sand is beyond me. The flesh is very light in color and texture, almost pork like.

I prefer mule deer over whitetail, you can grind the meat up and actually make a burger without adding fat.

 

[david k.]

One thing I have learned from this thread is I must eat some moose, sooner, rather than later. Great info here.

You're in luck, my friend.....

 

[TNRifleman]

You're in luck, my friend.....

Sounds like we need a get together soon around a football game or something.

 

[megalomaniac]

Been 7 or 8 years since I killed an elk. Maybe I've forgotten... but properly cared for antelope may be even better than beef/ elk.

These backstraps were dry aged 8 days since kill. Steaks were salt/ peppered, then pan seared in butter, garlic, rosemary, thyme to medium rare in a cast iron skillet.

Just as tender as filet mignon, but the most incredibly rich flavor with a hint of sweetness. I think only prime graded filet of beef is better.

 

[TX300mag]

I'm a fan of Wagyu, got several friends around here that raise them (pure and angus cross)

Axis deer beats whitetail any day.

Wild pig can be pretty good.

 

[rodeojoe]

Wild game meat
!. Moose
2. Elk
3. Pronghorn

 

[LongBranch470]

To date Nilgai is my favorite. Very mild and as close to beef as I've ever had from wild game.

 

[OldFart]

"Mega", you'll love moose steaks. I used to say elk was better but moose tops elk. Don't get me wrong, all of it is good, especially W TN Whitetail. My wife won't eat CO Mulies but will eat TN Whitetail I hope to stock up on WT in November,

 

[AT Hiker]

Anyone eaten Sitka Black-tails?

 

[Buzzard Breath]

Anyone eaten Sitka Black-tails?

Ask again in 13 months.

 

[tellico4x4]

Anyone eaten Sitka Black-tails?

Yep, 8 of us ate one entire sitka at one sitting on POW. It wasn't a very big buck to start with and after boned & muscled out, it was just enough for dinner! Don't remember it being any better or worse than whitetail. Now the dungeness crabs we caught in traps daily were to die for!

 

[Dean Parisian]

oryx
elk
eastern CO antelope
mountain lion sausage was good

 

[Snowwolfe]

1. Bison - buy another freezer, I ended up with over 550 pounds of boned out meat from the one I killed.
2. Warthog - tastes like sweet fine grained pork. Delicious
3. Elk
4. Alaskan moose
5. Alaskan blacktail
6. Whitetail
7. Impala

Ones that I would eat but not nuts over:
Caribou and black bear

 

[megalomaniac]

1. Bison - buy another freezer, I ended up with over 550 pounds of boned out meat from the one I killed.
2. Warthog - tastes like sweet fine grained pork. Delicious
3. Elk
4. Alaskan moose
5. Alaskan blacktail
6. Whitetail
7. Impala

Ones that I would eat but not nuts over:
Caribou and black bear

Seriously warthog??? I had no idea! Bison I could see being no 1, ive eaten it and its good... not much different than grass fed beef.

 

[Snowwolfe]

Seriously warthog??? I had no idea! Bison I could see being no 1, ive eaten it and its good... not much different than grass fed beef.

When I was in Zimbabwe it was so popular it was served in most restaurants.

 

[OldFussNFeathers]

Pink snapper.

Better than a pink taco?

 

[M T Pockets 000]

Y,all ain't et til ya heat up a can of this. Course fresh off the road is best roasted over an open fire. Fer the finer more refined pallet thar is dillo. Ummm possum on the half shell.

 

[Hymie3]

You haven't lived til you've had sand hill crane…
1. Sandhill crane
2. Elk
3. Grass fed beef /grain finished
4. Whitetail
5. Blackened grouper

 

[Falconi]

To date Nilgai is my favorite. Very mild and as close to beef as I've ever had from wild game.

Makes sense. It's a bovine.

 

[Crosshairy]

You haven't lived til you've had sand hill crane…
1. Sandhill crane
2. Elk
3. Grass fed beef /grain finished
4. Whitetail
5. Blackened grouper

I like sandhill pretty well, but I personally wouldn't rank it above elk. I've only eaten 2, for what that's worth. Some of the folks I fed it to complained of an iron after-taste, although I didn't notice it. That was from a really old-looking bird, so I wonder if that was part of it. I thought the sandhill hearts were the best, but I really enjoyed the steaks as well.