Best Tasting Animal?
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Ammo Smith
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It's hard to narrow it down to just one from the game animals I have eaten, but this is my best shot at it.
Pronghorn antelope / elk : tie for BEST - They both are just fantastic. I might hedge towards antelope as being number one if I had to.
Bighorn sheep - I have only had a small amount but it was excellent.
Black bear - It has been excellent eating. Very mild and tasty.
Bison - I had a friend get a bison and the meat was excellent. I really liked it.
Mountain lion - It was excellent and mild flavored. I've had steak and sausage from a mountain lion.
Mule deer and whitetail deer - Both are very good and I like eating them.
Moose - What I have eaten was okay but not great in my book. I've had moose off of I think 3 different animals that friends killed.
Pronghorn antelope / elk : tie for BEST - They both are just fantastic. I might hedge towards antelope as being number one if I had to.
Bighorn sheep - I have only had a small amount but it was excellent.
Black bear - It has been excellent eating. Very mild and tasty.
Bison - I had a friend get a bison and the meat was excellent. I really liked it.
Mountain lion - It was excellent and mild flavored. I've had steak and sausage from a mountain lion.
Mule deer and whitetail deer - Both are very good and I like eating them.
Moose - What I have eaten was okay but not great in my book. I've had moose off of I think 3 different animals that friends killed.
Blkram
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The best tasting deer I ever shot was a mulie-whitetail hybrid that was living in the alfalfa fields...no gaminess whatsoever!
Hunter26
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Dang, I havent eaten near as many different animals as most of y'all.
For me, any kind of deer I love but mostly eat whitetail. Also wood duck is amazing.
For me, any kind of deer I love but mostly eat whitetail. Also wood duck is amazing.
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YakubaSlava36
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Now I want to eat
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salmonchaser
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Moose is my favorite, followed by elk.
Charlie-NY
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My wife makes a fantastic wild boar roast and moose roasts. Not much better that I've taken.
Teknys
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Red meat = Elk
Fish = Spring Chinook, Dugeness Crab and Halibut
When I lived in Western WA I would invite friends over for fresh Dungeness Crab in the cooker and Elk burgers on the bbq. It doesn’t get much better !
Fish = Spring Chinook, Dugeness Crab and Halibut
When I lived in Western WA I would invite friends over for fresh Dungeness Crab in the cooker and Elk burgers on the bbq. It doesn’t get much better !
salmonchaser
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I hosted choir practice following our swat training days. Salmon and/ or steelhead and elk. Twice a month. The salmon part was easy as even before I retired I would take a months leave (accumulated comp time) and go guide in Alaska. Mostly I would bring sockeye home. In the spring, when the dog woods bloom, I would take some of my team mates down to the Columbia, near Longview, to fish for Springers. Nothing better.
Teknys
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When I lived in Longview- Springers was the best meat we had access to. Ocean Silvers next followed by any white meat fish out of Ilwaco. I too would take a month from Aug 15 thru Sept 15 and “live” in my boat. I would donate probably 90% of the meat.
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Ammo Smith
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A few posts back I answered pronghorn antelope / elk as tie for first. I still stay with that but when I saw a post about wild game jerky by AFG270 I'd have to say that that is absolutely wonderful as well. I have made jerky out of deer, antelope, and elk and it is delicious. It's one of those things that I cannot seem to stop snacking on. It doesn't matter which game animal out of those three I listed either. In addition it is much better than jerky I have made out of beef that I have purchased just to make some jerky out of it because I was out of wild game. I do not have an answer to why beef jerky isn't on the same scale as wild game, but it just tastes different from the wild game stuff.
I shot a whitetail doe one year and I made jerky out of the whole deer using it for nothing other than jerky. My wife and I were both completely crazy over it. We would snack on it periodically throughout the day. We'd have dinner and pretty soon we both would eat a piece or two of jerky all over again. It was like a drug we were addicted to, and we couldn't stop. Might have to squeeze wild game jerky (antelope, elk, deer) into the mix.
I shot a whitetail doe one year and I made jerky out of the whole deer using it for nothing other than jerky. My wife and I were both completely crazy over it. We would snack on it periodically throughout the day. We'd have dinner and pretty soon we both would eat a piece or two of jerky all over again. It was like a drug we were addicted to, and we couldn't stop. Might have to squeeze wild game jerky (antelope, elk, deer) into the mix.
Blkram
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The main difference is going to be that the wild game does not have fat marbelled into the muscle like beef does.
all the wild game jerky I've ate has been delicious , no matter the animal . I've never made any . one of my customers would make jerky from the wild turkey he would get .he always gave me some . it was really good too . if you get a chance to try , " Turkey Jerky " don't pass it by .
