Get 'em in the cooler ASAP (just like with any game) and it's the best stuff in the World.
That's where most hunters go wrong. Ya gotta start processing ASAP. Skinned, parted or boned-out and on ice ASAP.
The dishes above are really simple. Simple, quality food is always the best. The Red Chile I made from the dried pods and is quite easy to do. Can't buy many products pre-made that approach doing it yourself. Bueno Foods Red Chile is pretty damn good and will work, but when tasted side-by-side with homemade, gets beaten.
Taco filling is simple:
Brown off the ground meat
little diced onion and garlic to sweat
Add some cooked potato or pinto beans
Add some Powdered New Mexico Red Chile, Salt, Pepper
Mash it all together and there's your filling.
Heat a fry pan with 1/8" of vegetable oil in it to temperature. Put a couple of tablespoonfuls of filling in each uncooked corn tortilla. Fold in half and set in the pan, base down and hold it till it begins to crisp up. Then lay it on its side. Continue with as many tacos as you are wanting to make are done. Hold them in batches in the oven at 200 degrees till your done.
You'll have already diced some sweet onion, tomato, grated cheddar, and shredded some lettuce to build your taco.
It's not a taco unless you have some nice red chile sauce to spoon in.
Take the fried taco, add a little fresh onion and cheese. Spoon in some hot red chile, top with tomato and lettuce. Stuff your face!
