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So the six antelope we got in WY this year were on BFE sage and typically lean & mean. The seventh was a Utah depredation tag and her feet probably never touched anything but alfalfa. (This guy's got 8,000 acres of alfalfa pivots and 12,000 acres of pasture. I like to apply for these tags to scope out falconry access more than anything -- and it worked! We spent about 3.5 minutes shooting an antelope and about 2 hours having him show me where all the hawks hang out ) at any rate, I've shot well over a hundred game animals now and have never seen anything even close to this degree of marbling in a "wild" animal and it tasted better than it looks....
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I'm not even sure I'd have too cook that!
Did Utah ever change their policy on only having 1 pronghorn tag per year?
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That looks fantastic! I've yet to try pronghorn, but I definitely wouldn't say no to a steak grilled from one of those cuts.
I've been building up points to go on my first pronghorn hunt. I thought I had a good shot this year, but no dice. What areas do you favor? Or what area do you recommend for a 1st timer?
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In Utah, I've mostly hunted around Snowville (private) , Randolph (public & private), Deseret , and the public land refuge just north of Deseret.
Don't know anything at all really, about the southern units
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Hmmm, okay. While I live in the northern part of the state, I'm more familiar with hunting the southern part.
Thanks.
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That's a shame. Doing what I did, where I did it, when I lived there I could have filled A LOT of depredation tags if I wasn't limited to one. Though I think we might be talking semantics, but what refuge is just north of Deseret?
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I can't for the life of me remember the name of it.
it's just NE of UT-16 , sandwiched between Deseret and Woodruff narrows reservoir
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Woodruff Co-op , that's it!
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Lots of corn and soy bean fed whitetails in Nebraska have well marbled meat. The January antlerless season produces, IMO, the best tasting venison. The rut is a month or more in the past, so the bucks aren't chasing does in an effort to breed.
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That looks amazing!
Good grilling to you sir!
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Dang, Matt!
My rodeo roping steer wasn't marbled like that! He was fattened up on hay and COB too.
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Wow Utah, that is something! Gonna be incredible eating.
Best game meat I've ever had was a pronghorn mostly feeding on alfalfa.
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So after cooking some of each of them post the taste comparison back here.
Will be interesting to say the least.
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Woodruff Co-op , that's it! Know it well. Semantics confused me (us?). I killed sagebrush on that piece of ground using cattle. Was a neat little experiment I ginned up with the DWR and a local rancher.
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