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if taken care of properly it is some of the best wild game meat....if treated poorly it is some of the worst.....get the critter skinned and the meat in a cooler ASAP and it is outstanding....let the critter bounce around in the back of the pickup all day, especially on the typical warm day of speed goat hunting weather and sometimes dogs wont eat it
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if taken care of properly it is some of the best wild game meat....if treated poorly it is some of the worst.. That sums it up perfectly. Good antelope beats elk. Bad antelope makes a shoe taste good.
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I agree and I'll add that you have to do a good job of shooting it as well. Shoot it in the leg and chase it all over the prairie trying to finish it, or shoot it in the guts and chase it all over and you'll end up with less than quality fair.
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Parden me I stepped on the dang hook while tosing the sinker.grin Looks like you hooked a shiner and an old carp.
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I've only managed to draw an antelope tag in Idaho once in my life. The one I got was pretty good eating. It tasted a lot like mule deer (I know some will say that's pretty bad).
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if taken care of properly it is some of the best wild game meat....if treated poorly it is some of the worst.....get the critter skinned and the meat in a cooler ASAP and it is outstanding....let the critter bounce around in the back of the pickup all day, especially on the typical warm day of speed goat hunting weather and sometimes dogs wont eat it 100% My first antelope was shot on a snowy day. Some other hunters spooked the herd. I shot my buck as they milled around trying to cross a fence. We gutted him and dragged him a mile back to the truck. The buck (other than for the photo shoot) rode in the truck for about 8 hrs before I skinned him. I could barely eat him, he was so gamey tasting. As a new hunter, it was so bad, it could have caused me to quit, because I didn't like the taste. All subsequent antelope have been skinned imediately after gutting, placed in cheesecloth and transported inside my canopied truck. Now I would rate antelope as the finest meat I have harvested and I have harvested sheep, WT, MD, elk and moose. My sister who doesn't like game meat, will eat antelope. Treat an antelope right, and it is the best IMO.
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Only killed two lope. One was delicious, one was gross. Both were bang flops and skinned right away and cooled down.
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It seems folks either love antelope meat, or despise it.. As mentioned elsewhere we make jerky out of all of our antelope.. I think my wife cooked some tenderloin for a game dinner for the relatives from out of state.. They enjoyed it.. When we had lots of antelope, I had a couple families that preferred it to other game.. Since there were lots of permits available, I would give them two or three each year.. Antelope makes the best jerky of any of the wild game.. We love it, so that is how it is used.. Mostly antelope I handle are skinned with in minutes of shooting probably at most 30 min to an hour before the jacket is off..
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Antelope meat is some of the finest game fair to grace a dinner table, IMHO. Yet, as others have stressed, putting the animal down and treatment is the utmost requirement. I have taken many, many antelope and have yet to be disappointed in the flavor. I will not shoot at a running 'loper buck or doe. It is important to find that 'loper the is resting, feeding or merely milling around. Dress them right away and get the hide off without getting too much hair on the carcass. Get him/her into a cooler with ice. If no ice at least keep the meat out of sunlight as much as possible. Then get them to a meat processor as soon as possible. Venison is good, 'loper is better. MTG
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Some of the finest game meat available in the US, although I've not put any bighorn on my table yet.
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I had the meat from my mountain goat made into Thurenger(sp) sausage. Did not last long. Mountain goat is true goat. Antelope not really a goat. Antelope, Pronghorn, are a species unto themselves having a flavor unlike venison. MTG
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I have had a few made into jalapeno cheese sausage, good stuff, almost anything is good with cheese and jalapeno in it.
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Had antelope (roast/tenderloins) for the first time last night since my 12 yr old son and I tagged out last weekend. Wife & kids approved...so I'll be putting in for antelope rags again next year.
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I've only managed to draw an antelope tag in Idaho once in my life. The one I got was pretty good eating. It tasted a lot like mule deer (I know some will say that's pretty bad). I really like antelope, and I've never had a bad mule deer buck either, even the great big ones. Obviously field care, cleaning, aging are the keys.
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I had the meat from my mountain goat made into Thurenger(sp) sausage. Did not last long. Mountain goat is true goat. Antelope not really a goat. Antelope, Pronghorn, are a species unto themselves having a flavor unlike venison. MTG Yep. And they're not even an antelope, either. I read that their closest living relative is the giraffe. The reason that they are so speedy is that there used to be an American Cheetah (although may not have been closely related to the African cheetahs).
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Fixed the subject line for you! Eric
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Have shot a few (12), and they all sucked worse than eating the azz out of a menstrating skunk. Shot, skinned, deboned, and on ice very quickly. Had burger and summer sausage made out of the last 4. I use the burger to make jerky. It's the best. Guys at work want me to sell them pounds of it. Nope, Im stingy.
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Parden me I stepped on the dang hook while tosing the sinker.grin Whee! I stepped on dang stone while tosing and strikink the great white snak. Just me.
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My buddy And I got two apiece in SD a few years ago. The temps were in the high 80's so we got them cut up and on ice quickly. Aside from being a bit chewy, the flavor of all of them was very mild. IMO milder than whitetail.
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