Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game Mule deer meat now....any good?

I prefer the meat of a smaller Mule deer buck, 2pt or smaller 4pt to other game meat from any horned animal. I have shot lots of Mule deer, and later in the rut the bigger bucks are pretty hard to eat.
We always marinade with sage and Olive oil, and I also find Mule deer to be consistantly good if taken before the rut even the big bucks. The stinky bucks get the sausage treatment and even then it can be nasty if its a really rank buck.

I think what happens is the fat on a Mule deer tastes rank at anytime of year, so when they go to rutting they dont eat and run all over the place using the fat reserves up and it runs throughout the meat, making it unpalatable