As an interesting aside.
I grew up in SW Oklahoma eating deer and elk from here and elk and muleys from SW Colorado. I never had a preference between our whitetail deer and elk from CO or from here. Occasionally we’d get a big mule deer that was musky and strong but never an elk or whitetail.
Therefore I never understood people like my cousins from NM or my mother in law who’s from the MT/ID/WA neighborhood, who emphatically stated they absolutely do not like deer. Until last month when my mother in law moved down here.
After eating some deer we killed in Nov and some elk I killed last week she remarked at how weird it was with the game down here. She explained that the deer here don’t have the “deer” taste like they do where she’s lived and that they are just as mild as elk. Made sense to me then as I hadn’t experienced that and never really got how everyone always went on and on about how great elk are.
