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AGW,

My experience as well! Water buffalo is great.

As memory factors in I can recall cooking fresh whitetail liver and heart with onion gravy when I was still a teen. In tent camp on a public management area either sex archery hunt with 6 or 8 friends ranging from my age to 50 or so. Back in the recurve days. Luckily had paid attention when Mama wanted to teach me how to make gravy. As others have said the setting makes the meal and I'm sure had we all been home, well rested, clean and warm we could have done better. But in the woods on a cold January night there were no leftovers.

Some really great responses here! Most interesting to me are the numerous comments on antelope listing specific locations where they're good and others where they're bad. And especially surprised about the negative comments on Wyoming antelope since that seems to be the most popular state to hunt them in. Guys that I've spoken with about Wyoming pronghorn have mentioned the mild sage flavor but I've personally never heard of the strong gamey flavor. Kind of has me freaked out as I was thinking about a trip to Wyoming for Pronghorn.

Whitetail
Elk

Eland

Since that's difficult and expensive to get stateside, runner up is Axis.

i only have hunted Canada and America i used to do this test with my kids i used black bear,elk,whitetail & muledeer,buffalo,caribou,russian boar. we all hated russian boar. buffalo was the favorite for all and that`s understandable , but the other favorite with my kids was antelope always.elk was always #2 behind antelope for the kids. > here`s kinda a funny story of my now 30 year old son and his friends when he was 16 years old and had a drivers license about my wild game meat. i was a lineman for the local REA had to work late we had outages so i got home about midnight ,fire pit was burn`n good,and of course they were drink`n beer from my fridge they all stay at my house they knew the rule. i looked at my son and he was grillin food from my freezer and thought he was cook`n some of his deer meat that he shot from the last fall ? but one of his friend`s said to me thanks for all those buffalo T -Bones they sure are tasty. i nicely told my son the next day eat those dam deer steaks you got ,heck you guys can`t taste that much drinkin beer anyway.now today i laugh at what our kids used to do and i mis the heck my son put me through but i mis it too as my father did.but now i got grandkids and now my kids will figure out about that part except i am helping my grandkids with some payback fun . with a GRIN !

Moose. antelope and elk.

what ever is set in front of me cooked med well.

I said earlier on P 3.



I have eaten Feral Hog on several occasions.
I don't consider feral pigs as Big Game.

That said, my friend who lives and hunts in a large river bottom kills a LOT of feral hogs. THEY know which ones to
cook/eat and it is PORK. Delicious !


Jerry

bighorn sheep
caribou
antelope from the grainfields of east montana

Musk-Ox

Beluga whale

Antelope (Montana, hunted near Bozeman)
Caribou
Whitetail from farm country

I think the best meat I've ever eaten was Russian boar, half pork half beef to my pallet. Though it wasn't really "wild".

Fortuitous timing on this thread as I'm cooking a bear roast today on the smoker. I can't say for sure how this one will turn out but so far it's my favorite meat of mule deer, blacktail, whitetail, Roosevelt and Rocky Mountain elk, antelope, and black bear. I think game meat flavor is highly dependent on what they are eating. We have very good bear food here.

If it's on my plate it is liable to be the favorite. Be Well, Rustyzipper.

In the case of animals with one single stomach, like bears or wild pigs, it definetely is like that. But when we talk ruminants that have several stomachs I do not think the feed easily transmits into their taste. OR nos as much at least. Maybe someone with more knowledge can confirm this for us.

Thank you.

Dall sheep backstraps over an open fire sure was awesome, but I was a hungry MOFO after eating instant oatmeal for 3 days. Caribou stew was awesome as well. my favorite local table fare is axis deer.

There fixed it.

My name is Bob

And I’m an elkaholic