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Not going to list small game and birds but here goes:
In North America
Deer (whitetail, mulie, blacktail)
Elk
Pronghorn
Black Bear
Stone Sheep
Bighorn Sheep
Mountain Lion
Mountain Goat
Moose
Caribou
Bison
Alligator
Wild Boar
Black Buck
Aoudad
Texas Dahl Sheep
In Africa
Kudu (Cape and Southern Greater)
Eland
Bushbuck
Warthog
Blesbok
Gemsbok
Springbok
Red Hartebeest
Blue wildebeest
Black Wildebeest
Waterbuck
Oribi
Red Flanked Duiker
Ostrich
Western Roan
Western Hartebeest
Zebra
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Zebra, good as any beef ribeye. Fresh fried Crocodile tail. Elephant balls cut up and cooked like calf fries. Old Buffalo Bull oxtail. Cook said “You’ll be able too cut like butter”. He was right.
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Quail
Deer
Pig
Antelope
Doves
Pheasant
Axis deer
Bison
Turkey
Duck
Elk
Nilgai
Axis deer
Oryx
Oryx and Axis deer are my favorites.
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There was a RedHead one time.
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Kob antelope
African porcupine
Lungfish
Innumerable minnows various species
Giant snail
Plus some of the usual N. American stuff
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Wild animals and birds I've eaten (some perhaps pushing the boundaries of the definition of "game") would include:
Ants - sugarbag and green ants
Buffalo
Camel
Cricket
Crocodile
Deer - fallow, red, sambar, rusa
Ducks - Pacific black duck, wood duck (maned goose)
Emu
Feral pig
Feral goat
Goanna
Hare
Kangaroo
Magpie goose
Pheasant
Pigeon - Bronzewing, Topknot and common (introduced) varieties
Quail
Rabbit
Snail
Snake
Teal - grey and chestnut
Wallaby
Witjuti grubs
I've gathered and eaten oysters, mussels, cockles, periwinkles, pipis, sea urchins, abalone, blue swimmer crabs, mud crabs, Balmain bugs, prawns and squid and, from freshwater, freshwater mussels and yabbies.
I've caught and eaten a lot of different species of fish too, in fresh and salt, including
Albacore
Australian Bass
Australian Salmon
Bream
Carp
Catfish
Coral Trout
Drummer
Eeels
Flathead
Groper
Jewfish
Kingfish
Leatherjacket
Luderick
Mackerel - Spanish
Mangrove Jack
Morwong
Murray Cod
Red Emperor
Redfin (Perch)
Red Rock Cod
Snapper
Tailor
Tarwhine
Trout (rainbow, brown)
Trevally (silver and golden)
Whiting
Yellowbelly
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German
French
Swedish
Spanish
English
Croatian
Mexican
Columbian
Italian
but never be dark meat on my list.
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Bludog: I have enjoyed all manner of big game, small game, game birds and fish!
I look forward to trying new things in the "wild game" category..
I have eaten:
Cougar
Buffalo
Moose
Mountain Goat
Blacktailed Deer
Whitetailed Deer
Mule Deer
Antelope
Black Bear
Elk
Bighorn Sheep
Caribou
Sandhill Crane
Rattlesnake
Rock Chuck
Porcupine
Among my favorite fishes are:
Steelhead
Halibut
Sockeye Salmon
And among my favorite game birds are:
Pheasant
Hungarian Partridge
Doves
One of my Elk Hunting partners just returned from Alaska and gave me some rather fresh Halibut he caught which we will be baking tonight!
Natures bounty - right on.
Hold into the wind
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I remember reading a funny story where the Herter brothers cooked and ate an owl.
Old guy, old guns.
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Nah, not worth it to try to think of it all, just call me a vegan.
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Squirrel
Rabbit
Groundhog
Dove
Pigeon
Crow
Antelope
Whitetail Deer
W
Mule Deer
Elk
Moose
Turkey
Quail
Pheasant
Ducks
Geese
To many species of fish to list
Cannot prove it but I suspect I have eaten Kangaroo because way back when I was in school we would get some kind of frozen patties and it said Australia right on the box and at the time we didn’t have any Pattie’s around that tasted like that. When we got to asking about how different they tasted the school said because they had soybeans in them!!! Ha ha! Same here on the "Australian beef" on the school menu. I'd never had kangaroo, but I knew damned well it wasn't "Australian grass-fed beef". A co-worker told the principal she took a sample and was going to have it tested. The item went away immediately- and we got word the school district took a bath on that "Australian beef" deal. I've no doubt they got it at a good price - until then. I know wild game when I taste it, mostly. And mostly I like it. It sure as hell wasn't beef. Can't prove it was kangaroo, tho. rabbit and hare, hun partridge, porcupine, pheasant, sage, sharptail, & spruce grouses, ptarmigans, dove, various ducks, geese, mule and white-tail deer, bison, pronghorn, black, grizzly, and polar bear, beluga & bowhead whale, seal and walrus ( take a pass on those!!!), beaver, caribou, moose, goat, sheep, elk, 4-legged cougar ( I understand the 2-legged can be a bit gamey, but at least one doesn't have to shoot it first), musk ox (you could maybe fool me on that for beef, at least if I hadn't had it identified first time I ate it - probably not, now).
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The regulars most have noted. Some of the weirder ones are Mt. Lion - very good by the way, mild w/ light colored meat., Bison, Boar, Bear and a few others. Lots of birds and fish. I prefer antelope steak to about anything.
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North American game:
Mule Deer
Whitetail Deer
Rocky Mtn. Elk
Pronghorn
Shiras Moose
Mtn. Lion
Black Bear
Bighorn Sheep
Stone Sheep
Desert Bighorn Sheep
Dall Sheep
Barren Ground Caribou
Wild Hog
Muskox
Rattlesnake
Squirrel
Cottontail
Marmot
Bison
African game:
Gemsbok
Steenbok
Kudu
Impala
Duiker
Ostrich
Exotics:
Fallow Deer
Sika Deer
Nilgai
Tahr
Aoudad
Red Deer
Paca (S.A. rodent)
Water Buffalo
Birds:
Dove
Quail
Goose
Numerous Duck species
Pheasant
Wild Turkey
Blue Grouse
Ptarmigan
Fish:
Species too numerous to mention.
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Just off the top of my head.
rabbit
squirrel
bob white quail
ground hog
possum
frog legs
mallard and wood duck
raccoon
turkey
deer
I might've forgot something.
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Squirrel
Rabbit
Groundhog
Dove
Pigeon
Crow
Antelope
Whitetail Deer
W
Mule Deer
Elk
Moose
Turkey
Quail
Pheasant
Ducks
Geese
To many species of fish to list
Cannot prove it but I suspect I have eaten Kangaroo because way back when I was in school we would get some kind of frozen patties and it said Australia right on the box and at the time we didn’t have any Pattie’s around that tasted like that. When we got to asking about how different they tasted the school said because they had soybeans in them!!! Ha ha! Same here on the "Australian beef" on the school menu. I'd never had kangaroo, but I knew damned well it wasn't "Australian grass-fed beef". A co-worker told the principal she took a sample and was going to have it tested. The item went away immediately- and we got word the school district took a bath on that "Australian beef" deal. I've no doubt they got it at a good price - until then. I know wild game when I taste it, mostly. And mostly I like it. It sure as hell wasn't beef. Can't prove it was kangaroo, tho. rabbit and hare, hun partridge, porcupine, pheasant, sage, sharptail, & spruce grouses, ptarmigans, dove, various ducks, geese, mule and white-tail deer, bison, pronghorn, black, grizzly, and polar bear, beluga & bowhead whale, seal and walrus ( take a pass on those!!!), beaver, caribou, moose, goat, sheep, elk, 4-legged cougar ( I understand the 2-legged can be a bit gamey, but at least one doesn't have to shoot it first), musk ox (you could maybe fool me on that for beef, at least if I hadn't had it identified first time I ate it - probably not, now). There was a bit of a scandal back in 1981, where exporters were putting roo meat into beef exported to the US, so you may be right. It could have been horse too, because that went in as well as roo. A few people went to jail over it. Roo is good tucker though. Zero fat. It does taste different to beef (so does horse).
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Don't know how this will translate to a Campfire page. It's a list I've kept over the years:
North America:
Big game:
Axis deer cottontail Canada goose sage grouse
Bighorn sheep snowshoe hare Ross’s goose sharptail
Bison snow goose G. prairie chicken
black bear jackrabbit, WT white-fronted goose Hun. partridge
blacktail (Sitka) squirrel, gray mallard chukar partridge
caribou squirrel, red pintail pheasant
elk squirrel, fox BW teal ruffed grouse
javelina beaver (tail) GW teal spruce grouse
moose porcupine spoonbill blue grouse
mule deer ruddy bobwhite quail
musk ox redhead Gambel’s quail
nilgai canvasback Calif. quail
oryx, scimitar-horned mourning dove
pig (feral) 4 subspecies turkey
pronghorn willow ptarmigan
white-tailed deer woodcock
Beluga whale
Africa:
Kudu Namaqua sandgrouse
Blue wildebeest francolin, Swainson’s
Black wildebeest guinea fowl, helmeted
Tsessebe guinea fowl, crested
Blesbok ostrich
Impala Speckled (rock) pigeon
Springbok
Eland
Bush pig
Warthog
Zebra
Cape buffalo
Gemsbok
Red hartebeest
Lichtenstein’s “
Bushbuck
Europe:
Red stag, European hare rock ptarmigan
Reindeer
Roe deer
Wild boar
Fallow deer
Sika deer
Minke whale
Argentina:
Eared Dove silver teal
Perdiz, rosy-billed pochard
Pica zuro pigeon
Spot-winged pigeon Fulvous whistling
duck
Have no doubt left something off the list.
The biggest thing I've noticed is that just about any sort of big game, wild birds or gamefish can taste good if prepared well. But then my wife is professional wild game/fish cook and does plenty of research on how to do it.
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Do not think I can list everything.
Favorites, in no particular order.
Moose (Wyoming Shiras before the willows/alders turned in Sept.)
eland
zebra
axis
pronghorn (well cared for)
Honorable mention.
Porcupine was surprisingly good.
As was feral hogs that had been been feeding on wild onions.
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MD,
That’s an impressive list of game vittles.
I won’t even ask which were your top 5 for best eating.
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