As a funny side note for those who say it tastes bad......
Antelope vs. Beef: The controversy ends
From the U.S. Pronghorn Antelope Council
Controversy has long raged about the relative quality and taste of antelope and beef as gourmet foods. Some people say antelope is tough, with a strong "wild" taste. Others insist antelope's flavor is delicate. An independent food research group was retained by the Pronghorn Antelope Council to conduct a taste test to determine the truth of these conflicting assertions once and for all.
First, a Grade A Choice Angus steer was chased into the Red Desert of Wyoming a mile and a half from a road and gut shot several times. After some of the entrails were removed, the carcass was rinsed using water seeping from an exposed coal seam and dragged back over rocks, sage brush and bentonite flats to the road. It was then thrown into the back of a pickup truck complete with freshly sprayed Rhino Lining and immediately driven 85 miles over dusty roads to the nearest tavern where it was allowed to season though the afternoon and into the night before being hung in a garage late morning of the following day.
After being sufficiently blown by flies it was skinned and rolled around for awhile on the black spot on the concrete floor of the garage. Within the limitations of the butchering environment, strict sanitary precautions were observed throughout the test, for instance, dogs and cats were allowed to sniff and lick the steer carcass, but most of the time were chased away when they attempted to bite chunks out of it.
Next, a sheet of plywood left from last year's butchering was set up in the basement on two saw horses. The pieces of dried blood and hair left from last year were scraped off with a wire brush last used to clean out the grass stuck under the lawn mower.
The skinned carcass was then dragged down the steps into the basement where a half dozen inexperienced but enthusiastic and intoxicated men worked on it with meat saws, cleavers, hammers and dull knives. The result was 375 pounds of soup bones, four bushel baskets of meat scraps, and a couple of steaks that were an eighth of an inch thick on one edge and an inch and a half thick on the other edge.
The steaks were seared on a glowing red hot cast iron skillet to lock in the flavor. When the smoke cleared, rancid bacon grease was added, along with three pounds of onions, and the whole conglomeration was fried for two more hours.
The meat was gently teased from the frying pan and served to three intoxicated and blindfolded taste panel volunteers. Every member of the panel thought it was antelope. One volunteer even said it tasted exactly like the antelope he has eaten for the past 27 years.
The results of this scientific test conclusively show that there is no difference between the taste of beef and antelope...
