I will throw in my 2 cents also, on any deer meat I will always soak it overnight in salt water which draws out the gamey taste, I have never tried milk for this, but I do soak liver in milk so I imagine it would work for deer also.

Any idea what the main diet of the deer was, I have had people tell me that some deer meat is funky smelling due to what they eat.

Here is another point that may have caused it to be strong, adreniline! I know that the few deer I have killed in front of dogs were stronger than any of the deer I have killed that were not being run. My cousin swore it was the adreniline due to the deer being run, we didn't run dogs, but if you are hunting on land that the floks running dogs do not hunt and their dogs run one down in front of you, you don't sit there and say " I will let him go because there not my dogs" you shoot him! Maybe the doe due to all the thrashing got herself pumped up with adrenilne.

The Tazman aka Martin Price
Founder and President of
Virginia Disabled Outdoorsmen Club