Nice job Drop Tine. I strongly agree that enviornment and food source effect the taste of the deer meat. It also effects the smell ofthe meat. Most of the deer I kill have been in my orchard June, July, August and eat thousands of apples. I and my butcher when I use him , for trophy caping and sasuage can smell the apples in the deer meat and you can sure taste it, very sweet meat. Ones that are tracked for long distances do get a funny taste from the adrenilin in the meat. Also I was at the butcher last year being taught the finer points of cutting up the deer and he was working on a deer from a SWAMP habitat and it smelled like skunk cabbage or swamp mud. The butcher says it will not eat well either. ECH stew mwat..

Last but not least get use to eating deer very rere and it is always juicy and tender!!! Striper Phil ONE SHOT ONE KILL

More opinion from me like As111hol11 we all have them.