Ok, I have a few suggestions for you, and some of the rest of you, alot of the bad taste on any deer comes from not cutting as much fat as you can get off, and all of the slick stuff you see on the meat, this makes it tough, and bad tasting, another thing you shouldn't just take a deer and cook it right out of the deer, after cutting it up and freezing and your'e ready to cook your deer, unthaw it, then put your meat you have chosen into a bowl or something that will hold them, then take a cup of vinegar in it, a 1/2 cup water and then a tablespoon of salt, this will get rid of the bad smell and "gamie" taste. You only have to do this for a couple hours, then you can do what you want with it, but I prefer to do as I said then to take it and thinly slice it, then take it and season and flour it and fry it in canola oil and butter, then take warmed cream of mushroom soup over it, it kicks @SS!...but right now im expirementing with jerky, never made it before, always made steaks.