im wondering this because i just started deer hunting this past shotgun season, my first day out a 8 point buck wondered past my stand and i shot him not were i should have, but i shot him...lol, after hours of tracking and dragging and makin the trip to tag him my father and i skinned it and was about to take it to a butcher when he had the idea that we do it ourselves, so we let it hang for three days then we went to work proccesing it the best we could and suprisingly we did a pretty good job, never having venison before and hearing alot of people talk about the gamey taste and the waxy after taste in your mouth i was kinda nervous about that first steak.....but wow!!!! it was really good no gamey taste, no waxy after taste . have any of you had venison that was "gamey"?