I have shot a large number of Whitetail deer. Both bucks and does. I would not think Mule Deer would be all that different. Maybe some year I will get out west and hunt Mule Deer.

I had only one buck that was just nasty to cook and eat. We turned the whole thing into sausage and brats. And the sausage and brats were excellent. Otherwise the sex of the deer does not seem to matter when it comes to eating here. I think it has more to do with the age of the animal, where it lives and especially eats, whether its rut season, what was the temperature when it was shot, how soon was it cooled, and very important.. did the person that field dressed the deer do a clean job. I have seen some real idiots when it comes to field dressing.

For instance, when I lived in the southern end of Wisconsin, the deer ate corn soybean, oats, hay, and basically better then a cow. And the meat reflected that. Up in the north here, other then bait piles of corn, the deer eat acorns, and forage in the woods, fields, lawns and marshes for what they find. They do taste different then those corn fed babies in the south. I hauled some venison south one thanksgiving to make a special roast I make, and while they ate it all, Dad did mention he could tell that was a northern buck.