Elk. They are a very impressive animal, live in beautiful country, are fairly difficult to get, tags are easy to come by and one will feed me and my wife for 2 years.
After that I'd probably go with pronghorn. I like hunting the open prairies and having to belly crawl up on a good buck. I don't snipe at them from long range I usually get within 100 yards before I fire and that takes some effort.
For me deer have always been a meat animal. I hunt them to fill the freezer.