I was a little leery about hunting antelope because of like you, I had friends tell me they tasted like sage or they just tasted terrible. The friend I hunted with had killed two in the past and he said they were delicious so I took his word, Our animals were taken to a butcher shop after we gutted them . The butccher shop skinned them immediatly and hung them in a cooler intil they butchered them a day later, quick froze and vaccum packed the meat. I was impressed by how good my animal tasted, my wife likes it better than deer venison and she loves venison. I have come to the conclusion that those who don'r like antelope meat or venison have eaten meat that was not taken care of properly before the animal was butchered. By the way, the area where I took my antelope was in high prarrie in NW CO which is mostly sage brush. If you are still considering trying for speed goats I will give you the name of my outfitter in CO. My sportsman's club roasts a whole deer on a spit in a hog roaster every year on hunting and fishing day at a facility owned and managed by the PA Game Commission for waterfowl. We give out samlples of the meat to visitors to the facility I cannot tell you how many people would tell us they tryed deer and it was awful, we convinced many of those people to at least try a piece, those that did asked for another piece and many came back later in the day for more. I suspect they ate meat from an animal that had hung in a tree, not skinned for a couple of days in weather that was too warm. The quicker you get the body out of an animal the better it tastes, I am sure you know that. Don't be afraid to go after antelope becasuse the meat is bad, that is BS. This is what the counrty looks like in NW CO, mostly sagebrush,