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I have heard that Oryx tastes very good but does anyone have any concerns about all of the nuclear testing over the years at WSMR contaminating the meat?

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Yup. Im starting to glow in the dark. Just from eating Oryx from the last hunt in December. I heard that you need to cook it a little longer.(haha)

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That's a great looking animal .Did you eat the meat ? What would it taste like ?

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They taste very good. Sort of a cross between beef and Elk.

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I'm gonna sound stupid but here it goes[8D]
Are oryx native animals or whats the deal with them? I've never heard of them before[:-]

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In the 1960’s the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish introduced into New Mexico the African oryx , also known as the gemsbok, which is native to southern and eastern Africa and Saudi Arabia. According to a the subspecies introduced into New Mexico comes from the dry dune country of the Kalahari. Both the bulls and the cows have long, relatively thin, horns. They are swift runners and in their native habitat, co-exist with several African predators, including lions and leopards. American predators are ineffective in controlling populations. Oryx can exist with little or no water.

Game biologists say that no one anticipated how prolific they would become or how well suited they were to the desert climate of New Mexico.

(Source: 7/2001 press release by the White Sands National Monument.)