Question on taste
 

I know that the flavor of whitetails can be changed by what they eat (same as to beef), (also difference between elk, deer, moose, tried them all) but is there a noticeable flavor difference between mule deer and whitetail deer. I have never tried mule deer and I was just wondering.

RE: Question on taste
 

Yes there is, and mule deer aren't nearly as good.:D

RE: Question on taste
 

Mulies are a little bit tougher and a little more gamier, but it depends if the animal was calm, or running. Big difference.
Brett

RE: Question on taste
 

I agree, mulys definatly don't taste as good as whitetail. I think that gamier taste has somthing to with all of that sage brush they eat.

What's really bad is an antelope that's all fired up with adrenaline......[:'(]

It's really the only meat I don't really care for.

RE: Question on taste
 

An old guy at my church who is a retired butcher told me to bleed the meat out in a cooler for at least a week before eating it. I tried it on my deer last year and sure enough, the meat was fantastic.

RE: Question on taste
 

I would have to say from what I've ate, elk taste better than whitetail. It could have been the way it was cooked, I've only had elk a couple times.

RE: Question on taste
 

I agree 100 percent. Just keep putting ice on it and drain out the old bloody water.

RE: Question on taste
 

Right now I would rank the wild game that I've eatenas follows:

Moose
Elk
Wild Pig
Whitetail
Mule deer
Antelope
Black Bear

Birds:

Quail
Pheasant
Dove
Duck

RE: Question on taste
 

I would have thought black bear would be better eatingthan antelope.(never tried it but heard it was good tasting)

RE: Question on taste
 

the handful of times ive eaten black bear it was delicious

RE: Question on taste
 

Here's my ranking,,,
1.Elk

2.Moose

Wild Turkey

3.Cotton tail rabbit

4 Black bear

5. White tailed deer

6. Wild Hog

Alligator

Frog Legs

7. Bob white quail

8, Ruffled Grouse

9. Squirrel

10. Antelope

11. Mourning Dove

12 Chuckar Partridge

13Ring necked pheasant

Turtle

14[:o]Raccoon

15, [X(]Wood Chuck

16. Rattlesnake[&o]

RE: Question on taste
 

We do the same thing with our meat, it makes the meat taste wonderful.