What ever you do I wouldn' t eat the meat!!!

not to poke fun at your harvest, but it does look weird. congrats just the same.

Stump_MN_Hunter, how do you prepare MOUSE anyway?Just wondering.On a real small spit or do you prefer the roaster???

to be honest to me it looks like a horreficly inbreed DeerLOL

I can assure anybody that looks at this picture it is NOT an elk
tail is to long
legs are to long and skinny
it is way to small (a calf elk ways well over 140 lbs)
colors are all wrong

i would say it is a fallow (spots body tail) of some sort

Definately a fallow deer. There are 3 colors: chocolate, spotted (look a lot like axis), and solid white. Pretty weird looking breed. Their antlers have brow tines like an elk and then sweep back to a palmation, not unlike a cariboo. They do eat well. That one should be tender.

Elk, red deer, and sika are all genetically related and can interbreed. I know a guy who bred a bull elk with sika does (150-200lbs). They bred and had babies with no problem, but the young was as big as mama at 3-4 months of age.

For the uneducated, there are many so called " game ranches" in Texas that started many years ago. Because of hogs, old fences, a lot of exotics have broken out of these ranches and spread to " nongame ranches" . I have one like bobo. We have blackbuck antelope, axis, fallow, and sika deer. All game is wild and freeranging because there are no high fences in the area. I happen to think that axis is the best eating deer out there. It is leaner than beef, but has some marbling in the meat to make it more tender and jucier than whitetail. They are also bigger than the whitetail in my area, by about 50 lbs.

Come on Bobo, who are you trying to kid? Unless that' s Andre the Giant' s leg in the background, that deer wouldn' t weigh in at more that 100 pounds MAXIMUM. (Andre the Giant died a few years ago anyway).

Put away your peace pipe and come back to earth.

Not sure what it is but if that thing goes 140# you must be the size of Paul Bunyan!

Definetly NOT a sika, legs too long and head to big.

Ill put my money on a crossbreed for sure.