Antelope-for the table

[Lou (Louis)]

First, and most important: I am in no way trying to disrespect antelope or, God forbid, antelope hunters, ok?

I have heard that antelope is just ok, at best. Rinella, in one of his shows, mentions this and says that antelope gets a bad rap.

So….

Please rate it, again for the table, on a 1-10 scale 1=rotting road kill; 10=awesome

Thanks!

 

[PNWGATOR]

Antelope is delicious

 

[wapitibob]

Best game meat I’ve eaten next to a white tail.

 

[TylerTheTerrible]

1... if you shoot one, i'll take care of disposing of the meat for you.

 

[William Sublette]

Whitetails are for jerky


Antelope are for the grill

 

[Fatcamp]

We get them on ice asap.

Excellent food. Things are easy to kill but our population is so low we won't shoot them. Sad all the way around.

 

[lonelobo]

Antelope is delicious. Right behind elk in my book!

 

[MTtrout]

Anyone that says antelope are not good table fare are either sad ass cooks or don’t know how to deal with meat once one the ground

 

[sndmn11]

I'd quit hunting deer and elk just to eat phorns if I could shoot enough.

 

[Laramie]

Come on guys, tell the truth. They really aren't any good and new hunters shouldn't waste their time

 

[Stache Attack]

Get it out of the guts and off the bone. Wife and I prefer antelope over all else. We shoot elk, mule deer, whitetail about every year. It does have a funky smell even when taken care of. Does not mean it tastes bad. Some of the finest meat on earth!

 

[Banded_spooney]

It’s the only game meat my mom will eat if that says anything

 

[crrakcrrak]

Antelope is delicious

 

[Curmudgeon]

Sous vide and pan seared antelope. There's not much better table fare than that.

 

[dylanvb]

I have only had it once but it was one of the best meats in my opinion.

 

[EdP]

We have had elk, deer (mule and whitetail), black bear, and pronghorn. The wife and I both like pronghorn the best of all of them. It can get quite warm on sunny afternoons in pronghorn country, even in Oct, and generally there is no shade to be found. Some forethought is needed at times to get an animal out of the field and cooled down quickly.

 

[Zdub02]

Jumping in to echo previous comments. Antelope is fantastic table fare and my personal favorite game meat. Wish I could hunt them more often.

 

[bdan68]

To me it tastes exactly the same as deer and elk. I can never tell the difference. To me it's all good.

 

[jeremy.b]

Get it out of the guts and off the bone. Wife and I prefer antelope over all else. We shoot elk, mule deer, whitetail about every year. It does have a funky smell even when taken care of. Does not mean it tastes bad. Some of the finest meat on earth!

Until last year I had never noticed the smell and had some doubts about people having problems with smell/taste of antelope (all of ours have been exceptionally good table fare).

In late Sept last year my wife and I shot two bucks, maybe 4 miles apart. Mine was noticeably rutty smelling on the ground, hers was not at all. Both were bang-flops, we processed them the same way, gutless quarters, keeping hair off the meat, on ice/cooling off within 1-2 hrs of hitting the dirt. So basically all the right meat care things.

Even now when we cook meat from my buck it has a very noticeable, I'll call it "antelope", smell. Its not a rutty smell necessarily, but its there, and consistently. Meat still tastes great, but if a person is sensitive to smell I can now totally see how they could be put off on an antelope that has it.

The meat from my wife's buck on the other hand, hardly any smell to it, just a pleasant sweeter smell when cooking.

 

[Kurts86]

I like antelope meat but I’d put it solidly below elk but above mule deer. It’s definitely unique in its flavor. It’s like a more subtle mule deer sage flavor but with a better texture closer to whitetail.