Best wild game meat

[Poser]

Beaver is pretty dang excellent.

 

[Blinginpse]

In ohio I hang it my cousins cooler for a week or so. I would like longer but
I need to get back to Florida.
In Alabama I dont age it.
I have no idea how to age it properly if its qtr’d or cut up.
Someone else might have info on that.

Oh ok thought u may had something else in mind.

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[deerhunt1988]

So you can taste the difference between elk and whitetail?

 

[Runningwater]

You can certainly usually taste the difference between elk and whitetail - but even more the texture is different, at least to me. Whitetail is finer grain than elk, elk is finer grained than moose. Moose has a "mouth feel" somewhat similar to beef compared to elk or, even more so, whitetail. Doesn't necessarily make it better, but you can tell the difference.

 

[Antarctica]

I'll tell you what it ain't. That'd be snake. Rattler specifically. I was at deer camp 20 plus years ago with my college girlfriend's dad and somebody brought that crap. Would have been better off chewing up a handfull of toothpicks.

 

[Trial153]

moose, early caribou, elk, Mt loin

 

[dwils233]

I'm pretty happy to see others besides myself rank antelope pretty high. I've always thought it gets a bad rap and would trade my deer for antelope any day.

Got a bighorn roast from a friend who killed an older ewe. Cooked it whole in the oven and kept it rare. Went over pretty good at a wild game feed and I enjoyed it quite a bit

 

[Touchdown88]

This sounds amazing. Bulgogi is one of my favorites! I sound like a broken record, but in Hank Shaw’s Buck, Buck, Moose cookbook he has an excellent recipe for bulgogi. I made a roast with it. But I think I’ll try slicing against the grain and then marinading like you did to get flavor on every bit instead of just the outside!

We just ate some of this for lunch. It was amazing! I like to turn wild game into Asian food dishes because they are so flavorful.

 

[Blockcaver]

Rated in order, best to still very good:
Thinhorn sheep (Dall and Stone)
Tule Elk
Bighorn sheep, August, sample size of three (two were mine)
Rocky Mt Elk
Roosevelt Elk
Moose
Quail
Chukar
Ruffled grouse
pheasant
Blue/dusky grouse
Bison
Muskox
Coues Whitetail
Antelope
Corn/Alfalfa fed mid-west Whitetail
High country mule deer in August
Pre-rut caribou
Black bear that is eating berries in the fall...used for soup and stew meat (even our spring bears are good for this)
Cougar
Mt goat, tough but good flavor

Some meat that I've had that wasn't so good:
Any animal that has laid over night, not gutted and not cooled down properly
One out of 10 antelope seems to have an off flavor
AZ javelina , sample size of 2 (Texas has been much better on a sample size of 3)
Goose
Sage grouse
Spruce grouse
Ptarmigan
Sharptail grouse (livery, but not bad in small quantities)
Desert sheep from NV in early Nov wasn't very good (sample of one)

 

[idahohikker]

Moose
Elk
Antelope

In that order. All about personal taste. I've shot 1 caribou. I'd need to be starving to death to ever eat that again. It wasn't a meat care issue either. He fell where I shot him on the last morning of the hunt. Immediately quartered and put on ice and into the plane.

Moose
Elk

In that order for me as well. I haven’t had many of the exotic critters.

 

[Harveyb]

1. Oryx
2. Moose
3. Antelope
4. Raghorn elk
5. Mule deer
6. Rice fat Pintail duck

 

[Mt Al]

Blue Grouse. Where's the blue grouse love on this list?? Someone give me an amen! It's excellent.
Antelope - by far the best meat of anything with hooves that i've shot. Never shot axis, caribou, etc..
Elk
White tail

 

[tt_johnsclist]

Duck - hands down
Moose
Elk
Whitetail
Wild turkey

No experience with antelope, goats, sheep. I’ve had black bear that would rank on either ends of the scale.

Farm raised bison is good... can anyone comment on wild bison?


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[tgus59]

When well cared for, I like all of the above. I'm surprised to see that no one has mentioned Doves, they are outstanding. I'll throw out Bullfrogs as top notch table fare too!

 

[wildwilderness]

A lot of it goes with personal preference. Here is my families preference-

Good-
Quail
Cottontail
Summer Sitka Blacktail
Young white tail/coues
Antelope/pronghorn
Sika and Axis
Elk
Pheasant
Bison
Moose

These one we didn’t care for, and my wife refuses to eat- worst last.
Black Bear
Wild turkey
Bighorn sheep
Mt Goat
Feral goat
Grouse
Goose
Caribou
Mule deer
Ducks
Any rutty bull/buck

 

[Where's Bruce?]

Beaver is pretty dang excellent.

I like the way you think.



But you're all wrong. Best by far is well-aged bison. Medium for most...



Rare for me.




My freezers have moose and elk (both shot in velvet) and they are not nearly as fabulous as bison (grass fed w/ yellow fat...not those grain fed buffs.)
In a perfect world a buffalo ribeye followed by some beaver would be ideal.

 

[bowieknife50]

Antelope is the best I've had so far


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[zpooch]

Cow bison by far
Next closest is calf elk

 

[gabowhuntnfool]

My colorado bear from archery season last year. Couldn't believe how good it was. My wife's favorite so far also.

 

[Roy68]

#1 Speed Goat
#2 Elk
#3 bobwhite quail

Then again I haven’t had as much as some others



And then I’m awfully partial to the grass fed beef we raise