Best wild game meat

[AKDoc]

Moose is my consistent favorite for sure...year after year. I'm really meticulous in my field care!

Dall's sheep is also really good.

Black-tail deer has been +/- for me. We cooked back-strap in the field one night in PWS in October, and it was the very best. However, mostly it has been gamey for me, although I know many who love it. We use it for sausage.

Ptarmigan is excellent!

Spring black bear is ok...it makes a great chili, although my wife just doesn't like to eat it.

My least favorite is caribou, although winter caribou was excellent.

Closely tied for least favorite is mountain goat...the first one we got was tough and not that tasty, but the second one was better.

I once had brown bear. I was on Kodiak black-tail hunting, and we knew a local family who had been part of a community winter subsistence brown bear harvest. I really wanted no part of it, but I've got to say that it was outstanding. A lot of work went into it by the cook, and she did a great job. They were also very quick to tell me that they would only eat a winter bear. (I can barely stand to skin them out in the fall after they have been on salmon all summer...the front paws and face can smell pretty nasty.

 

[davsco]

Squirrel is hard to beat.

sure it wasn't cooked the best, buy yuck, squirrel is the nastiest thing i've had. it was so bad even our dog wouldn't eat it.

can't imagine anything too much better than venison tenderloin!!

 

[Droppndrakes]

#1 Stone Sheep steaks
#2 Elk tenderloin
#3 pulled pork from wild hog

 

[Poser]

sure it wasn't cooked the best, buy yuck, squirrel is the nastiest thing i've had. it was so bad even our dog wouldn't eat it.

can't imagine anything too much better than venison tenderloin!!

Squirrel is great. It generally takes some work, though.

 

[Poser]

Raccoon is some fine eatin’, too.

 

[Dzel777]

Pronghorn, cow elk, mule deer..

 

[Coondog]

1.Axis
2.Elk
3.Whitetail

 

[Donjuan]

What is your favorite? Anything wild game

I will add by asking. Is caribou and
rams/sheep any good to eat?

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Bobwhite quail

Also love Turkey breast right off the gobbler

And tenderloin right out of a fresh killed whitetail

 

[Donjuan]

Beaver is pretty dang excellent.

The animal or....

 

[netman]

Love all the mentioned wild game. Gotta throw in snapping turtle and frog legs.

 

[Poser]

The animal or....

The animal. Seriously.
The other, well... it’s hit or miss.

 

[Shane]

Axis is as good as anything I've ever eaten. Elk, bison, desert bighorn....all excellent as well.

 

[Blinginpse]

I find it hard to believe goats sheep rams are good knowing how a ol farm sheep or goat smells lol

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[sneek-ee]

Mountain Goat
Moose
Chuckar
Walleye, Halibut and Salmon

 

[idahohikker]

Where’s the love for mule deer? I think it can be a little hit or miss but I’ve had some great ones, especially the steaks I’ve made from mine.

 

[Mountain Ash]

Not exactly my favorite but I'll throw a curve ball : seal. There is a lot of stigma attached to it (thanks PETA) but it's great stuff when cooked very rare.

I'd describe the taste as 80% venison tenderloin, 10% fresh liver from a young animal and 10% fish. Delicious.

 

[MuleyFever]

Any game meat properly cared for and cooked properly is great meat. I don't even know that I can tell the difference.

 

[Kodiak]

Antelope is my wife’s favorite. Big horn sheep is delicious but is a little harder to come by than antelope. A young elk is hard to beat too

 

[justin davis]

Moose and Pronghorn are my favorite of animals I’ve killed and eaten. Followed by Elk. Bighorn sheep was decent. Ate the oysters too.

 

[Shane]

I find it hard to believe goats sheep rams are good knowing how a ol farm sheep or goat smells lol

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I didn't expect my desert sheep to be good at all. I've eaten aoudad, and it's nasty. But the desert was awesome. Tasted similar to axis, actually. Just not as tender as axis. Not nearly as tough as aoudad though.