Most delicious big game meat?

[LEVRLOVR]

I need a good recipe for Javalina.

Going after some with a crossbow this year.

 

[wankerjake]

I need a good recipe for Javalina.

First dig a hole in the ground. Insert pig. Bury it. Then forget where you buried it

Ok, we've all heard that one. To be honest, javelina isn't bad. It really gets a bum wrap. I heard the key was to skin them imediately because they have glands in the hide that taint the meat as the glands leak into the meat after the animal dies. I've only eaten two, but we skinned them immediately and then quatered them into roasts and crock potted them. Both were pretty good, especially the yearling I got. It's the same as anything, take care of the meat and it'll taste good.

I'd like to add another meat to the all time favorite list: squirrel. Man, young squirell browned then baked, with mashed potatoes and squirell gravy...priceless. Definetely one of my all time favorite meals. Every bit as good as elk. There's no other reason to shoot them.

Another one: Coues whitetail. The fat is every bit as good as bit as beef. Very delicate flavor, outstanding. And way more fun to get than beef. Problem is, not much on 'em. They're a miniature deer, the one i got this year was 2 1/2 years old, and I got around 40lbs of meat.

 

[d2wing]

I like moose best lean and dark meat. Elk is really good. I don't like bear meat but some do. The last deer I shot was really good even though he was a big old woods buck.

 

[millertyme]

IIRC, moose was pretty dang good. Elk is good, and the whitetail back east were pretty good. Mule deer not so much. I've heard caribou is pretty tasty, antelope is pretty wild tasting, and bear of any kind is pretty greasy. Never heard much about goat, but one thing not on this list is Dall sheep and I have heard that is one of the best tasting wild game from up north.

 

[tango2echo]

I don't share Elk Backstrap or Tenderloins with ANYONE.....

With that said, that deer stew last night was pretty darn tasty...

 

[Gatorbait]

I don't have the opportunity very often to eat game. My father, however, was an anthropologist who spent quite a few years with an island tribe in the southwestern Pacific before I came along and spoiled his racket. He was especially partial to long pig. I don't think we have that species here in the States, but it was quite common there.

 

[sdhunter]

well i have ate white tails, mule deer, antelope, wild ferol hogs, and after 8 years of applying for a south dakota elk tag, this year i have finally got to taste a south dakota bull elk, it was worth the 8 years.

 

[Big Bill]

American Bison is the best! On the poll, I voted for moose. My father went to Canada and got one when I was in HS. I've never been lucky enough to have a tag myself, even though there is actually a season on them here in Idaho.

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

I can't vote; haven't tried most. Interesting poll, though.

 

[Dr.Rob]

Field preparation is everything. You shoot it clean, it will taste better. You clean it and pepper it and get it cooled down quick it will taste better.

Antelope can be prepped even on a HOT day with a just a few gallons of water and a large cooler. Antelope makes some fantastic meat, though the cuts are small say compared to elk. But pronghorn and elk are definitely my favorites.

I've heard of all the African game that gemsbok is supposed to be really good.

 

[rondog]

I'm not a hunter nowadays, and apparently I've never experienced any wild game that was prepared by someone who knew what they were doing. I can't recall ANY wild meat that really tripped my trigger, but I'd have to say elk in a restaurant is the best I've tried. Well, I do recall some very good whitetail grilled with peppers and onions at a party once. Duck and goose are among the most disgusting things I've ever tried. Seems like all the family cooks of my youth thought the wild meat needed to be killed twice, I guess.

 

[tommyintx]

elk is pretty much amazing.

 

[CoRoMo]

I can't vote; haven't tried most.

There's no requirement here. Of those that you've tried, which did you find to be the best?

Antelope makes some fantastic meat

I've always heard that, but never believed it until I read enough accounts here that I now have to get me one of those goats!

 

[Art Eatman]

Gatorbait: "Long pig"? Long pig is people, as in cannabalism.

 

[pwillie]

Goat can be very tasty! Down south,the summer BBQ is sometimes done with a young goat,slow cooked.