Different types of deer meat

[cohoho]

Blacktails from the Olympic Peninsula!     Whitetails I grew up with back East (WV) eat alot of Acorns and taste--- not so good and seriously gamey...

[chad s.]

I've never liked the taste of mountain mulie. Wheat field deer on the other hand are delicious!

[Pazn25]

I like all the responses, meat care is huge for sure.  My uncle has a meat locker in his garage so we are able to take total control of what happens.  The Mule deer I shot was up in some high country and tasted AMAZING!!  The steaks I have eaten have not gamey taste at all.  Very close to tasting like elk.

[Jingles]

Prefer whitetails over mulies but that is what I grew up with as a kid.  Haven't had either  Mulie or WT have that Supposedly Gamie taste as long as it was a good clean vitals kill and the meat was taken care of right away. and all the connecting tissue was cleaned off before freezing.

[singleshot12]

It all depends on what they eat, a deer is a deer and they can all taste great. With that said I voted whitetail because the majority of them eat grain and alfalfa. Blacktail tend to be more browsers but I have eaten farm land blacktail that have grazed on grass,apples and corn most of their life and they've tasted just as good as any grain fed whitetail or mule deer

[lokidog]

It also depends how close to the rut you shoot the bucks.  Last year's buck was rutting hard by the early part of the second week of season and is/was a lot stronger tasting than the doe I shot first week or the buck my wife shot during early archery.

[Johnnyras1624]

I dont find any difference.  I have eaten whitetail and mule deer and if both are taken care of I could not pick one vs the other.  I have eaten iowa whitetails from pre-rut, post rut and everywhere inbetween.  I cant taste a difference, they are all excellent table fare if taken care of properly.

[coachcw]

blacktail fawn ! um yummy !

[WDFW Hates ME!!!]

Ive never had a bad or gamey big game animal. I did have a rib eye once from my wifes grandfather that i couldn't eat. It smelled nasty just cooking it.

We get our animals cleaned up and cooled down quick. Always been good eats weather it was a blacktail or a rutted up mule deer. I also take the belly hide and tarsal glands off before i touch any of the meat. Keep that smelly crap off your meat and you will like it a whole lot more.

[hillbillyhunting]

I chose blacktail, but really what came to mind was a fat old pot bellied alpine fed lazy sitka blacktail taken in early August    Their bellies are impressive to say the least.  Lucky bucks up there in August.

[FLIZZ]

All I know is that montana whitetail tastes horrid in comparison to Blacktail. Whitetail is way to gamey.

[lokidog]

All I know is that montana whitetail tastes horrid in comparison to Blacktail. Whitetail is way to gamey.

The whitetail I shot in SK last year was a lot stronger tasting than most of my blacktails and even the doe muley I shot three years ago.  He dropped in his tracks, was hung over night in 30 degree weather, and butchered and frozen the next day, so prep was not an issue.  It was just before the rut though and he was a forest deer not an agricultural one. 

There are so many variables that I think it is pretty hard to say one kind of deer is always better than another.

[mrmoskillz]

In Montana they prefer WT over Mulie and they hung the deer for 2weeks until a green mold was on the meat.  Then they wipe it off or fillet it off.  I thought it was nasty until I tried it and it was very tender and sweet tasting.