Worst Wild Game Meat

[Shootmoore]

I voted mudhen.

I shot a half dozen one slow duck hunting trip a few years back so that my young lab would have something to retrieve.  Always one to use what I shoot if possible, I breasted them out and brought them home.  I marinated them in teriyaki sauce over night and smoked them into jerky (3 full pans of chips).  I took out my reward, and it was the nastiest, pastiest, foulest thing I have ever tried to eat.  I gave a piece to my dog (Mind you, she would eat cat poop from the box every chance she had, so she was not exactly of high standards when it came to culinary tastes...) and she spit it out and looked at me like I was trying to poison her!

Have not shot one since.

Hmm I am wondering if it is a Westside/Eastside difference?  Never ate a Westside mudhen before, maybe they taste bad from what there eating?  I found westside mallards to be muddy tasting to me as well.

Shootmoore

Ok I changed my vote, I just ate some mudhen shot in Western Washington last night.  Holy crap they were awfull!  I assumed a mudhen was a mudhen but these on the west side are baaaaad!  must be what they eat from over here what they eat on the upper columbia.  I feel bad for telling my buddy to shoot some now.

Shootmoore

[lokidog]

Other, coyote wasn't on the list.  Made the bacon I wrapped it with taste bad!  OK, so I grew up with the you shot it, you eat it thing.  I'll skip eating next time.   

On the other end, dolphin (juvenile) is the best I've ever tried.

[TEX-X]

i had a horse sandwich when i was stationed overseas... very greasy and tough... maybe add horse to the list

[Oldguy]

I had some reindeer stew in Anchorage one time; and I mean one time! It tasted pretty wild and I had to convince myself it was edible in order to finish the bowl. Tried canned whale in Japan once and it was great and reminded me of beef.

All ducks don't taste the same and how they are prepared makes a big difference. We sure don't all like the same things.

[bearpaw]

Those are some interesting stories guys. I added three more animals to the list in case you want to change your vote.

A couple friends told me they really liked peacock.

I never had the tenacity to try coyote....

Horse I have tried and what I had in Australia actually tasted good. A friend downunder claims horse is his favorite meat.

[TEX-X]

i guess the italians don't know how to cook a good horse penini! 

[bearpaw]

I imagine that it all depends on which horse you are eating, a yearling or a 20 yr stallion... 

[sisu]

Wolf eel

[bearpaw]

hey sisu, which was worse the wolf or the eel...

[lokidog]

Moray eel is actually pretty good, and I don't eat fertilizer, er, I mean wolf.  The coyote I tried was bad enough.   

[bearpaw]

I have heard of a few guys trying coyotes, I just couldn't bring myself to do it, skinned too many where the meat looked too green to taste good...

[ICEMAN]

I have heard of a few guys trying coyotes, I just couldn't bring myself to do it, skinned too many where the meat looked too green to taste good...

 

[sisu]

Old guide in Alaska tried cougar, and lynx. He said they both were so-so. The guy just about ate off the land, old school Shosone-German from the rez near Lander, WY area back in the day, so ya know old John was not BSing. I ate at his house often, never asked what hair was floatin on the gravy, and was never served a bad tasting meal.

BTW only cook real legs of beaver(buck tooth beaver for you SA out there). Cook the slowly in a stew the are awesome.

Black meat(aged seal) dipped in seal oil is aweful, as well as muk-tuk. You can't remove the oil with HOT coffee, brushing etc. just aweful.
Another bad one is stink head; fermented salmon heads

I was given a Bot(spelling wrong)egg by some Flips I know. They did it on a dare. I got the egg down & then it just levitated out by itself along with some extra.
Back to the Alaskan guide. He ate nearly all wild critters except the canine looking creatures. He never gave a reason.

[ICEMAN]

"Stink head"

Uh....yeah...... (Bad joke not posted to maintain "Family Site" status.)

[bearpaw]

sisu I have eaten quite a bit of cougar and liked it quite well, a catchop tastes a lot like a porkchop