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Re: Which deer is your favorite to eat ??
« Reply #30 on: May 02, 2011, 03:49:07 PM »
Whitetail

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Re: Which deer is your favorite to eat ??
« Reply #31 on: May 02, 2011, 04:09:49 PM »
I LOVE me some Mule deer! Dont know if its the high protien grass, from the elevation?
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Re: Which deer is your favorite to eat ??
« Reply #32 on: May 02, 2011, 04:22:24 PM »
Corn and Soy Bean fed whitetails from my place in Missouri.  Nothing better.
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Re: Which deer is your favorite to eat ??
« Reply #33 on: May 03, 2011, 01:52:46 AM »
I wonder how corn and soy bean fed blacktails would taste.  I have some grain corn and soy bean seeds to plant for the local critters this spring.

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Re: Which deer is your favorite to eat ??
« Reply #34 on: May 03, 2011, 02:02:53 AM »
-I like Mule Deer!
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Re: Which deer is your favorite to eat ??
« Reply #35 on: May 03, 2011, 02:51:18 AM »
Never had the chance to chew on muleys although a muley hunt is on the top of my list for a "dream hunt".  Between whitetail and black tail, i'd go with the black tail for the most part...although that farm crop white tail doe my cousin took last year was one tasty critter! 

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Re: Which deer is your favorite to eat ??
« Reply #36 on: May 03, 2011, 05:24:41 AM »
Whichever one I have cut up.
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Re: Which deer is your favorite to eat ??
« Reply #37 on: May 03, 2011, 08:50:42 AM »
My 2008 mule deer was our best tasting deer to date, I've had whitetail & blacktail but the mule deer was the best.  I attributed it to my best meat care so far, never really thought about different species tasting different. I had shot him when he was calm with my bow & he bled out in about 15 seconds, I had him quartered , down the mountain & on ice cooling in 2 hours. Tasted great ! We actually fed hamburger to lots of family & friends & no one ever knew the difference. First time for that. I shot him up in the Bumping , maybe he ate better all spring down low ?  Out of meat now & need another this year. Mike

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Re: Which deer is your favorite to eat ??
« Reply #38 on: May 03, 2011, 08:59:07 AM »
My 2008 mule deer was our best tasting deer to date, I've had whitetail & blacktail but the mule deer was the best.  I attributed it to my best meat care so far, never really thought about different species tasting different. I had shot him when he was calm with my bow & he bled out in about 15 seconds, I had him quartered , down the mountain & on ice cooling in 2 hours. Tasted great ! We actually fed hamburger to lots of family & friends & no one ever knew the difference. First time for that. I shot him up in the Bumping , maybe he ate better all spring down low ?  Out of meat now & need another this year. Mike


Mike your right on, my blacktail this year was ridiculously good,  i attribute it to the fact that he was grazing for awhile pretty much pressure free, and I thwacked him with a double lung and heart shot. from arrow impact he was down and out in less than 2-3 minutes ran about 25 feet. Had him gutted within a half hour, hanging skin off in 1.5 hours and at the butcher the next morning.

I'm out of meat now though so its time!!!!
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Re: Which deer is your favorite to eat ??
« Reply #39 on: May 03, 2011, 09:03:21 AM »
Most years I would put Whitetail at the top, but this year's SW Wa. blacktail is the best ever!

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Re: Which deer is your favorite to eat ??
« Reply #40 on: May 03, 2011, 10:03:40 AM »
Whitetail or Mule Deer......

As long as they are grain fed.

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Re: Which deer is your favorite to eat ??
« Reply #41 on: May 03, 2011, 10:05:29 AM »
I think they spell it differently.

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Re: Which deer is your favorite to eat ??
« Reply #42 on: May 03, 2011, 10:19:19 AM »
Drop an e and add an a? :chuckle:

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Re: Which deer is your favorite to eat ??
« Reply #43 on: May 03, 2011, 10:46:26 AM »
Thats why I have always loved bow hunting .. early season deer are awesome ..does not matter which one neither .... as long as its a quick kill not one gut shot and chased 3 miles ..... :chuckle:

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Re: Which deer is your favorite to eat ??
« Reply #44 on: May 03, 2011, 11:03:33 AM »
the one in my freezer
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