antelope meat?

[chaney]

ok thank you everybody for the tips!

[lokidog]

Mine was great, shot in September about 1:00 pm, gutted on site, hiked to truck, asked rancher if I could drive across his place to access the edge of the BLM land, drove fifty or so miles to my friends house, skinned and butchered, in the freezer by dark.  I took no special care regarding hair oils.  That thing was good eating and much better than the deer I shot near Lake Shasta later that fall.

[sled]

Mine was great, shot in September about 1:00 pm, gutted on site, hiked to truck, asked rancher if I could drive across his place to access the edge of the BLM land, drove fifty or so miles to my friends house, skinned and butchered, in the freezer by dark.  I took no special care regarding hair oils.  That thing was good eating and much better than the deer I shot near Lake Shasta later that fall.

The buck I shot was in rut, a was STANKY!  Anything that touched the oil on the hair stunk for days. I remember driving home from Wyoming and smelling it on my hands after several soap and water washes.
  Damn he tasted good.
  Scent glands are on the cheek and rump.  If that oil gets on the meat, I'm sure it would be bad.

[butcher98951]

Me and my brother hunted Wyoming last year for antelope and the meat was some of the best I have had, as everyone one is saying its all in how you care for it. we shot them gutted them, skinned and deboned right there then into game bags and right on ice when we got back to camp to chill then we ate some or put in the freezer . good luck

[huntingfool7]

A group of us did a Wyoming antelope hunt a few years back.  I didn't fill my third tag because the critters have a very foul musky/sage smell to the hide.  Didn't believe it would be good eating.  We put an elk in the freezer the same year and the antelope got eaten first!
Good stuff.  When I do it again, I'll buy as many doe tags as they'll sell me.

Bring an awning to get out of the sun while skinning/quartering.  Pack it all in big coolers on ice and drive like hell to get home.  They're small animals, grind it all into burger.

[bobcat]

Grind it all into burger?      Why? You just got done saying you preferred it over elk. I cut as many steaks out of the hind quarters as I can.

This year I came home from Wyoming with two whitetails and two antelope. I didn't even bother keeping the meat separate when I cut and wrapped it. The packages are just labeled "steak."

[JLS]

I've never had a bad antelope.  Grinding it all into burger is the equivalent of making pepper sticks out of your tenderloins.

[washingtonmuley]

The bad tasting antelope is because people don't know how to take care of it. Shoot it,skin it and straight in the cooler on ice and you have some very good venison . Do not drive around with it all day in your truck with the hide on!!

[Curly]

I was a little apprehensive about antelope meat because my father in law swore it was terrible and "he wouldn't even feed that #*!$%& to his dog".  Well, I got 2 last year and 2 this year and it is   excellent tasting meat.  My FIL must not have taken very good care of the meat.

BTW - the backstraps are fairly large.  You can a lot of steaks off the straps.  Tenderloins are small, but still very much worth the effort to get them and fry them up.    I'd get as much steaks as possible out of the lope.  Very tasty.

[Stein]

Antelope is the family favorite here.  I bet 9/10 people that say it sucks have never had a bite.

[MtnMuley]

As far as eating goes: Lope's in the sage, no thanks.  Lope's in grasslands/alfalfa, taste great.

[RadSav]

Speed goat is always at the front of the freezer around here.  Only bad thing about antelope meat is there is never enough   Love that stuff!!

[fishingfool]

My wife and I were returning from an antelope hunt in Wyoming a few years back. West bound on 90, across montana on a blue-bird day, full sun, low 70's. A suburban blows past us, still along way from home, with 3 speedgoats on top of their wagon with their coats still on--wrapped in black plastic.We surmised they most likely still had the "filling" in them.Now there gentlemen,is some prime eating. fishingfool