Just wonder what you guys think is the best tasting african game?

IMHO on the BBQ, Eland. Had some summer sausage made from Gemsbok, a little greasy, great flavor.

Eland.
Buffalo.
Sable.
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All plains game.

I love eating them all.

Zebra tender loins without doubt.

Anything Henock, the chef at Hunters Namibia cooks.

Without a doubt, springbok filets. three times as good as eland tenderloin and I thought, when I first ate Eland, it was the best meat I had ever put in my mouth. Pieter, You must have a better cook/recipe than when I tried Zebra. I am not trying to argue with you but that is the nastiest meat I have ever been fed in Africa. What is the secret because I want another one and I want to prove ME wrong.

Bushbuck
Reedbuck
Gerenuk
Dik-Dik

The 4 K's

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Originally posted by Pieter Kriel:
Zebra tender loins without doubt.

+1 with eland close behind, kudo gemsbock springbock all close

hows elephant and hippo?

Eland is great, but after eating it for nearly everyday for almost 10 days in Namibia in 2007, it got boring. My favorite it gemsbok filet. Mountain zebra is pretty good as well.

My favorite is fried Gemsbok filet.

the best one is the one on the plate ie. there all good tommy chops

Can't believe Hook didn't say bushpig!

I have not eaten any African game yet but I have eaten a lot of game in India and in NZ.

After around 40 years of eating game, I have come to the conclusion that the taste of the meal depends on the following - in order

1. How the animal was killed - quickly & well bled etc.
2. How it was cooked - good meat can be ruined by a bad cook!
3. Age, cut etc of the animal - old bulls taste like old bulls IMO - even if cooked well
4. What the animal has been eating, season etc. Animals shot during drought and under stress do not tase as good as that shot when there is good feed.
5. Individual taste - I could never get myself to eat monkey (Black langur) in India though my friends raved about it. But I found the palm civet one of the tastiest meats ever.

Gemsbok was great. Zebra was nothing to sneeze at either pounded thin and done as schnitzle (aka chicken fry)

Gemsbok!!!

All the game I killed in Namibia and South Africa was excellent table fare. The best I had was a springbok backstrap roasted over the coals with a cold Tafel. Second up was mountain zebra.

Eland T-bone steak for me!!

Spit braai of warthog that I hunted myself Everyone loved it, next time they wanted a whole springbuck.


But I think my favorite is Eland!

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Originally posted by bwana cecil:
Can't believe Hook didn't say bushpig!

I say, a bit cannibalistic eating that which you love. I do not think that even Hook would stoop that low.

Svinejakt, please take that picture off, it is going to break poor little Hook's heart.

Another vote for warthog, totally amazing taste. Wife loved it as well!!!

Svinejakt, det så gøtt ut

Torbjorn

As far as my experience is concerned (35 years experience), I will go for Impala, Kudu and E land, keep in mind only BBQ is the only recipe to cook hunt meat, anything other than BBQ will ruin the taste.

In sub-continent like India and in Pakistan, the most favorite use of hunt meat in antelope family is SHAMI KEBAB, KOFTAY (meat ball with gravy) and BBQ at hunting spot, if someone need recipe, I would love to share, but ingredients must be available with you before going to start to cook.

The best and worst venison I have eaten in Africa is the Mt Reedbuck. Like others have said it is in the handling of the animial and the prepration of the animal. Second was fresh liver from a Bushbuck. Grysbok soup is excellent.

On my first safari my favorite meal was Gemsbok stew. As far as pure meat the eland steaks were awsome.
On the last one it was a dead tie between Nyala and Klipspringer.

Any meat you do on a bushveld fire with ironwood with good friends and clients with a cold beer in your hand after a great hunt

Luan

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Originally posted by Torbjørn:
Svinejakt, det så gøtt ut

Torbjorn

Det var nydelig. Ute på en farm hos gode venner, kald pils og sola midt i trynet

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Originally posted by sjb:
Another vote for warthog, totally amazing taste. Wife loved it as well!!!

The guy who did the spit braai injected buttermilk first, then orange juice and put holes which he stuffed with bacon. Pig in pig. When on the spit he basted with his secret recipe sauce. Everyone loved it

Best = Lamped [or one eyed dog hunted] out of season on property with no permission to hunt.

Second = Daylight shot from vehicle out of season on property with no permission to hunt on

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Still just edible = Hunted on foot in season with license and permission to hunt on property.

The best meat I ate was after I got my elephant, my dad and I went over where all the camp staff were living,and sat down with them and ate elephant meat,all from the same frying pan,no untisels,or plates. were they ever shocked. But was it good.

Eland, buffalo and bushbuck for me!

1)Eland
2)Impala

Hamdeni

I don't think I've had a bad meal in Africa (OK, I wasn't crazy about buffalo nuts) but the hartebeest lasagna I had in the Kalahari was likely the best meal I've tasted anywhere.

Have not eaten hippo yet, Steel. As for elephant, had a stew of elephant tail the night I shot it. Was tasty if a bit chewy.

If you've cooked or looked closely at a pot roast of beef, you see that the meat fibers separate in that way of cooking. The elephant stew did the same thing and I noted that the fibers are two or three times bigger than beef fibers. Next day we were back at the site and the slaughter team from the neighboring village was still at it. They'd grilled some of the meat and it was delicious, much as young Joe recounts above.

Regards, Tim

The best seems to be whatever comes out of the kitchen at the end of a long day. Honestly, can anyone tell the antelopes apart on the plate if the meat has been properly handled? I thought sitatunga had a unique flavour, but all the rest have just been variations on GOOD.

Dean

Eland t-bones, buffalo filets, hippo is good as well.

All served with fried eggs, chips, and salad, of course.

I can't claim very broad experience, but far and away eland is the best meat I have ever eaten. I would take that over cow elk, the best beef or anything else. I had Mountain Zebra tenderloins over a camelthorn fire in Namibia, which was also quite good. The biggest surprise, though, was the liver from my bushbuck in the Save in 2011. Liver is the only food of any sort I can't eat (and I have eaten some pretty strange stuff over the years.) Literally makes me gag. But as we were sitting around the fire with beer and snacks a couple days after I shot my bushbuck I was offered breaded fried strips of its liver. I have always tried whatever is offered me (hence, the "strange stuff".) It was really quite good! I wouldn't hesitate to eat it again.

Hard to say.

I enjoyed it all.

The wildebeest we had was awesome, surprised no one mentioned it.

Porcupine ribs Mmmmmm

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Originally posted by fvh40:
Porcupine ribs Mmmmmm

The old timers always said that if you were lost in the woods you could eat a porky to keep from starving-- though you might prefer starvation.