Anyone know how Audad/Barbary Sheep meat rates? I'm sure if you put enough tabasco sauce, marinade, bbq sauce or other somesuch it could be ok but I've heard it's pretty tough.
Any thoughts?

I spoke to a couple of guys in New Mexico last year and they said aoudad and ibex were the best meats to be had. I strongly disagree.

I shot one in Texas in 1994 and carted it home in a cooler. It tasted like boiled wool army socks smell. It made my wife gag and afterward she wouldn't touch it. I ate it and made my kids eat it. We had aoudad stew, aoudad soup, aoudad chile, aoudad burritos, marinated aoudad, etc. To this day they still remind me of how bad it tasted.

I've eaten some pretty strange meat before and I can attest to aoudad being the worst. Compared to aoudad monkey, armadillo, rat, mouse, bat, snake, lizard, and varied road kill are delicacies.

I took one in TX about 10 years ago. The meat had an unusual flavor and was really tough. I ended up making most of it into sausage and jerky. It wasn't bad that way. Good thing about both sausage and jerky is that you can add spices to your heart's content to flavor it anyway you want.

I doubt if I ever shoot another one of them, but if I did, I'd do the exact same thing with the meat as I did with the first one.

Mac

That pretty much sums up everything else I've heard. I was just checking to see if I had been given bad info. It appears that Audad is definately not a meat hunt.

Thanks.

That pretty much sums up everything else I've heard. I was just checking to see if I had been given bad info. It appears that Audad is definately not a meat hunt.

Thanks

Audad and javelina ... a friend tells me they can be made good to eat ... I really like and respect him, but sometimes he jsut pulls my leg

I grilled the loin whole from a cull aoudad ewe I shot. I put on a heavy coat of my favorite grilling rub, wrapped it in plastec wrap and let it set overnight in the fridge. I grilled it the next evening on a very hot grill to medium rare and served sliced very thin. I would not say it tasted bad - it tasted like mutton to me. If you like mutton it is pretty good. But I dont like mutton at all so did not care for it. A good friend of mine who likes mutton absolutely loved it.

Sausage.


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I have eaten Audad once and compare totally agree with Grenadier. That and Javalina on the top of my would not eat even if I was starving list.

Ryan,
a couple of years ago I had Dzuik's in Castroville,Tx. make me up a batch of jalepeno cheese summer sausage using the meat from an Audad ewe (about 90 lbs. field dressed) and a hog I'd shot. Was pretty good stuff.
Best
GWB

In Wisconsin the saying was that if you add enough butter and cheese, anything will taste good.....Here the saying is that you you add enough bacon and jalapeno, anything would taste good.....what's the recipe in Texas?...BBQ sause?