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Originally posted by MARK H. YOUNG:
Folks,

The pronghorn and dall sheep are my favorites for NA game by a long way. Pre rut deer and elk can be pretty mild. A rutty buck is a little hard to take. Moose was always our staple in AK and better than caribou.

My favorite African game is Tommy chops shot that day followed by a hartebeest backstrap that I got to cook myself. Leopard tenderloin fried in butter and garlic is pretty special too.

Mark

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Originally posted by DLS:

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Originally posted by MARK H. YOUNG:
Folks,

The pronghorn and dall sheep are my favorites for NA game by a long way. Pre rut deer and elk can be pretty mild. A rutty buck is a little hard to take. Moose was always our staple in AK and better than caribou.

My favorite African game is Tommy chops shot that day followed by a hartebeest backstrap that I got to cook myself. Leopard tenderloin fried in butter and garlic is pretty special too.

Mark

Leopard tenderloin or back straps are better than most people realize. Quite good, IMO.

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Originally posted by crbutler:
None of our game animals are antelope.

Moose, elk, and deer are all cervids.

Pronghorn is closer to a goat, and the mountain goat is a goat.

We do have very limited mountain sheep as well. They do not taste like domestic sheep at all.

Bison is rather comparible to other bovines.

In my mind, antelope taste closer to our domestic animals than to deer. It is a lot less gamey tasting than our deer.

I do think that the fact that your game is generally found quickly and processing starts almost immediately is a large part of why in general African game tastes better. I personally don’t think that you can generically state “antelope taste better than North American game meat”… occasionally I’ve had fairly strongly tasting African animals, and I would put the moose I shot in AK up against eland, although eland does tend to have more inter muscular fat than moose.