So here is another one for you. Young Aoudad, if cared for in the field and kitchen is hard to beat. I'm NOT talking about a 30 inch ram, but a 20 inch ram that is skin quartered on iced quickly and aged. Yum Yum....

I'll give away every Auodad,Pronghorn,and sagebrush eating Muley I get.

Last Aoudad I got was just coming off an alfalfa field, man was it good.

I really hate to say this but I make sausage out of WT and use the back strap from Axis for chicken fried steak. The rest of the Axis is sausage and hamburger. I then use the money I get for selling WT to buy Rib eyes from beef.

I haven't hunted all over the world but I agree. Last year I brought home an Oryx and an Eland (protein fed) and compared them to white tail and my beloved feral pork and there was no comparison to the Oryx. I've only eaten Black Buck once (back strap) and it was very good. I LOVE Axis but the Oryx was still better than Axis or Fallow IMO. Audad was nasty, I love cottontail...I guess the only game meat that I liked more than the Oryx was a young cow Elk. Wish I had some more of that!.

I need to venture out more, I've never had Elk, Oryx, or Eland.. Only exotic I've had was from an Axis I killed. I was expecting it to blow my socks off from all the talk about it, but it was just ok..

I would put Bison, Axis, Gemsbok, Fallow, Elk and Stag all above Blackbuck in that order (havent eaten Scimitar Oryx or Eland or i would expect them to be near the top)....it was better than whitetail and duck though.

A lot depends on what an animal has been eating. There is a vast difference in whitetail, there is no comparison between, one that have been browsing on white cedar and a farmland buck raised on corn, soybeans, and acorns. Just as a northern whitetail raised on white cedar, isn't very good, animals that eat a significant amount of sage aren't very good.

As others mentioned, what the animal ate, how the meat was cared for, and how (and by whom) it's cooked will all play a huge roll in how the animal tastes.

The blackbuck I shot tasted fantastic, but its diet consisted of mostly grass (because that's what was all around) and it was shot this year right around when all the rain was hitting Texas - so food was plentiful. Wife and I have cooked it several ways, but by far my favorite has been seared in a saute pan with some olive oil and a bit salt and pepper for seasoning. Let the meat rest for a few minutes after cooking, then slice and serve...



On the flip side, I shot an oryx - which everyone seems to love - and didn't have much to say about it. It wasn't bad, but not memorable.

Upland - Ruff Grouse
Big Game - Calf Moose
Fish - Arctic Char

Bison and Eland is the best that I have had.

Birds - Quail
Fish - Walleye
Game - Bison/Elk

Red stag

I will say this Eland is probably the best tasting exotic meat in my opinion.. We do a lot of pronghorn hunts in the Panhandle and few hunters will not take their meat thinking that its no good but honestly in that area or where we hunt its mostly winter wheat and not sage and its very tasty meat I must say.

Nilgai, Eland, wildebeest....

Fan of Gemsbok