I'll be honest I think the "gamey" taste is in some peoples head.

Grass fed beef doesn't taste like grain fed beef, same for wild game.

I have shot for sure one, if not two bucks that were just nasty tasting and smelling
both were shot with clean, DRT shots, gutted, washed and hung in cold storage in short time.
I did my part..

Family wouldn't eat it..
it tasted like it smelled

my wife basically told me not to bring home any more bucks and all I shot were does for meat..
I have shot a few cull bucks, 5 years old that I aged on ice and drained water every day for a week and half that were perfectly fine

I’ll agree, the Texas buck I shot this year was horrible. He looked liked he had ran the Boston marathon when I plugged him chasing a doe and even leaving him on ice for 5 days he tasted like turd soup after smoking the back straps into jerky for 14 hours. He smelt like hell when he was gutted so unless your into eating antlers he was a waste of a bullet outside him making a great mount.

Grass fed beef doesn't taste like grain fed beef, same for wild game.

Very good article for sure
Thanks to the OP for linking it here.

We've always processed all of our own game and as a young kid also processed all our own beef, pork, chickens, etc on my families farm.
I for one love the flavor of venison and always have. I've NEVER had a single steak from a deer or elk that was 'too gamey'. In fact, most of the time I wish it had a little more of the venison flavor to it.

I am the same way with fish. I do not like tilapia at all because to me it is basically flavorless. I love the fish flavor and have rarely had any fish cooked any way that I didn't like.
I've learned over the years that it is all about how you clean your game and fish. We used to catch giant flathead and bluecats down and choke canyon and let me tell you that when you clean it correctly it is better than any small catfish. The trick is to trim the fillets and get all the yellow fat and reddish brown meat along the backbone off. I do this even with the catfish we catch from our two ponds that weigh 2 - 10 pounds.

Don't get me wrong, I do love a good beef or pork steak but given the choice I'll take chicken fried backstrap or tenderloin over the best ribeye steak any day of the week!

Guess I've been lucky.

Haven't eaten a deer yet that I though had an off flavor.

I've eaten every pig we've shot including boars up to about 250 lbs, and I haven't had a bad tasting one yet. I've had multiple that smelled horribly, but have never found that to carry over into the meat.

Amen. I've got a 200lb boar in my freezer (in the form of bratwurst, hams, and straps) and he's delicious. I don't slight people for leaving big pigs in the field, but to me, most big pigs are just more of a good thing.