Agriculture fed deer

[Kmushrooman]

I grew up hunting deer around BIG agriculture. Once in a while you would be gutting one and it would smell like corn on the cob. They tasted good, really good. The soybean deer tasted great to just different. These deer would have very thick layers of fat on them. It was mass fat. I still hunt some agriculture deer but mostly woods deer now. The woods deer taste very good also but the flavor is distinct. The fat on them is not near as much. I think early season deer taste the best. That is the main reason I bow hunt. I think all deer taste great. Late season deer taste good but they just taste different to me. I like to butcher my own and I sure am careful with my process. This year I am going to try a blind taste test. Have my son cook up different ones and see if I can pick out what is what.

 

[Popcorn]

I agree 100%
Trigg county Ky big food plot deer are the best eating
Christian county corn field deer are next
Stewart county, TN deer getting by on buds, bark and bramble do not compare.

I like dressing out a young doe and finding that inch to inch and a half layer of fat and those big globs of belly fat.
I know that's some good grilling

 

[348Winchester]

Fat adds flavor regardless of the species.

 

[mike243]

What deer eat has a big impact of the flavor of all of the meat, eat some deer from up north in corn country then from the hardwoods of Tn, not sure about the big woods up north vs the big woods down here as I have never got to try that, the first deer I killed was living next to a 500ac soybean field, 1.5 year old 5 point, ate everything but the tail. ribs were great and haven't had any that good since. I plan on buying a blade for the Sawzall this year and cutting them up and revisiting this cut. I like seeing the big ropes of fat when dressing a deer, I can't tell what made it but it had to have some good stuff in it lol.

 

[Tn Joe]

I've hunted KS in the past and the deer from out there are by far the best I've ever eaten.

 

[Ski]

Best deer I've ever eaten I killed on a Wisconsin dairy farm. Mildest sweetest easiest eating deer meat ever. Totally different than big woods hill country deer eating acorns and tree bark.

 

[DC219]

Wyoming mule deer was probably my favorite. It had a touch of a sage flavor in it. However, a six month old deer from anywhere is about as good as it gets. If it wasn't so easy to mistake a button buck from a yearling doe, I'd take a lot more of them.

 

[lafn96]

Yep, grew up hunting our farm in Nebraska where they had all the corn and beans they wanted. Huge difference from the deer around me now.

 

[Kmushrooman]

Wyoming mule deer was probably my favorite. It had a touch of a sage flavor in it. However, a six month old deer from anywhere is about as good as it gets. If it wasn't so easy to mistake a button buck from a yearling doe, I'd take a lot more of them.

Young tenderonis they are tasty.

 

[backyardtndeer]

Killed a doe with my bow in Wisconsin, she was fat and cornfed. Very tasty.

 

[woodsman04]

I've killed plenty of deer in November with fat still on them. In the hardwoods.

That being said, every deer that I've ever killed or eaten(as far as I know) is a raw bone, acorn eating, privet and honeysuckle browsing, fescue and poa anna grazing whitetail. They taste fine to me. But the fat on them is not good at all. Leaves a terrible taste in my mouth.

 

[BigAl]

Where I hunt find lots of deer loaded with corn, all season. Even when there's no corn planted nearby. Strange.