What animal has the best tasting venison?

[Dale Moser]

Wildebeest

One of my favorite food memories is sharing a plate with my better half at the rainbiw lodge in Houston. We had an elk chop and Nilgai tenderloin. Both grilled to perfection. The Nilgai being a tenderloin was a little more tender. The elk had a superior and much more robust flavor. One of the best steaks I've ever eaten. That spans several steak houses in Houston, one in Dallas a few in Chicago and one in NY.

It's important to keep in mind that "wild" game served at restaurants, was raised on a farm.

[c3products20]

Nilgai is good if it isn't in the freezer very long. Kind of like sand trout!! A young cow elk is hard to beat!

[Uncle Saggy]

Sika


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[bullets13]

Axis, but probably only because I haven't tried Nilgai.

[Gary Roberson]

Axis, and yes I have tried Nilgai. Elk can be pretty good if not rutting.
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Gary

[sotx]

Nilgai is #1 for me, then axis, elk, whitetail/muley

I could be wrong but Nilgai is not venison.
Axis gets my vote.

[chrigging]

Muledeer

[Aggiehunter08]

Texas whitetail that live in shin oak areas that are fed corn and protein year round. To be exact that area in Texas known as the South Plains Axis has great taste but the few I've tried were tough as a board. The meat was aged properly as well.

[Greenheadless]

I can't get my deer to breed with em tho to make venison

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A bunch of the things being listed here aren’t venison either, so, I just wanted tell the obvious truth as to the best.

[Tony Pic]

Axis backstrap on left. Whitetail backstrap on right. Big color difference.
The Axis just looks sweeter.

[Goodfellah]

TBH venison police are out there thick today, y’all watch your six. Keeping it Cervidae, I’m going to have to say the Oklahoma mule deer buck I took from near Waynoka, or any of the several axis I’ve had. These still follow the red deer hind.

[mfarmer]

How are we talking cooking this meat? grilling up steaks rare, ground up, tenderized and fried?

[big_smith]

Axis followed by Sambar. I have had fallow, red stag, mule deer, and WT. axis is by far the best. Sambar is tough if not tenderized but it was gooood.

[6.5 shooter]

Eland.

[220swift]

Red stag hind was probably my favorite, followed closely by Nilgai.

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