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Preparing and Using Antelope Meat By Kevin Wheeler
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| Tuesday, February 10, 2009 |
Antelope is likely the easiest game to hunt animals successfully, but not the nicest to eat. Many hunters in Wyoming will not even bother to hunt Antelope as meat animals. Our family does not, because it is relatively easy to obtain, so the species is more easily used for teaching children to hunt.
Antelope has a lot of "sagey" or "gamey" taste to them. There are several theories about this:
1 - Some hunters say that depending on where the food was Antelope. They say that the Antelope was eating in the fields of corn or wheat taste better than those who have been eating grass on the native grasses and sage.
2 - Some people say that you need to get their shoulder as soon as you have one shot and gutted. These people say that the "off" taste that Antelope tend to have is caused by the drying process, after the animal died. If you get dead skin quickly, then you feel fine animal. They also said that you can not let up the hair from getting Antelope meat, while you are skinning it.
I can not say that is true, from my personal experience. With both my deer and Antelope, my gut of animals in the field, because I have to, but I was not offended me until I get the animals they house. (One of the benefits stay in the middle of nowhere, near the area huntable.) My first buck, a doe and got two years ago was both "sweet" tasting meat. We even made some steaks from a small doe.
3 - Others say that the gamey taste of animals because at that time to round up and active, even running. They say that the adrenaline will be the meat, and he has the characteristic off flavor. This person said that you need to shoot Antelope while napping or grazing, and have not been spooked, or alerted.
Antelope are very similar lean and nutrient content of deer, or elk. Very closely related to domestic goats. You can get about 35 to 40 pounds of meat from the Antelope and adults, or about 25 to 30 pounds of meat without bone.
Most people usually only make jerky and sausage meat from the Antelope. Some people soak their meat in the Antelope various fluids, including salt water or milk cans Generally, if you go to any in the marinade, do so for about half an hour.
We have also succeeded in placing Antelope "roast" in the crock pot, with some vegetables, and cooked that way, and exit such as roast beef another. To take sagey sense of the land of Antelope, break it up into colander, and drinks under the cold water. Then cooked with a little soy or beef boullion.
You can usually tell when you are cutting your Antelope, whether that will have a gamey taste, or not, by the smell of meat.
Antelope meat is not the best, but if you have the philosophy that you only find what you're eating, or if someone gives some Antelope, at a time when you need it, can be made palatable.
Written by Kevin R. Wheeler, assistant webmaster for the city of Medicine Bow, Wyoming - http://www.medicinebow.org Kevin is ten years of Medicine Bow.
Kevin can also find http://www.reluctantredneck.com |
posted by neptunus @ 5:25 PM
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