The diet the deer has been eating, a clean shot, and good field dressing and butchering is even more important to final eat-ability.
^^^^^That right there^^^^^
There's a world of difference in flavor between a midwestern whitetail that grew up on field crops and acorns, and a western muley that grew up on sage and briars.
We hunt in the rockies and when we kill a muley we about have to make jerky out of the entire animal-not a bad thing but as Augie says, Pinecones vs. corn, beans, sunflowers and pears just don't convert the same. :-))
