See... I'm kinda new here... so, my first reaction to (nearly) all these posts was "he he... these guys are try'n ta yank someone's chain!".
Butt.... if I am not mistaken... you guys are serious!
Please.. tell me... what is a "sagebrush deer"?
Sounds like I've been awful dang lucky to never run into one a them! Go blind try'n ta count all of them points! Perty chewwy, but great fer kindling!
Now... my 'ole Pappy... (well, maybee not him, butt one of my mentors 'an through personal experiance) taught me that game meat(meening deer, elk, prarie goat), barring extreem circomcisions..er..circumstances like extreem winters where a critter is living off of it's own body fat, hopped up on hormone, jus' run from the next county, older than dirt, etc, was only as tasty as the way it was taken care of after the harvest'n.
Every forkfull of antelope I have taken was so tasty 'an delicious, I have seen grown men weep at the thought of an empty plate.
I have taken muley's above timberline, 'an down so low I needed scuba gear, 'an I hafta say, not one precious once tasted anything like sagebrush.
I can only speculate, having never kilt 'an et one, that if whitetail is so far superior than mule, then ittid be like extraterestrial or sumthing...outta body maybee.
Kinda makes me wonder why anybody'd spend all that money 'an time to come out here 'an kill a stinky 'ole muley?
But then... you guys are jus' yank'n my chain, right??
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