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Moose is, by a large margin, my favorite wild ungulate to eat. I like it much more than elk and even more than antelope (American or African). Everyone has their favorite.

1. Moose, 2. Whitetail/Pronghorn (tie), 3.Mule Deer, 4. Elk, 5. Black bear.

To be fair the only Elk I've ever eaten were killed & cooked by my late BIL Bubba Magnumitis & all the Moose were from Northern Ontario. I've heard great things about both Elk & Black bear but not experienced it. The Black bear experience was limited to 2 & both were late fall kills & not over bait/carrion or near dumps (one killed foraging in a blueberry patch).

Never having shot one, but eating plenty of it, not the store bought but wild, free roaming, bison rates right up there towards the top, IMO. Shot an old musk ox bull on Nunivak Island years ago, that was very flavorful. However, I threw some backstrap I'd cut into steaks on the BBQ and when I went to stick a fork in it to turn over, the fork darn near bounced off the steak! Very good flavor but it was about the toughest meat I've ever eaten! Ended up turning most of that into various types of sausage. Did have some cow musk ox meat that was an entirely different story than the bull.....tender and very flavorful!

A personal funny story about the musk ox. I'd sent a wetlock box of some silver salmon to my folks in Idaho, in 1989, along with 10 lbs or so of the musk ox meat. Later on. They told me they'd made some mince meat from the musk ox, again in 1989, which was probably good since it was so tough. I moved back to ID in 1997 and didn't give the musk ox mince meat a second thought. Around 2006, my mom was telling me that they had a church pie social and had made a pie from the canned mince meat....around 17 years after they had made it. I kind of chuckled and asked how the folks liked it! She said that it was the hit of the church social, with my dad chiming in, that he had mentioned they were probably the only ones in the USA eating musk ox mince meat pie. Didn't sound like they had too much concern or thought about it being around 17 years old!

Tonight is aoudad bratwurst with mashed potatoes. And some cheap Shiraz. Last night was aoudad sausage with farfalle pasta and a dijon mustard lemon-butter cream sauce. And some cheap Shiraz.

This is going in a different direction, but oh well...

Had Elk Braciole for dinner last night, with GF pasta and roasted broccoli (and homemade gluten-free bread). It was a school night so no vino (working today). We seem to be getting a real winter this year, (1st one in a long time) so a fairly-heavy game-based Italian meal really hit the spot. Snowing today even!

Didn't really want to put much effort into dinner last night, so I thawed a pheasant, fillet it out and threw it in the crockpot with a little apple juice, BBQ sauce, onion and seasonings, with roasted thin sliced potatoes and parsnips! Nothing resembling a gourmet meal but it was passable and hit the spot!

Not so healthy but, whatever, it's cold. Biscuits and gravy made from homemade elk breakfast sausage and simple drop biscuits seemed appropriate. Not every game meal needs to be fancy, nor is that realistic when venison is your go to red meat protein. I'll eat a brook trout to make up for it.