Thread: What deer is this?

The weight of the head and neck relative to the body size - def isn't a sika and not sambar so really narrows it down a touch. Also quite short in the length of head although could be the camera angle a bit too!

The favourite deer meat for eating thing is a bit of an interesting one, the best meat is that which is properly prepared and treated I reckon. Had red which was garbage, not well butchered and carried out bone in in rubbish bags and left to sweat. Next with a bit of educmacation old mate gutted and boned it out and left it hanging overnight in 2degC which sorted out the heat and bone issue, much better and a longer drive home... Fallow if done properly and correctly hung just melts in your mouth, but like anything treated wrong its as gamey as. There's a lot to be said about taking the neck out at the base of the skull and letting the thing bleed out at the kill to get rid of a lot of the stuff that causes the gamey taste in the meat, although it's not a shot you take unless things are pretty much perfect.