Yes --- but it's just that not all who call themselves hunters are really hunters --- there are some who are having more fun pretending they're hunters --- drinking tons of beer and shooting everything in sight. They give the real hunters a bad name. The best tasting deer are those corn-fed ones that raid the farmers corn fields and gardens. Very tender meat.
Yeah, I know. It's getting harder and harder, even out here SW Colorado in the mountains, to find hunting areas without some A-Holes screwing things up.
As far as the tenderness of the meat, I believe it lies in the kill...swift and clean, or a bad shot and chasing it down. The adrenalin pumps when the quarry is wounded and runs...tougher meat. As far as taste, corn fed is a mild taste while deer that feed on more "natural" forage have a little gamier taste, which I perfer.
Of course, the prep and cooking method can cure just about anything........now I'm hungry.
FMCDH(BITS)