Maybe it is just Colorado Mule Deer because that is where I go to get them!
I live in CA and we have blacktail here, and in the area I live in it is a blacktail and mule deer mix. However, the food they eat kind of makes a gamy flavor if something isn't done, especially the ones that live in the low areas(below 5,000 feet) and eat acorns. The deer that live at 5,000 ft. and above usually have a superior flavor.
I like all these recipes, some of which I haven't tried and will make sure I try those next deer season. Hopefully I am going to make it to Colorado again this year.
Good eating to you all!
Like the old saying goes, you are what you eat!
I'm about 25 miles north of San Antonio in the hill country. These Whitetails around here are not gamey at all, or maybe just a hint of it. Around deer season they are practically corn fed. Axis deer have spread to within a couple of miles of my property, but I haven't seen one here yet. I understand that they are excellent eating.
Just a ways south of here where the country turns brushy with mesquite trees and a lot of other vegetation with thorns. Hard to walk through that stuff without some kind of protection (not to mention the rattlesnakes). Those deer have a lot more of that gamey taste, but they are still very good to eat, and they are a lot bigger.
Now there are definitly some big bucks over in Camp Bullis, which is within a mile of me as the crow flies, and usually we will see someone take a nice 12 pointer outside of the base as well, but it's rare. Part of the problem is that the hunters keep shooting the nice 8 and 9 pointers. If they'd let them get a bit older, we'd have a lot more 10 or 12 pointers in just a couple of years, or at least I think we would.
Good hunting and good eating to you as well!