Which taste better ?

[lpcjon2]

So throw this around a bit which taste better a buck that has fed on farm crops or a buck that has fed on wood's food Acorn's ect.

[Dax]

A buck on farm crops, hands down.

[Spectre]

Both extremely good----simply different.

[Jake Fr]

buck on crop lands here taste simaler to beef kinda and the stuff that ive shot where where the have a lot of sage taste like sage i like the farm raised better

[wabearhunter]

deer from the woods, for sure

[Arwin]

I think the bucks mama tastes better!!  

[koger]

I never met a deer I didnt like, strir fryed, stew, summer sausage, bratwurst, chili, sloppy joes, meatloaf, drrroool, slooobbber. UH, sorry got go get a snack, be right back.

[Bonebuster]

Arwin...I AGREE!!!!!

But, a farm fed buck, no doubt has a bit less funk than a buck that sleeps where there is no traffic noise.

[sendero25]

Arwin is right,
The doe..leave the horns in the woods.
I'll pass on an old stinky rut infested buck the same way I'll pass on a boar hog.
I'll take the doe or gilt anytime, any day! I don't need to brag on the horns, everything else is going in the freezer anyway.

[Bobby Urban]

It is more important how it is taken care of and processed than where it came from or what it was eating.  I can cook backstrap from a UP buck and a mid-Michigan buck side by side and you could not tell the difference.  If the deer is quartered and in the refrigerator or on ice in a cooler hours or less from when it was shot it wont matter. Take good care of your deer and get it cooled quickly, you will find it tastes better when cooked. JMO
Bob Urban

[Butch L]

To me:
A farm fed deer would be good for having friends over that are venison timid
For those of us that love venison - either would be a meal made in heaven.

Butch L

[Groundpounder]

Farm field

[xtrema312]

I have had both and shot both, but like farm land deer best.  Maybe because I was raised in farm land and ate a whole lot more of them.  I will say that aging helps with northern deer as does attention to fat removal and such.  I still like does and yearling bucks for eating.  I ate about a 4-5 year old 9-pt this year that was shot in the late season after being all rutted out and having a foot injury form what looks like a slug.  I am glad he went mostly into jerky and grind for burger, snack sticks and sausage.  He was farm land, but not what I like for table meat.

[Brad_Gentry]

I'll take a plump 1.5 yo (buck or doe) over anything (don't care what it's eating).

[getstonedprimitivebowhunt]

I'm not much concerned with what they eat .. but that I'm eating them... Yummmmmmm ! Never had a bad one yet here in Ohio

[waknstak IL]

Love killin deer that are hittin the corn  They just taste way better to me. But they are all good if you handle em right.

[Bob B.]

Well, I reckon it is not that easy.  First off, red or white oaks?  Ceadar and brows or mast crops?  I like hay, beans and corn fed better, but it also depends on how soon the animal was skinned and how long it aged, as well as how quick or slow it died ( amount of adrenaline in the meat ).  I have found ageing about 10 days in a cool garage out of the sun ( 40 degress-ish ) to be ideal.  Age of the deer matters as well.  I guess if I had to choose one over the other it would be the deer near me that have a good dose of farm and mass crops.

[Chris Shelton]

hmm I never liked fat farm fed deer meat?!?!? I think I must be missing something!?

[ksbowman]

Listen to what Bobby Urban is saying, the meat that is taken care of the best will taste superior every time.

[NorthernCaliforniaHunter]

This is where proper handling, aging and butchering are paramount, followed by an intuitive understanding of how to spice it, pair it and cook it. Anything goes wrong and you run the gamut between "tough" and "gamy". Done right, and hands down, wild woods fed venison is superior in every regard. My $.02