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Thread: Waterbuck Meat - How is it
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17-05-2015, 19:27 #11
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Re: Waterbuck Meat - How is it
Hi there,
I've just hunted a Defassa Waterbuck- different species, but it was a young bull and it really doesn't smell that bad. We skinned it from top to bottom, hanging up. So the hair never really touched the meat, and the inevitable few hairs that get onto the meat don't seem to make a difference. I had left the hind shins unskinned on the carcass in the cold room, also no problem.
The meat is great, not gamey at all, very nice texture for biltong too. I shot a young bull about 2 years old, so can't really say if it is worse in older bulls. My tracker said it's the same between the sexes and ages.
I think a lot of this 'you can't eat waterbuck' is thanks to Robert Ruark's popular book of hunting stories (Use Enough Gun) and has since worked its way into legend. Probably stems from the old safari days when you had the option of blasting away at different species of game all day and only eating the best (like rhino tongue, lion steaks, eland as a staple food!).
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17-05-2015, 21:25 #12
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17-05-2015, 21:34 #13
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Re: Waterbuck Meat - How is it
It's all in the skinning of the animal.
2 skinners, one cutting the skin and the other pulling the skin away as the other person cuts.
The person doing the cutting must not touch the skin and the other must not touch the meat.
Once you have the skin off their is no more smell and waterbuck meat makes for some of the tastiest biltong and dry wors I have ever eaten.
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18-05-2015, 07:43 #14
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Re: Waterbuck Meat - How is it
The best sosaties I ever tasted was Waterbok. So the meat IMHO is very good.
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11-06-2015, 19:51 #15
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11-06-2015, 19:59 #16
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Re: Waterbuck Meat - How is it
My last batch is in the biltong maker . I'm not shooting another this year, will have to make do with a gemsbok. But that only happens in a month's time. Which is good as I need a bit of range time with something other than a pistol.
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11-06-2015, 20:03 #17
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11-06-2015, 21:27 #18
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12-06-2015, 00:27 #20
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Re: Waterbuck Meat - How is it
Salami was originally made from horse meat...
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