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    Default 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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    Quote Originally Posted by Black Lechwe View Post
    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.
    The old bulls really smell. It is the same "dusty" taste which make your meat delicious, but all of the meat taste very strongly of that smell. And once the scent of the glands trasfers from the skin to the meat it is inedible for most people.

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    Default 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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    Default 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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    Quote Originally Posted by egenis View Post
    If skinned correctly it's great meat.
    Good for wors, steaks, potjie, roasts everything.

    Shot a nice bull year before and it went down very well! Was some of the nicest game that I've eaten. And it's on my list again for this year.
    Got some waterbok meat and will try different methods (pan fried, braai, potjie) with it.
    Will revert back on the experience.

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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by TorK View Post
    Got some waterbok meat and will try different methods (pan fried, braai, potjie) with it.
    Will revert back on the experience.
    Enjoy! Good meat.

    I shot a zebra this afternoon... now what to do with that meat :rolleyes:

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    Quote Originally Posted by egenis View Post
    Enjoy! Good meat.

    I shot a zebra this afternoon... now what to do with that meat :rolleyes:
    I recall they make very delicious salami with this. But that's a subject for another thread!

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    Quote Originally Posted by egenis View Post
    Enjoy! Good meat.

    I shot a zebra this afternoon... now what to do with that meat :rolleyes:
    Salami. My boss shot one last year - with a little bit of pork, bacon fat and a mix of black pepper and garlic, he got some of the best salami I've ever had from his Zebra.

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    Salami was originally made from horse meat...

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