I’ve never hunted, but my parents used to be friends with people who did, so we enjoyed the surplus from their freezers and ate lots of venison back when I was in high school.
What I learned: venison can be very delicious, but to get good venison, you have to avoid older animals (which would be trophy bucks - tough and gamy) and animals that died slowly. In short, hunting for a nice rack of antlers is an entirely different thing than hunting for animals that you’ll enjoy eating.
