New world record

[Reeves]

http://www.boone-crockett.org/news/featured_story.asp?area=news&ID=36

UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM ! Elk ! Best meat on the planet !

[Vrex]

Amen brother, I have a 150 pounds of prime steaks in my freezer.  It don't get any better.

Mike

[cv]

 

what a strange rack on the new world record ..

Yes, it's very good meat ... elk heart is really good too.

[slider]

Deer heart is also good..

[cv]

Deer heart is also good..

Yes it is, I like the taste of elk more then deer.

Last week I was looking for the largest elk in terms of weight, 1,100 to 1,200 lbs was the norm. does this sound about right ?

[NH/Pete]

I'd wait for a bigger one and let this one grow a little. 

[gboston1970]

how should deer or elk heart be cooked? I've hunted for years and never tried it.

[slider]

I split the Deer heart open and clean it out and cut in small long pieces , roll in seasoned flour and fry until done. Kinda like you would prepare french fries.

[cv]

I've had heart as mentioned by slider, also cooked on an open fire in a iron skillet with butter and cooked just using a stick,like a shish kabob. Deer heart is good too..

[mobe_45]

how should deer or elk heart be cooked? I've hunted for years and never tried it.

My favorite way is to trim off all the fat, cut out the valves, then cut it in strips.
Bread it with a seasoned flour, (seasoned salt, garlic powder, pepper, onion powder, mrs.dash seasoning, cayenne powder and flour)
fry in butter til medium rare (or whatever doneness you like).
I usually eat the whole thing by myself for a meal.

The other way I like it is baked like a beef heart.
Start by removing the fat and valves. The best way to get the valves is to make a long slit into the chambers.
Then season with rosemary, sage, seasoned salt, pepper inside and out. (if you got your deer in the west omit the sage- It's already in the meat)
roll it back shut and bake covered with a small bit of water in the pan about 30- 40 minutes or til it reaches about 140 degrees for medium, 155 for well done.
I'm from Iowa so I add the sage.
Any beef heart recipe works for the deer heart.

[slider]

I about deer heart like I am chitling I only eat it fried...

[CharlieHorse]

I bet that elk was taken from behind a fence and probably shouldn't go in the record books alongside "wild" fairly taken game?


 

[Reeves]

I bet that elk was taken from behind a fence and probably shouldn't go in the record books alongside "wild" fairly taken game?


 

I didn't read it that way ? Did you read all of it ?
Of course, I don't know how you Yankees do things down there !

 

[CharlieHorse]

 

Actually, I read it the other day and don't remember the details, I was just baiting my own trap for "wild" game.

 

Oh.....everything is done fair and square down here, on the up and up. At least that's how I operate.   

[wildergamebirds]

  What the heck, I like old liver.

  The one thing that makes it sound legitimate is the public land statement.  I suppose a guy could raise a few hundred, then take one of the dozen or so trophies out to a patch of BLM land, and chain it to a tree at night.  If it was killed on private land, the Ranch, and guides would have to get credit in the article.

  The Wildlife "experts" in most states claim more trophy Whitetails die of old age, than are killed by hunters.  If that's true in the over populated midwest states, it has to be doubly so in the West.  I have seen at least three Elk in Colorado that had racks that rivaled the left side of that beast in general size.  They get that way by being taught by their mothers to stay deep in timber, or high on open tundra.  And maybe by getting shot at a couple of times by City hunters.  If some guy stumbles over a hill, with the wind just right, and the Elk has a nose full of you know what, they both make the papers.