Axis deer meat is uniquely clean and healthy with a low gamey taste due to approximately 0.4% intramuscular fat.

“there's something that's very different about access deer um in some ways it sort of spoils you with respect to other types of meat um it seems infinitely cleaner healthier the animal itself seems to be you know very clean there seems to be something about its meat that's unique now as i've gotten to learn over time a big part of that has to do with the intramuscular fat content um you know most people who have tried venison say oh you know it's okay but it's a little bit gamey you know certainly black tail more than white tail and you know probably um but but but access deer sort of exists in its own camp which is not particularly gamey at all um and i suspect this you know it's basically 0.4 intramuscular fat i mean it's a very unique animal in that regard”

“you know one of the reasons i like axis deer so much not only is it you know just from an environmental standpoint it's you know you're doing something very positive for the environment um the meat itself is incredibly healthy tastes great but the challenge of hunting that animal is so high right it's just you know if you can shoot an access deer with a bow you have earned that animal um and the reason for that is they have really good senses like their sense of hearing their sense of smell it's insane”