Friend of mine, he died quite while back. He was an older fella. I used to go to his house and help him process.
We would grind and mix and make sausage and stuff.
His smoker was homemade. It was a small shack the size of an outhouse with one door and a tin roof. Couple feet away he had small cast iron wood burning stove. The flew was piped directly into the outhouse at the lowest point it could reach from the height of stove. He had vents he could turn at the top of house to control smoke. He had removable expanded metal shelves and hooks to hang sausage from top.
He made the best sausage and on shelves did hams, chicken , jerky, Tasso, anything really...
Had the best deer jerky I ever had in my life
Did you get his recipes?