Being a fairly efficient and enthusiastic harvester of whitetail deer I have quite a bit of it in my freezer.  I eat it almost every day, and have a large number of tasty recipies to keep it interesting.  This past year I had quite a number of different types of sausages (polish, bratwurst, spicy, jalapeno) made and am trying to think of a way to safely bring them on my canoe trips this year.

The question I am asking is: Has anyone tried this before?

I'm going to experiment with dehdydrating whole sausages.  My concern is that, especially with bratwurst, they are not pre-cooked.  So I thought I would pre-cook them by baking them, and then dehydrate them in my machine.  I realize that it might take forever and a day, but I'll see how it goes.  The risk, of course, is that I create hard tooth-breaking meat sticks.  But I'll  give it a shot and report back what I learn.

But...as I asked, has anyone tried this before?