Has anyone smoked an entire hind quarter

[Bigdawg90]

Quartered a deer, and I’m sitting here looking at the hind quarter and thinking about smoking the entire thing. It doesn’t have a ton of fat.

Has anyone done this? Would I smoke it like brisket or do it like a pork butt?

 

[Okie4570]

I've had this article saved for years, I still haven't tried it though.

Smoked Bone-In Whitetail Hindquarter — Transient Outdoorsman

A buddy of mine was fortunate enough to harvest a whitetail doe in a game damage hunt in Montana this year. When we were butchering her, we had two other deer we were doing at the same time. Call it laziness or call it a bold attempt at something new; but, we decided to leave one

www.transientoutdoorsman.com

 

[TedKennedy]

Quartered a deer, and I’m sitting here looking at the hind quarter and thinking about smoking the entire thing. It doesn’t have a ton of fat.

Has anyone done this? Would I smoke it like brisket or do it like a pork butt?

I've smoked a few. Always a bit on the dry side. The article below sounds interesting, but without the marbled fat like a domestic pig or beef, I believe it'll always be a little dry.

One thing that is good is after the smoke, remove the bones, chop rough, add some Head Country and slow roast/steam it in the oven. Makes some great BBQ sandwiches.

 

[2busy]

You could brine it to keep it from being too dry.

 

[AER244]

I haven’t smoked one, but I’ve rotisserie/spit roasted a couple of fawn hindquarters on a Weber kettle and that was very very good.