I usually use Rhodes Bros in Kerville to process my deer and they make an awesome dried sausage. This year I used someone else and while they make a fine smoked sausage, they don't offer a dried version. I've got about 100lbs of smoked sasausge and really want some dried. Has anyone ever put smoked sausage in a dehydrator to make dried smoked sausage? Would there be any concerns doing this?

Preservatives or not - as long as the meat was properly handled and kept cold, drying on a dehydrator will work fine. Our family has made our own dried sausage for generations and the recipe has no preservatives other than salt/smoke. However, the ratio of fat to lean meat will be more of a determining factor in your final product. Too much fat and your dried will not firm up like you may expect and it will be greasy. I use a ratio of 60% deer to 40% pork butt for the dried sausage - flip that to 40% deer to 60% pork butt for cooking sausage.