BBQ Smoked Pheasant

Ingredients:
Several Whole Birds
Liquid Smoke
Soy Sauce
Garlic Salt
Bacon
Wood Chips and Coals
BBQ sauce
Salt
Pepper
Seasonings

Directions:
Soak birds for 24 hours in a brine of water, soy sauce, liquid smoke, and garlic salt
Remove birds and truss with bamboo skewer
Make slice along breast bone and insert 1/2 piece of bacon along each side
Wrap birds with bacon
Smoke birds over a charcoal smoker for 4 hours at approx 200 degrees or so
Remove birds and completely debone - go ahead and scrape all the meat off
Try not to eat all the breast meat (it will taste good, though) and save some fo remainder of recipe
Place meat in large crockpot with BBQ sauce and your choice of additional seasonings
If you like yours spicy, then throw in some hot sauce
Heat on high until hot, and then turn to low for 4 hours
Stir every 45 minutes or so to break up meat
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