Any jerky i've had has been pretty dry. Do you have your own food dehydrator? Maybe experiment with the meat on different level trays and for different drying times.

what if you were to open up the dehydrator and put some sort of wet seasoning mixture on every hour or so? Do you think that would hinder the process too much? Or could it possibly help make it be a little less dry??

And I agree with the different meats on diff levels & times....

Have you tried deer meat for this? We have a friend in Arizona that sends us jerky once a year and he uses deer. While I never thought I'd EAT deer.... It's pretty dang good. Maybe I'll have to get ahold of him and see how he does it. But I'm thinking it involves stuff only a "mountain man" has access to.

Thanks for the tip I can't wait to try this.

I haven't made anything in my dehydrator for a couple of months, but I am definitely going to try out these suggestions and see what happens!

rt49andellis: We actually do use deer for jerky...we have for years and love it that way (incredibly dry or not, haha)! Actually, that is about the only way I will eat deer meat.

I'm going to be giving some of these a try too! Man, I do love some good deer jerkey.