Overnight butts for the hunting club

I have been tasked with pulled pork for the opening of Dove season which is saturday for us. I plan on getting 2 8 or 9lb butts for like 15 to 20 people. Here's the problem but I think I can pull it off.

1. I need to leave my house around 11:30AM Saturday morning to be there in time for the hunt. I'd like to have the butts done right around that time.

2. I plan on 1.5 hours per lb at 250F so about 13 hours. Going to fire the smoker up at 9:30PM Friday night and let it settle in. Put the meat on about 10:30PM and go to bed...hopefully they'll rock on until about 11 or 11:30 saturday morning.

3. I'll wrap in HD foil and put them into a preheated small cooler with towels.

4. We won't eat until 7 or 7:30 Saturday night...i have never held butts this long but a quick search claims it will work fine for 8 hour hold. Some folks report they are still to hot to pull by hand then.

Any advice? Does this plan sound feasible?

CtTradArcher said:

I see in your signature that you have a couple of WSM's. Assuming you're using one of them, is it possible to leave a little earlier and take a WSM with you? Smoke the butts there at a little higher temp so they are done for 6:30 or 7:00.
Your hunting buddies might enjoy witnessing the whole process...

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Yeah it would definitely be nice to do the same day at the hunting camp. The problem is 2 fold. 1. I want to hunt and the hunt will start around the time the butts will be getting done. I don't want to worry about them. 2. Its an hour and a half drive to the hunting camp. I'd have to get up really early to make all this happen. I have smoked butts overnight plenty with the WSM and it works great. The 8 hour hold time is really the only thing i'm concerned with. We have a pizza place 15 minutes away....

I can but i'm figuring 50% yield is 8 lb's of meat. That's 24 people if they all eat a third of a pound....we are doing sandwhiches and sides. I'll get a more solid head count when the weekend gets closer.

Anymore thoughts/suggestions?

Update: fired up the smoker about 9:30 Friday night and put the butts on at 10:45. Went to sleep and the wsm was solid until they came off at 11 Saturday morning. Into a preheated ice chest and to the camp I went. Pulled them at about 7pm Saturday night. They were still plenty warm. Everyone loved it. Dove count was 110 between all the people we had. Great day!