Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: stevecpa66 on October 30, 2008, 11:13:52 pm
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I'm just getting into traditional archery and making some arrows and I have a question regarding sinew.
I called a guy that processes a lot of deer nearby and he said that he saves sinew for another gentleman, but that he freezes it for him and gets him quite a bit at one time that way by saving it up.
I'm completely new to this so I don't know if the sinew would still be usable if its frozen and it didn't sound like he did a lot of prep to it, so most likely it would still need some scraping to clean off some meat.
Any help would be appreciated.
Steve
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Just thaw it, flesh it and dry it and you will never know it was frozen. Justin
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What Justin said. :)
Pappy
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Steve where ya at? Hope yer not horning in on my sinew because you just described what I do :)
I have a processor save it in about 5 lb lots and freeze it, then I thaw a bag out a time to work on.
Probably takes me 2-3 hours to properly clean 5 lbs, I have a line strung up in the basement and once its scraped I just
hang it up to dry like laundry.
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Thanks guys for the responses. Sounds like its a go then.
Dana, I'm down in Nebraska so probably not going to be cutting into your action. :) In fact, the processor said even though he provides some to another gentleman that he could get me all I would ever need.
Thanks again guys.
Steve
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Get all you can. Sinew is always good to have around for trading. You can get about anything you want with good sinew. ;) Im headed to the butcher this morning to pick up a bunch. ;D