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What other things do make with a deer
mullet:
--- Quote from: Pappy on January 09, 2013, 11:10:07 am ---I use the tallow to grease my broad heads,metal of course and also add it sometimes to my pitch glue,the stuff will keep forever if you keep it in a cool fairly dry place. I thought about trying to render some of it down and see how it turned out. I feel sure it wouldn't be good to cook with but had lot of other uses,I seen Gary use it to seal a bow.Anyone tried rendering any ? :)
Pappy
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mark, I have. I have a small block in my fridge I used for waterproofing.
iowabow:
--- Quote from: mullet on January 12, 2013, 08:15:09 pm ---
--- Quote from: Pappy on January 09, 2013, 11:10:07 am ---I use the tallow to grease my broad heads,metal of course and also add it sometimes to my pitch glue,the stuff will keep forever if you keep it in a cool fairly dry place. I thought about trying to render some of it down and see how it turned out. I feel sure it wouldn't be good to cook with but had lot of other uses,I seen Gary use it to seal a bow.Anyone tried rendering any ? :)
Pappy
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mark, I have. I have a small block in my fridge I used for waterproofing.
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Hey Mullet what items do you water proof?
JEB:
We just rendered 3 one (1#) coffee cans of tallow. We use it when we heat self bow limbs to straighten the limbs out. We apply the tallow as we heat them limb.
AND I have made guitar picks out of the shoulder plate. Neighbor girl came over one day and asked me to make a pair of guitar pics for her as she was making guitar pic ear rings and selling them for a fund raiser so I made her a bunch of them. I made a few more and gave them to a guy and his wife to play the guitar with. He said they worked but were just a little stiff.
Used to tie flies and used deer hair for the muddler minnow fly.
stickbender:
Deer hair would not make a good stuffing, as it is hollow, and brittle. It does make good lures, like flies, Muddler as said, smaller floating flies, indicators for sinking flies, and popping bugs for bass, and hair frogs.
Wayne
n8tr boy:
a friendof mine used deer bone to laminate a homemade long bone rizer handle. I have some leg bones here and may try that when get around to making my long bow this winter. too many other projects on the go right now that need priority.
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