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Removing Salt from a Snake Skin

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Eric Krewson:
I just unthawed a timber rattler that had been frozen in water for 5 or 6 years, it was I pristine shape. Perhaps a thin skin like a copperhead wouldn't fare so well.

Here is the timber in place, Donnie's first selfbow, hickory, 50#@28", he finished 8th with it at Twin Oaks, quite a feat for a newbie selfbow shooter.

 

DesertDisciple:
Eric, is that one skin backing that bow or two? I'd hate to have been the one to face off with it if it were that big!

Eric Krewson:
That was a snake in the 50" range. The beauty of timber rattlers is they have three side by side patterns on the skin, one down the middle and two off to the sides. If you split a timber skin down the middle you have a matching set of skins for each limb. The bow in the picture has one skin split down the middle on it.

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