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stevecpa66:
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

Justin Snyder:
Just thaw it, flesh it and dry it and you will never know it was frozen.  Justin

Pappy:
What Justin said. :)
   Pappy

DanaM:
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.

stevecpa66:
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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