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Title: Anyone ever use coyote sinew?
Post by: kid bow on April 03, 2016, 07:34:57 pm

So has anyone used the sinew from a coyote at all? A few friends are going to help a local farmer kill some so they leave his chickens and cattle alone. He offered to bring me the sinew.

Title: Re: Anyone ever use coyote sinew?
Post by: Pat B on April 03, 2016, 07:56:56 pm

Sinew is sinew. If there is enough of it and it's long enough it should work like any other sinew. Cook the hide down and make coyote hide glue.

Title: Re: Anyone ever use coyote sinew?
Post by: bjrogg on April 03, 2016, 09:00:40 pm

I thought I'd try to harvest some sinew from my red foxes but it was shorter and thinner then I thought it would be. Coyote might be longer would have tried but didn't get any this year.

Title: Re: Anyone ever use coyote sinew?
Post by: lebhuntfish on April 04, 2016, 03:56:03 am

If you're going to the trouble of collecting coyote sinew then you might as well tan the hides!  :laugh:
That's one sinew I wouldn't chew to soften...

Patrick

Title: Re: Anyone ever use coyote sinew?
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on April 04, 2016, 07:45:29 am

Id bet its quite elastic stuff, probably pretty good. It will take quite a few dogs to back a bow.

Title: Re: Anyone ever use coyote sinew?
Post by: osage outlaw on April 04, 2016, 12:10:02 pm

Have them save the skulls also.  They are easy to clean and whiten.  They look really cool when they are done right.


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Title: Re: Anyone ever use coyote sinew?
Post by: joachimM on April 04, 2016, 03:30:05 pm

And I bet the canines give you pretty cool tip overlays too!

Title: Re: Anyone ever use coyote sinew?
Post by: Dakota Kid on April 04, 2016, 10:23:53 pm

Teeth (elk especially) are about the closest thing to ivory still available without ripping from old piano keys.

Title: Re: Anyone ever use coyote sinew?
Post by: phyankord on April 05, 2016, 12:02:48 am

ive actually heard elephants are starting to be born at a higher % that DONT have tusks, apparently an evolutionary advantage against poachers in search of ivory .

Title: Re: Anyone ever use coyote sinew?
Post by: osage outlaw on April 05, 2016, 12:31:16 am

I would not use teeth as overlays.  They seem to dry out and crack easily. 

Title: Re: Anyone ever use coyote sinew?
Post by: loon on April 05, 2016, 02:13:46 am

PVC?  :P
Or just antler, maybe even bone.

Title: Re: Anyone ever use coyote sinew?
Post by: DuBois on April 06, 2016, 12:18:53 am

Hey Clint, you ever do a bison skull?
I have a couple but they sure don't look clean like that. Is there a tutorial on how to do it somewhere?

Title: Re: Anyone ever use coyote sinew?
Post by: osage outlaw on April 06, 2016, 12:21:21 am

I did a how to a while back on deer skulls.  It will work the same for bison.  Keep the horns out of the peroxide.

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,22130.0.html