sinew care after harvest

[Slaughter]

Hello all,

I hope everyone had a great Yule/Christmas.
I haven't been around much lately so I'm catching up on my reading today, but I have a question.
I'm not sure which section to post it in so I'm going to post it here as it relates to the first bow I'm planning.I harvested a good bit of back and leg sinew from a nice young spike buck I took yesterday. I'm not sure how to store it or care for it until I'm ready to put it to use.It will eventually be a part of my first red oak board bow,either some wraps or as part of the backing.
Any help or comments are appreciated.

Thank you all in advance,  Tony

[DanaM]

If its freshed and hasn't been scraped and dried just freeze it.
If you have scraped it clean and dried just put it  somewhere dry and where the dogs can't
get to it. You can pound and seperate it and store it zip lock baggies also.

[Slaughter]

Thank you Dana,
It is fresh and I scraped it fairly well when I took it. freezing would probably be best since it isnt dry yet.

[DanaM]

I would dry it and pound and separate it much easier to store.
Also less chance that the wife will find it in her freezer and toss it out

[Slaughter]

Ok I,ll do that then.
My wife is more likely to steal it for her own use than throw it out......I'll have to hide it no matter what

[PepeLep]

You can pound and seperate it and store it zip lock baggies also.

I dry it on my windowsill and keep it in a ziplock baggie on top of the fridge.

My wife can't reach it up there.


I take sinew off roadkills whenever I pass them on the way to work. I've collected twenty or thirty pieces of leg sinew this year.

[Slaughter]

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I dry it on my windowsill and keep it in a ziplock baggie on top of the fridge.

My wife can't reach it up there.


[/quote]LOL my wife would get out the ladder if she couldn't reach it.I had a couple of nice pieces of leg bone worked into handle blanks for a knife.came home one day and she had swiped them to use as deco on a possibles pouch she made for a friend of ours

[Glenn R.]

PepeLep, thats a great idea---I pass hundreds of road kills a year and never thought of that

[duffontap]

I don't think that would be legal in Oregon.  I think roadkills are considered sacred here. 

I put my sinew in my drying box at about 90 degrees to get them dried out before they start to smell. 

        J. D.

[wvfknapper]

Tony

I cut out over 500 deer leg sinew this fall,, I cut mine out of the leg,, put them in a bucket of water that has about 1/3 cup bleach (to kill any bacteria) then after I got the bucket half full , I take the sinew out and pull them through a rag or hand towel to remove the slime and lay them on a window screen frame to dry,, they dry in a few days and then you can just put them in a box and set on a shelf until needed.....Be careful, dogs love them..............The back sinew I just scrape off all the meat, wash good then use a cloth's pin and hang them to dry, don't take long either.

wvflintknapper

[venisonburger]

I dry mine in my american harvest food dehydrator, no special treatment, dry it, pound it, seperate when needed.
VB

[Justin Snyder]

JD, if you only take the leg sinew nobody complains. I would really like the backstrap also but if I cut in that far they think you are getting something usefull and they don't like it.  Justin