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Removing blood stains from stock.

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dhermano1002	Removing blood stains from stock.	Lead	[-]
Posts: 1 (02/08/09 09:35 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tags : None I inherited a battlefield relic that has blood stains on the stock. Is there any way of removing the stains?
MasterChief		#1	[-]
Posts: 994 (02/08/09 11:12 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Yes. But this would constitute desecration unless the blood was from a Coors twist-top incident. If you decide to keep the stock as-is, do not spill a solution of oxalic acid on the bare wood because that will destroy the blood stain and any other historical context. Besides, you would have to re-color/re-oil finish the stock afterward. The real question is how to preserve the blood staining. Best wishes. Dave
Chief Oshkosh	Blood stains, again	#2	[-]
Posts: 1058 (04/07/09 05:14 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	How do you know they are bloodstains? 'Blood stains' have been claimed before but there are a host of agents that could stain a stock. No way of knowing after all this time. Have to test for proteins, hemoglobin which contains iron.
glock357x2		#3	[-]
Posts: 27 (04/09/09 12:08 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I have agreed with Chief Oshkosh for decades; unless YOU actually saw the blood spilled on the weapon or ran it thru the list of tests to verify that the stain IS/WAS human blood, how could you know that it is/was blood and not some other liquid such as motor oil, cooking oil, dark beer or whatever? If not, then I have an old M1 Garand stock that is soaked in Nazi blood after some GI expended all his ammo killing Nazis and then used the bayonet to finish off the remainder of Hitler's army, leaving the GI, all his equipment and rifle soaked in blood. The GI was then able to get his M1 home where it hang over his fireplace for decades until his death whereas his widow wanted to get rid of it by selling all his war trophies at a garage sale. I have about the same opinion for 'Battle Damaged Rifles'...
lwdavis		#4	[-]
Posts: 582 (04/09/09 12:06 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Rust stains are the most commen stains found on stocks. They will be black and imposible to remove, as far as I know!
Chief Oshkosh		#5	[-]
Posts: 1063 (06/27/09 12:05 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	There was a twisted C&R dealer (still around) whose selling point for some rifle was that it had 'blood stains' on it. What are you to think of someone like that?

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