Blood stained upland vest

[CA_pheasant]

My favorite upland vest is a Boyt, strap vest, heavy canvas, probably 10 yrs old. Last year I carried a couple of hard hit geese and the vest got blood stained. I've washed it a couple of times and scrubbed with a brush and laundry detergent. Much of the blood stains lightened up but it's still pretty bad.

The vest is otherwise indestructible and I really like it (real leather straps, brass snaps, heavy canvas, and lot's of memories).

Anyone have a treatment to remove heavy blood stains without damaging this vest?

Only problem with this vest over the 10 years is that it's somehow gotten a bit smaller each season :-)

Thanks

[CA_pheasant]

You might ask "Why are you wearing an upland vest when goose hunting?". Well, we were hunting pheasant and a couple of stupid geese, including a nice honker, decided to fly too close (shot with #4 Hevi-Shot at probably 20 yards up).

So I need to get goose blood stains out of my pheasant/upland vest.

Thanks

[AnewBigDaddyB]

have you tried any of the commercial stain removers? How about alcohol? Simple Green?
If you've washed it a few times already, sounds like you may be needing to just grin and bare it?
Afterall, its a HUNTING VEST! it's supposed to get grodie!

[Arrowslinger]

It's a hunting vest, isn't it supposed to be bloody? That shows you use it & you've been successful, i'd leave it the way it is & smile as other look and wonder.

[dhall61]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Arrowslinger @ Oct 9 2006, 08:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

It&#39;s a hunting vest, isn&#39;t it supposed to be bloody? That shows you use it & you&#39;ve been successful, i&#39;d leave it the way it is & smile as other look and wonder.[/b]

Agreed.

Sounds like a good time for a Milwaukee light beer commercial.

Your a man, act like one. Milwaukee Light

[vrstull]

Mom put up with hunters and the messes they made from the time she was a child watching her father shoot cottontails on the farm in OK. right through Dad and I bringing quail home. She always said forget about gettng blood stains out once dried. If we complained about blood stains she said, "Should have washed it out with cold water before it dried. Any idiot knows that." Or words pretty close to those.
Concur with Arrowslinger&#39;s observation myself.
Vic
Redlands, CA.

[tdbob]

Soak blood (even if dried) in cold water and then apply hydrogen peroxide, this will remove most if not all the blood. This works only if the blood hasn&#39;t been set in by previous washings. YMMV

[camo snob]

A good way to cover the blood stains is camo paint. If not I&#39;d use some grease lightin.