peroxide for blood trails
 

I heard about using peroxide in a spray bottle for blood trails but do you mix anything with it or just use peroxide?

RE: peroxide for blood trails
 

the way I understood it is you use it straight out of the bottle. It is suppose to make the blood foam up.

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RE: peroxide for blood trails
 

I just use straight hydrogen peroxide in a spray bottle. It' s really helpful in separating dried blood drops from color spots on fallen leaves. Not only that, it foams up on little smudges of blood on the side of grass and things from where a deer brushed against it.

No, I don' t always use it. But on a tough blood trail it can make a world of difference.

RE: peroxide for blood trails
 

If you have ever put peroxide on a wound you notice how it foams up white?
Thats what it does when it contacts blood. I use it as a last resort on skimpy blood trails. It works good to find single drops of blood especially in the red/brown leaves and also in pine needles. You know how sometimes when you are trailing a wounded deer you pick up every leaf that has red spot on it just to realize its not blood? With the peroxide you just bend a bit and spray and move on. I used it to find one doe last year. Mix in some food coloring and it will foam up that color. REd and green will foam up a bright orange.
A good way to see the effect of this is to collect the bloody drippings from a pack of chicken or beef and make a blood trail in your yard.

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thanks for the help. i appreciate it a lot!

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The only time that I really found the peroxide to really come in handy is identifying blood from other substances such as berry juice etc. There are an aweful lot of times around here anyway when you have to make a judgement if what you have is blood (or often a clot), or a berry that has started to rot. Same color and consistancy as blood. But when you hit it with peroxide, the blood or clot will bubble.

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never even heard of this. Sounds like great idea....Will use it in a week:D

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It will also come in handy if the blood is drying up before you get to it . The peroxide will foam up dried blood from days ago.
I keep a squirt bottle of it in my atv box. Watch out though, for some reason the spray mechanisms on the squirt bottles don' t seam to want to last long when using it with peroxide. I found an empty febreeze bottle works best.

If your afraid of " washing" away the blood trail, just mark each confirmed shot with a small peice of white toilet paper.

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Could also be used on yourself in case you get cut field dressing the deer.