Home Forums Birds & Dogs Shotguns Black lights and my Ithaca M37s: what is this witchcraft?

So I have one of those blacklight flashlights on my desk. The kind CSI people use to look for old blood, and other OCD people take with them on trips to make sure there is no j izz on their hotel sheets. So I just shined it on some guns I have out. What the ever loving hell?

Here's my two Upper Sandusky made Ithaca Model 37s.





In normal light, the stocks are gorgeous. You can't see anything on them that would make parts of them fluoresce like this. It doesn't wipe off. It doesn't follow the grain of the wood. It's either in the stain or the satin finish. I'm not worried about it. I suspect the marks are like finger prints, unique to my guns. It was just weird.

I shined it on my Marlin Model 60 SS. The whole stock lights up.


I shined it on my new Browning BPS Field 20 gauge. I haven't given it a good cleaning yet and it came coated in sticky cosmoline like stuff. I wiped most of that off, but the nooks and cannies it still shows up.



Anyway, it was weird. No problems. Just surprising.

Hopefully not semen.

LOL. I hope not.

that is crazy
If it is semem, looks like someone had a good time
Guess that is what they mean by gun porn

I like my Ithacas, but not that much.

It is wierd. In normal light there is absolutely nothing noticable that might make it fluoresce like that. The finish is perfectly smooth. There's nothing in the wood grain that that's consistent with those patches. All I can figure is that there must be minute variations in the thickness of the finish. It seems to be the finish that's reflecting.

Aparrently someone keeps 37's in their spank bank.............

Interesting.

I've been known to love my 37s.

I sent the pics to Ithaca. Told them my email was in NO WAY a complaint but wondered if they knew what it was.

I still suspect its the finish that is relfecting and that the bright spots are where the finish is a bit thicker than than the rest. Or if could be spunk. Who relly knows.

I do think the black light flashlight is a cool tool. But never, ever, ever take it into a hotel room. Even if it looks clean with the lights on, it will look like it was used for some weird german porn movie with a black light.

lol

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