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Post by jimstc on May 21, 2015 18:00:38 GMT -5
Got my rookie season done. Skunked, but the ticks and mosquitoes loved me. Black snake too. Paid attention and got a Therma Cell for the skeetters but probably picked off 20 ticks over 10 days of hunting. One was on me after three days of showers. I hate em! What do you guys and gals use to keep those ticks off of you? Never had to think about them since I am a fall/winter deer hunter until this year. I didn't know ticks could be so small. I itched for two weeks. I'd say that was mind over body. Every itch was a tick, I thought. LOL Thanks for your knowledge and advice
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on May 21, 2015 20:35:35 GMT -5
Ticks can be nasty. I got one two years ago that was latched on for 9 days before my wife saw it. She thought is was a new mole until she put on her glasses and saw the mole had legs.
It took a long time for the big bump to go away.
I think most guys just the Therma Cell. I use a Tahoe.
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Post by swetz on May 21, 2015 22:03:17 GMT -5
I treat my clothes in permethrin. It actually kills ticks too.
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Post by jimstc on May 22, 2015 6:41:20 GMT -5
Thanks swetz. I'll research that. Jon, my Therma Cell only repelled skeetters. Had my Cell going the day I got the most ticks. Although, I was on the ground in real heavy woods. May have repelled thousands and only the toughest got through? Still want another line of defense. Sounds like swetz has the answer. Thanks guys
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Post by Woody Williams on May 22, 2015 7:08:07 GMT -5
You can buy the Permethrin concentrate (10% I believe) at Tractor Supply and mix up your own to the half % that most sprays are at. It is MUCH cheaper!
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Post by jimstc on May 22, 2015 7:42:26 GMT -5
Thanks Woody. Just found some on Amazon. $15 for 24 ounces. I'll check TSC. I am in there every week. In fact my horses are expecting me to go there today as the feed can is about empty. Guess its time. Thanks again to swetz too. Problem solved. My son in law will be appreciative too. This forum is a great place to learn!!
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Post by swetz on May 22, 2015 11:40:35 GMT -5
Glad I could help.
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Post by jimstc on May 22, 2015 13:08:54 GMT -5
Bought 32 oz at TSC. 10%. $20. Ticks will now fear me!
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Post by ridgerunner on May 22, 2015 13:35:33 GMT -5
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on May 22, 2015 13:38:01 GMT -5
I haven't found a single tick in my Tahoe yet, but I haven't found a turkey in it either. I may have to get some spray next year.
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Post by Woody Williams on May 22, 2015 13:43:21 GMT -5
Bought 32 oz at TSC. 10%. $20. Ticks will now fear me! You should dilute that to .5 percent. Same as the spray can.
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Post by jimstc on May 22, 2015 14:53:27 GMT -5
Yep found them on my Google search. Not a bad price and already mixed. I am frugal, err, cheap, and followed Woody's advice
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Post by jimstc on May 22, 2015 14:54:50 GMT -5
Bought 32 oz at TSC. 10%. $20. Ticks will now fear me! You should dilute that to .5 percent. Same as the spray can. Thanks again Woody. I was going to research the dilution rate. You saved me the work.
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Post by jimstc on May 22, 2015 14:55:50 GMT -5
I haven't found a single tick in my Tahoe yet, but I haven't found a turkey in it either. I may have to get some spray next year. If you need the spray, I must need a Tahoe.......
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Post by swetz on Jun 22, 2015 22:43:58 GMT -5
For you guys that mix your own from concentrate, do you soak or spray your clothes with it? I've typically used the Sawyers spray, but it gets expensive pretty fast.
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Post by Woody Williams on Jun 23, 2015 8:18:04 GMT -5
I just mist mine but it seems to soak through any way. I do it a few days before I use them and let them dry. Supposed to last a couple weeks and a couple washing a.
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Post by swetz on Jun 23, 2015 14:56:57 GMT -5
I just mist mine but it seems to soak through any way. I do it a few days before I use them and let them dry. Supposed to last a couple weeks and a couple washing a. Thanks.
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Post by moose1am on Jun 23, 2015 21:45:27 GMT -5
Remember that the smaller deer ticks are the ones that carry Lyme's Disease. If you have any swelling and redness around the tick bite area you might want to talk to your doctor about getting antibiotic treatments. They say it's easier to kill the bacteria before they spread and multiply inside your body using antibiotics. If you did get the bacteria inside you from the tick bite and they grow and multiply before you get treatment you could have long term effects from that tick bite.
I fear ticks more than I fear anything other than the mosquitoes. We have so many new diseases being brought into the USA from foreign lands these days. Most of these are mosquito born type diseases.
I've got some tick spray but have not sprayed it on my cloths yet. I'm not sure which clothing I'm going to wear when out in the field right now. I try to stay out of the woods and fields when it's warm outside and ticks are most active. I'll wait until after the first few frosts before I go afield. And I have two of the Thermocells that clip onto my belt or other hunting gear. and I have one more that sits on a table and or the floor and it's shaped like a small lantern. I hate being bitten by mosquitoes as I never know which one of them buggers is carrying some type of new tropical virus inside them. So I try to not get out after dark unless I'm packing my Thermocells or have bug spray on me. And I hate the bug spray about as much as the biting insects. I was not like this until after I studied bacteriology in college. After looking at all those tiny bugs under the microscope it puts a new world of microscopic bugs in my mind's eye.
Plus I have three friends that have contracted long term illness of Lyme's Disease and it's very hard to cure this disease unless you catch it right at the very beginning.
My Wife, A Nurse, too her daughter to the doctor the very next day after finding a deer tick on her daughter. She received some antibiotics right away. The girl grew up and now has three kids of her own and is a pharmacist now. It's pays to have medical knowledge I guess.
Now, not all ticks carry the Lyme's Disease bacteria and you may not have gotten bit by a tick carrying the bacteria that causes Lyme's Disease. But why take a chance? If you pick off ten or more ticks from your body then you have a lot higher probability of getting Lyme's Disease. So why take a chance?
I had two treatments of antibiotics that cured my long term arthritis that I had developed in my fingers. Each treatment lasted for ten days and I was given the antibiotics though a central line in my chest that feed the antibiotic directly into a vein that went directly into my heart. I had an infection and a high white blood cell count after having open heart surgery. But the side effect of getting the antibiotics is that he also cured my arthritis in my fingers. I have no pain in my fingers anymore and had to take pain medicine for my arthtitis before the open heart surgery. I spent a lot of time in the woods and fields when I was younger and didn't know about microbiology. Now I am more knowledgeable. Sometimes ignorance is bliss, but I think in the case of Lyme's Disease it's better to have some knowledge and take precautions before it's too late.
There is a lot more research going on about the connection between Fibromyalgia and Lyme's Disease these day.
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Post by trophyparadise on Jun 24, 2015 10:58:34 GMT -5
I use a spray called durnanon. You spray your clothes, not your body and it lasts for weeks. Doesn't have a bug spray scent either Trophy Paradise Habitat Consulting "Trophies are built from the ground up" m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=852914431431752
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Post by Woody Williams on Jun 24, 2015 15:14:57 GMT -5
I use a spray called durnanon. You spray your clothes, not your body and it lasts for weeks. Doesn't have a bug spray scent either Trophy Paradise Habitat Consulting "Trophies are built from the ground up" m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=852914431431752Same stuff as permathrin..
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