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kljerabek
Poult
Joined: Mon Feb 14, 2005 6:02 pm Posts: 18 Location: Woodbridge, Virginia
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Ticks in the woods
It seems like I find at least one tick on my body after every spring hunt. I was just wondering if anyone has any tips about how to avoid getting ticks on you while hunting or how to find/remove them once they are on you.
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Wed Apr 26, 2006 11:55 am |
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FlatLand Gobbler
King of Spring
Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 8:46 am Posts: 753 Location: Hampton, VA.
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Wal-Mart has a spray can of stuff that you spray your clothes that keeps insects off of you. It lasts through 5 washings. I use that and I haven't had a tick on me since!
_________________ Ron
"Turkey hunting, when you knock all the feathers off it, is a game of infinite variables, played on a field of unlimited dimension, against an opponent who doesn't know the rules and wouldn't play by them if he did." ...Jim Spencer
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Wed Apr 26, 2006 12:16 pm |
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barry
King of Spring
Joined: Fri Mar 03, 2006 4:44 pm Posts: 2720 Location: Bedford, VA
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ticks in the woods
We use a repellent called Permethrin.
Treat yours clothes with it and it works for up to 2 weeks even if ifyou wash the clothes. DO NOT PUT ON SKIN
We have not found a tick on us in years.
We buy it at our Southern States Co-op, but I'm sure Walmart would have it.
barry
_________________ "Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden
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Wed Apr 26, 2006 12:17 pm |
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iisabigone
Jake
Joined: Sun May 08, 2005 10:53 pm Posts: 26 Location: Martinsville, Virginia
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I guess it is appropriate that this post was posted this morning.
I have been using the permethrin with good luck the last few years to combat the critters.
However, while I was hunting saturday morning I sat on some kind of critter and it bit me. I couldnt tell what it was.
Well anyhows I forgot about it until my wife got a peek of my rear end last night and freaked out. I had a large welt on my left butt check the size of ahhh, ahhh, ahhh, I really dont know because I cant see it.
Anyhows, I was at the doctors office this morning instead of turkey hunting.
Doc said he didnt think it was lymes but he thinks whatever it was got me good and I have a bad staff infection. He prescribed an antibiotic for ten days.
I will be in the woods in the morning before work but I will look where I sit first.
iisabigone
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Wed Apr 26, 2006 12:44 pm |
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HODY
Boss Gobbler
Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 3:08 pm Posts: 1565 Location: Central VA
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I use this too, WalMArt, Dicks they all have it, IT WORKS. just dont put it on your skin.
_________________ "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away."
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Wed Apr 26, 2006 12:58 pm |
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