TICKS

[selfbowyer]

With turkey season just around the corner, how to you guys protect yourself from ticks? I only use a blind when I take my dad out and they aren't to bad in the blind but otherwise I'm running and gunning. Sitting and calling in some of the thickest cover around. Depending on what part of the state I'm hunting in, a morning of hunting could mean 15 to 20 ticks. Has anyone tried those bug suits that fit real tight to the skin?  Glenn

[MJB]

One word  Permanone  

[OconeeDan]

MJB is right, permanone.

[macbow]

I have never had a tick bite while wearing clothes treated with permanone.
Ron

[woodchucker]

For deer hunting in the fall,I spray all of my hunting clothes with permanone or permetherin. I usualy use the same clothes in the spring for turkey hunting,plus I spray myself down with Deep Woods Off.

[Chisler]

Doing a self "tick check", with eyes and hands, is always a good idea, even if you are using a repellant.  My hair is short so they've never been a problem on my head, but I always feel 'em crawling on my neck before they get to my head.
   One more thing, ticks DO NOT burrow or tunnel under the skin. A lot of people think they go under the skin.  If a tick is biting/feeding on you, you can see it or feel it on your back.

[Labs4me]

SUCK!

Get it? I crack myself up!        

[Labs4me]

Quick story.

About six years ago I ran one of my Labs, Dakota in a Retriever Hunt Test down in Coshocton, Ohio. At that time, ticks were very few and far between where I live in Michigan so at that time, I hadn't learned to take precautions in tick country.

Anyway, I was leaning against this incredibly comfortable bush just watching the other Labs compete. All the while, I was feeling these "bugs" fall from the branches of the bush. So without looking at them, I just sort of brushed them off me and continued to watch the other dogs run.

Long story short. This took place during early May when the ticks were HATCHING and the bugs that were crawling all over me, weren't just "bugs", but rather, ravenously blood thirty ticks.

Here's the punch line. After learning that I was infested with ticks, I drove about 90 mph to the nearest small town. Noticing a McDonalds, I threw the truck into park, ran into the bathroom and stripped down to NOTHING to examine my "nether region" for ticks. Just as I was bent over and contorted in a position that no man should ever put himself in, A father walked into the bathroom with his little boy.

For this reason, to this day, I still drive around the State of Ohio when I visit Kentucky.

[Kip]

I am a tick magnet.Kip

[daniel reynolds]

Be sure to check you're belly button. I had one in there for 2 or 3 days a couple of years ago that was carrying lyme disease . I did'nt notice it until I got out of the shower one night and it popped and blood went everywhere the sickness was horrible! I spray everytime now.

[John3]

For April turkey season I spray from my knees to my boots (completely cover). I don't usually worry too much about mature(big) ticks... It is the seed ticks that are the nightmare. Anyone who has had them explode onto you will never forget it. I was scouting last spring in shorts of course when I felt them hit my legs... Nasty almost microscopic bast***ds.... Deet works every time.

John III

[Toxophilite]

Feels like I got about a dozen on me just while I've been sittin here reading this thread!

[Ray Hammond]

labs4me, I believe that falls under the heading of T M I- too much information!!!!!!!!!!!      

[selfbowyer]

Thanks guys with these ideas maybe I can consentrate on picking a spot and not feel them little critters crawling everywhere. Glenn

[bowdude]

Chisler, you obviously have never seen a deer or bear tick as they are called in northern wi after it has been on you a while.  My wife got one on her thigh about 10 years ago that was almost completely buried.  Now burrowing, totally hidden, probably not, but I don't think that is what people mean.  That sucker was in there!

[thp]

another shout out for "Repel Permanone".  This stuff works!  I really noticed a big decrease in ticks once I started using the stuff.      You should be able to buy it at Wallyworld or any drugstore.

linkity link:    Repel Permanone  


And oh btw Labs4me my son still has nightmares about that day we walked in on you at McDonald's!     :eek:

[penetrator]

if i pull at the woods to turkey hunt and realalize i forgot my permanone,i go back home,that's bout all i got to say bout that.

[Labs4me]

May as well have a good laugh at my expense. Everyone else does...

[bayoulongbowman]

Labs for me >>>--------->> way to much info!!!!try buger( burger) king next time ...      LOL...Im sick too          

[James Wrenn]

Around here you won't go in the woods but once without treating your clothes. :)Some places don't have a lot of ticks but once land is logged the tick population explodes.Lyme or spotted fever is no fun.Take precautions or you might be sorry later.jmo