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Anyone ever try it? Just wondering if it works.

Works for me with Nebraska early season mosquitoes.

I've never tried one but I've read up on them. Refill prices sure vary a lot. Do some searching. Some dealers really try to get in your pocket on them.

Go and buy one right now and it will be the best 25 bucks you ever spent and you can thank me publicly later.......early season bowhunts were a blood letting before thermacells, and spring turkey hunts?....just awful before thermacells.

+1 I love mine....and when its cold outside makes for a great handwarmer too.

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They work!

Another thing..they have never spooked a deer for me yet! that I know of...

Maybe we have a different type of mosquito here in Idaho - didn't work worth a darn... In fact, I think the heat source was attracting them. Gave up trying to fish after about half an hour. Tried it again twice on camping trips with the same result.

If it is windy, (like out on a lake) or you are moving, they don't work very well. But if there is little or no wind (in the south this is skeeter time) they do a great job. Just put it between your feet if you are on a stand or between your legs if you are sitting on the ground. They work especially well in ground blinds that are somewhat enclosed. Skeeters must be dang tough in Idaho.

Didn't work worth a dang on Thorofare Mosquitos. Biggest disapointment I've had in a while.

Well, there are lots of species of skeeters. Maybe the stinky stuff they use isn't what mountain skeeters are afraid of.

They work and work well. If you think they aren't working, just turn them off (especially early season bow hunting ot turkey hunting) and in 5 minutes, you will realize how well it was working. I use mine on the back deck at home as much as I do while hunting. Here in the South, they area life saver!
On a side note, the refils are expensive but the butane portion is the same one that is used in a cordless curling iron. You can buy them in the cosmetic section at Wal-mart for 1/2 of what the therma-cell brand costs. also, I have found that the pads work until they turn all the way white. Buy the large multi=pack and you get 4 refils cylinders and 12-16 pads, I think. That lasts a long time for $20 or so. Money well spent!

By the way, I see guys hanging them from their belt or in a holster on their side in magazines and have seen guys doing that on hunt clubs. In my opinion, they work best lying flat where the heat rises through the blue pads. If it is verticle, I can't see how it would work so for those who say it doesn't work, do you mind telling us how you were using them? Also, most of the time if it is too windy for the Therma-cell to work, the bugs aren;t that bad either, from my experience.

Had it facing up (like you, and the instructions, say) on the dock beside me that I was sitting on while fishing, or between us on a small portable table while camping. No breeze all three times. Each time turned it off, and didn't notice the mosquitos getting worse; they got a whole lot better when I put the 100% DEET on...

Just did an online search for mosquito distribution maps and found out Idaho only shares 2 of the 4 types of mosquitos with the southern/eastern United States. Maybe that's the difference???

I have not used one personally, but I've been told they work here - on bear stand too.

do they repel gnats/blackflies/etc as well as mosquitoes?

got a big cattle ranch that wraps around my property, so we also get horseflies, etc...most times it isnt the skeeters that bother us, its the other critters.

I use one on the bear stands when in Canada bowhunting, and they work excellent.

Well looks like I am gonna pick up a couple and try them on some spring fishing trips, a PUBLIC THANK YOU for everybody whom participated. I will let you know how they worked for me.

Thanks Again.