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This year the deer taken where I hunt had ticks in the front "arm pits" and between the rear legs. We haven't had ticks on the deer this late before. Anyone else finding ticks on their deer?

We always have ticks on deer here in the Catskills all season. They are particularly bad this year.

Deer here in western VA I have shot have been loaded with ticks. I pulled several ticks off myself during early muzzleloader.

All 3 of the deer I shot so far this season in southern Maryland had ticks on them

We always do down here.

Not this late in the year, but deer I shoot in September are usually crawlin' with 'em.

Not back east, but the Muleys I've killed and seen killed in late November here, in temps well below zero, still have a bunch of ticks. I've never not seen it. Most on the head.

Cold temps will do nothing to lessen their numbers once they're on an animal. They're nice and warm enjoying a blood meal. Moose in Maine die from enemia every winter because of all the ticks feeding on them.

The buck I shot in Kansas on Wednesday had many ticks on it, so much I pointed them out to dad when we were skinning it. I've seen ticks on deer, just not as many or as big as these were. The doe my boy shot in early September was also riddled in ticks.

My buck this fall only had one tick on him... Unfortunately it was right on the end of his pecker.

First year I've seen deer keds in my area though.

Which get called ticks a lot. 'Round these parts anyway.

Yep.

-Ken

Ticks have been scarce around here for a couple of years. I always permethrin up for archery season, but haven’t re-upped my spray since the first application. Saw zero on my buck killed 11-09.

Ticks on our deer are a pretty common thing here in KY. I think every deer we took at camp this year, 7 total, had them.

On us? Our place used to be crawling with ticks. I could walk around the house in the summer and come in the house with 10 of them on me. If memory serves, for all my hiking around, hunting, camping and so forth, I think I picked one off of me this year.

Saw several ticks on deer taken at hunt camp this year. SW Va.

Ticks are no joke. One tick put me in intensive care for a week. My heart rate was 25. Lyme Carditis. Stage 3 heart block, temporary pacemaker and a month of daily Doxycycline administered into a picc line that lead from my arm directly to my heart.

I got up to use the bathroom and passed out on the floor. My wife heard it and called 911. Doc said if I stayed in bed, I wouldn't have woken up.

All better now but That Sucked!

Damn.. there's a cautionary tale if there ever was one.
Glad you recovered!

When my son and I were skinning my deer in early November he had one crawling up his arm from the deer. We know it was from the deer because he didn't go hunting or in the woods that day. I always check from head to toe for ticks when I come in from the woods but even then you can miss those little bastards.

I know a nurse here that got Alphagal , I think it's called from a tick deer hunting. She can't eat or touch mammal meat of any kind without having a severe allergic reaction. No known cure for it. She has to eat fish and birds for meat. She loved venison.

I shot a buck on November 14th in Mn that was covered in ticks.

Wow, just googled that. Had never heard of Alpha-gal syndrome before. Now I hate ticks even more.