Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Lots of ticks this year

Be careful out there.

Ya don't wanna get Corona with Lyme.

LOL !

Yep. That’d be my guess. Haven’t seen one in years.

Now if we could just get rid of the damn chiggers !

There are LOTS in my area. I stay out of the woods with the exception of riding my ATV on my trails. I got 5 bites so far and found quite a few on my clothes. All the bites were just started and picked off easy, they weren't buried in. Still the bites stay itchy and swollen for weeks. I get tested for Lyme once a year when I have blood drawn for my annual physical. I hate those vile little things.

I don't like to get chemicals on me. I have used DEET many times in my misspent youth. I am hearing advice on several other chemicals that you can douse yourself with.
I get 10 to 15 tick bites per year and they have never made me sick yet, although, I know that they can. Some things are worse than tick bites, no way I am spraying those chemicals on my clothes and running around in the woods for 10 hours.

Twenty years ago, I was made very sick by lead poisoning and I still don't know how I contracted that ailment. No way I am spraying the DEET or other noxious chemical on my skin or clothing.

Hose all your schit with Permethrin.

It will be a lot better than the schit a tick from the east coast can give you. Especially if you’re old.

If a single woman visits the farm, a “check you for ticks” is mandatory. I get all kinds of “thank you” sex for removing even a single tick .

lot of ticks in your cistern?

Methed out whores tend to be appreciative.

Beaver’s a perfect example.

LOL

We have lots of ticks here. I go around the outside of my yard and spread tick granules every year. Spread then around the house too. Never get ticks in the yard and repels ants from coming in the house. At deer camp we spread tick granules over the whole yard never have to worry about them.
Our dog gets medicine that kills ticks if she has one bite her.

SOBs got six off and out of me from this mornings trek .
Going to have to resort to spray , dam it .
Kenneth

Holy [bleep] , ole lady just came home and found five more bit in . Definitely going to spray now , wasn’t in the woods but 2 hours or less .
Kenneth

I was working in the yard for an hour or so 2 days ago, wife checked me and I check myself, (found one) took a shower and later still found a little one bit in!
Worst I have seen them in years

Years ago it was rare to even see the smaller deer ticks in northern WI., but the wood ticks were common enough. Now the smaller Lyme carrier small deer ticks are everywhere up north and a lot harder to spot. I blouse my socks over my pants legs before I walk around in the woods now that and long sleeves keeps them on the outside before they get me.

We have a boy in our scout troop who just came down with Rocky Mtn Spotted fever from a tick bite. Yesterday he had a fever of 103. Thank God for modern antibiotics.
Spotted fever is actually a rarity, about 2000 cases nationwide in an average year and most of those in the south. Regardless of the name, its actually rare in the Rockies.

Just heard about a trick to do with duck tape. You wrap it around the bottom of your pants leg and sleeves with the sticky side out. The idea is that it works like fly paper and the ticks get stuck to it before they can crawl up your pants. May try that as I have nothing to loose

Get you some chickens and Guinea fowl and you won't find any of those little bastards.

Keep in mind that light, especially sunlight diminishes the effectiveness and duration of Permethrin.

I am not to keen on chem dousing. What about dusting with Diatomaceous earth? Old timers I knew would use sulfur dust.

Diatomaceous earth isn't going to scratch them to death just being on your clothes.

DEET is nasty but 40% or better applied properly and on schedule works. If you use concentrated permethrin to blend your own, use caution. I accidentally spilled a little on my hand once mixing up a tank for the garden. That spot was numb for half an hour. I would get the permethrin concentrate that isn't in a petroleum solution. It doesn't stink as bad.