Ticks?

[#1 headhunter]

 Are the ticks bad in your area? You know you have to be in the woods getting foodplots ready, working on stands, but when you have to fear ticks, its bad. It seems they are worse this than usual. If they hurt the deer as bad as they do me, we are doing the deer a favor in shooting them.

[joeym]

Use "Deep Woods Off", and hope for the best.  Ticks are everywhere...we live in the woods in the deep south...they are active year round here.

[RoyalOaksTaxidermy]

The three I got in this past few days where covered in fleas and ticks.. Talk about give you the creepy crawlies LOL  INto the freezer they went AND I bug sprayed them , I just cant stand the thought of fleas and or ticks on me  EEEEEEEWWWWW

[Jerry]

Get some permethrin, availible @ Cabelas and other stores.  You spray it only on your cloths, not on skin.  It kills ticks when they get on you.  It is not like other spray that repell them.  I also lasts a few washings.   Great suff.

I just returned from a Lyme confrence, and they also recomend sprays with Permethrin for killing ticks, and mosquitos.

[copper]

A friend of mine works a high fence deal in southern Mo. and they lost 19 deer last year to ticks.

[RumRunner]

they are bad down here, i dont worry much about it.  when i get one i just put fingernail polish on it any it dropps off

[Rickey logan]

Not hardly any at all here.

[Matt]

Last season seemed to be bad, had alot of wts come in covered with them. A good tip if you want to continue to cape them and not stick them in the freezer for awhile is to go to your hardware store and get some bug stop. I spray the deer and my table with it and it kills them dead.

[#1 headhunter]

Thanks for the advice. I' ve never heard of permethrin. Tonight, I found some socks on Ebay with that in them, called GoldBond Buzz off outdoor socks.

[Arrowed lungs]

CT is real bad with them especially this year check and double check yourself afterwards

[tomdes]

We have a state park not 5 miles from us called Green Lakes state park, it's loaded with deer and ticks.. It's ground zero for the highest percentage of ticks infected with Lyme disease. 10-15 years ago, ticks were almost unheard of around here, now they're crawling up our ass....

[George Roof]

For a CHEAPER source of permethrin, go to WalMart.  DON'T go to the sporting goods and buy that small aerosol can of REPEL.  Go to the GARDEN SECTION and find "Eliminator".  It's a pump bottle of permethrin designed for ticks and fleas IN DOG HOUSES.  It's twice as strong as the type they sell hunters.  You can dilute it 50% with water if you like. 

In my shop, I have a cheap blue tarp down for deer "deposits".  I spray it with Eliminator as soon as I get it down. When a fresh hide comes in, it goes on the tarp and I mist the animal with it as well.  Ticks, fleas, lice, mites, and even chiggers die on contact.  Just use rubber gloves as it can be absorbed through the skin.  I also spray down my hunting clothes and bug suits.  Let them dry and the treatment will be effective for up to 2 weeks and endure 2 to 3 wash cycles.

[Bobbi Meyer]

I have trouble in town with the mosquitos...they are TERRIBLE this year...sit on the back patio, and in 4 min time you'll have about 6 welps

[George Roof]

Bobbi, you need a couple of ThermoCells. They sell a picnic style one for large areas.

[Bobbi Meyer]

where can I get one of those George...I've kinda priced the propane foggers, but the chemical is Crazy expensive for those