I stopped bowhunting altogether because of the deer ticks and lone star ticks that are prevalent here on Long Island. If you walk in the wrong areas, you can pick up a tick with every step. At some point, it just isn't worth it anymore.
Ticks
- Thread starter hogpatrol
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We had a nice warm spell here the last week, in N.Wisco. I'm sure they were moving on sunny hillsides and such.
Wood ticks are bad enough, but the damned Deer ticks are the worst.
Last 2 years, daily dog run required tick inspection for dog and Us.
Record for dag was 76, for me it was 32.
I had Lymes, maybe 15 years ago, I was having issues and went to see Doc, He missed it because at that time the disease was just setting in here. after 6 months of problems i went to another doctor and INSISTED on blood tests...positive.
By then it did a number on my joints and heart.
Wood ticks are bad enough, but the damned Deer ticks are the worst.
Last 2 years, daily dog run required tick inspection for dog and Us.
Record for dag was 76, for me it was 32.
I had Lymes, maybe 15 years ago, I was having issues and went to see Doc, He missed it because at that time the disease was just setting in here. after 6 months of problems i went to another doctor and INSISTED on blood tests...positive.
By then it did a number on my joints and heart.
dusterdave173
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Protect yourself
I had Rocky Mtn Spotted tick fever
It is Awful! It reprograms your internal thermostat and not in a good way
Takes a long time to recover fully without the cramps in your hands etc
I had Rocky Mtn Spotted tick fever
It is Awful! It reprograms your internal thermostat and not in a good way
Takes a long time to recover fully without the cramps in your hands etc
I did it's 24hrs I'm positive. Rocky mountain spotted fever is Lyme disease.. I've been through the whole spill
Also have close friends that have gone through the treatment.
Well maybe I stand corrected and maybe medical thoughts have recently changed since my encounter.my doctor said and Internet along with every other source was always 24,hrs looks like things might have changed a little....
I stand corrected slightly corrected 4-6 hrs possibly not 24hrs ? Not sure they know now?
Yeah stay sprayed down
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My friends dr. Told him they found its sexually transmitted.him and his wife claims a dr prescribed her wrong medication and it triggered the Lyme disease? Idk what they said but supposedly it caused her to be locked up and they both seen a specialist in Tennessee to be treated.?idk just what they said and this was very early in Lyme disease being in Alabama..
Wasn't around here yet like other places
Wasn't around here yet like other places
Coyotefurharvester
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When I worked on a Lyme disease vector study, about 1 in 5 adult deer(blacklegged) tick carried the bacteria. I was in and out of tick habitat 3-4 days a week, usually I taped my pant cuffs and applied deet products to my boots/pants. And worked under a ventilation hood to process ticks. Now when I hit tick habitat I wear pants/boots treated with permethrin. I haven't tried tick eliminator clothing, may try it on a grouse hunt this fall. Just don't get the permethrin on your skin, wear it dried on outer clothes.
Lee Whitsel
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My wife got that Rocky Mountain fever while walking threw brush in YNP to get a pic of a new born baby antelope. Didn't know she got bit but 48 hours after the fact I rushed her t0 the ER and she would of never made it threw the night the doc said, Her heart was hardly beating any more. Be careful in brushy area's....
ELR LVR
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that must be the stuff I buy from Tractor Supply then, I get the 2 mixed up sometimes.
I will remember it now as Perm is "permanent" ........synthetic made
Pyrethrin is made from flowers............but still works well and is just safer on the skin but not as long lasting
Y'all can test this, get a tick and put it in the sink
Spray it with Permethrine and see how long it takes before his legs stop moving.
(less than 1 minute)
I do believe I read this is the same exact stuff the Military uses to insect proof their clothing - Google it
I get the 10% concentrate solution then mix in a spray bottle.
Oh, it kills lice too, I've had pet Hawks and Ravens and they always have lice and with this stuff those are gone in one day and didn't hurt the Bird.
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Understand. Almost did me in as well.....
I'm on 6 wooded acres in western Oregon with two big hairy dogs that get at least two long walks around the property every day. We typically find one or two ticks on the dogs in the early spring. Then nothing the rest of the year and zero fleas. We also have lots of poison oak that we have become insensitive to. I'm convinced that the poison oak takes out the ticks and purposely avoid mowing it down and walk me and the dogs through it daily. We only find ticks before the poison oak leaves out.
MikeT49
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Ticks suck, but at times can provide benefits. Many moons ago I went for a walk in the woods with my girlfriend along the South Fork of the Eau Claire river. It was a very warm spring day for Wis. Got back to my car and realized we both had collected a bunch of ticks. Kinda freaked out my GF. As they say "when opportunity knocks" I calmly say to her "you're gonna have to take off your clothes"
ELR LVR
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Very interesting, I'm going to have to investigste this further because my place is very similar to how you describe yours, 5 Acres, Berry Bushes and Poison oak on the perimeter.
One of my dogs may get a tick only occasionally
Also am very insenitive to poison oak to the point i can rub the leaves all over my hands and not get itchy.
So, this being the case I wonder if rubbing posion oak on me instead, may be a natural easy defense
I just give my dogs lots of love, seems to do the trick keeping the bugs off of me, although I inadvertently sat down in the middle of a lady bug frenzy last year while deer hunting. In short order I and my rifle were covered in em.
Tedk
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100 percent pure off the grocer's spice rack?
We have ticks pretty bad here in southeastern NC but they usually show up around late April to early May. I use the same thing others have recommended, Permethrin. I buy the Tractor Supply Gordons brand because we have livestock and we use it on them and their housing for flies and bugs. When hunting from a ground blind i use it to spray the outside and inside about a month before opening day and it works wonders on not just ticks but other bugs including mosquitoes. I don't use the Gordons on my cloths but i'm sure it'll work i've always used the Sawyer brand spray can to treat my cloths with and i haven't had much trouble with ticks while in the woods
k260
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I don't recall ever looking at the purity but that's where we get it. Or Amazon...
Somebody said a mouthful when they said nobody burns anymore. All the bug spray in the world wont have the same effect as a hot fire in the sobs. living room. Doug
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