Worst part of early season

The damn ticks. We put out 5 climbers today. When I got home and started to change, I found 9 ticks on me. Little bastards. We did, however, see 4 does while putting up one of the stands. They walked up on us while we were deciding on a tree, and were about 30 yards away. We must have at least one good stand location. :D

 

Just found another one crawling on me, 4 hours later. I roasted him like a marshmellow. He won't be coming back.

 

What is temp there. We have been in the low 70's for the highs and over nights been in the 40's.

 

Had the tick issue too last weekend. HATE those blood sucking little buggers.

 

Past couple days has been 70s as a high, but was high 90s-100s last week. Next week is high 80s-low 90s. Opening day next Thursday. Hoping huge cold front hits Wed night.

 

Spray your clothes with Permethrin. Lyme disease is nothing to play around with, and a new fatal disease is spreading throughout the Midwest too.

 

I walked into a nest of baby ticks on opening day of dove season. Looked like a black wall on my socks

 

Sawyers brand clothing spray works well, I've tried it and recommend it.

 

They were seed ticks, so not real worried about it. Next time I will be dousing myself in repellant, busted by deer or not, makes me no mind. Just tossed my clothes into the washer and hit sanitation cycle. I got a washer with sanitation cycle to kill the bugs I bring home from work. Trust me, after dealing with MRSA, VRE, and Cdiff each week, ticks don't scare me. That doesn't mean I don't hate them though!

I think the worst part is that you feel them crawling all over you for a long time after they're all gone...

 

I think the biting flies ate all of the ticks down here in southern IL.

 

speaking of baby ticks oh god i had to have atleast 300 on me last weekend walked into a nest and they were all over me took me hours to get off

 

I second the Sawyers stuff. I started treating my clothes with it two seasons ago and I haven't had a tick on me yet. Well, a live tick anyway.

We had them so bad here one season. The buck in my profile pic had his twig and giggle berries covered by about 100 of them, and behind his ears were lumps of them as well.

A guy at our rifle camp has Lymes. Nasty stuff to say the least.

 

And here I was going to use off, guess I'll be looking into this sawyers stuff

 

Mosquitos & gnats !!

 

You guy's are making me itch just talking about it.

 

I too have had lymes. A Deer Tick bit me on the back side of my knee on my right leg. The spot went purple and black in a day and I broke into fever for a couple days. Since it was during military training I pushed through marching miles every day with a fever and biv wacking. I was a kid then and careless, I had a ring develop a few weeks later and it got bigger and bigger until it nearly covered my whole leg. Took me about two months from the time I was bit to recieve treatment. Treatment consists of pills taken twice a day for about two weeks. Not really that big of a deal. There are long term side effect to contracting that disease and the sooner you recognise it and get it treated the better off you will be.

 

I agree the worst thing about warm weather in the woods is the ticks!! Nothing worse, but then again you can't pass up on early season bowhunting!

 

http://www.cabelas.com/product/Sawy...&Ntt=sawyers&WTz_l=Header;Search-All+Products This is the stuff? I found one of those little bastards in my belly button this morning. I'm going to cabela's as soon as it opens today and I'm going to spray every hunting article of clothing I own.

 

For me its been bees this early archery season, we are having record highs out here and the bees are out in full force, I have been stung 7 times in the last 2 weeks. Monday while on stand I got hit in the face and back of the neck by bald face hornets, dirty little buggars...

 

so far no ticks here but the permethrin is the best bet. need to go pick up some Sawyer's