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What are some things you use to keep ticks off of you during summer time hunting? These ticks here will make you pay!!!

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a swaller of vinegar a day will keep them off you.

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Preventick

It's a collar that I got at the vet. Dog was plumb ate up with ticks before I put it on, no ticks after 48 hours with it on. The downside is it's expensive and only lasts 3 months but dang if it don't work better than anything I ever seen for ticks. Don't work for fleas, but ticks are gone.

http://www.google.com/products/cata...d=0CNkBEPMCMAE#

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I am starting the vinegar today, desperate times call for desperate measures....though I am think about the dogs, I am a little more concerned with how the ticks are feasting on me right now...

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For people use 100% DEET. Works like a charm.

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The really strong deet is good , but putting Sevin dust in a sock and dusting your clothes real good will keep all the bugs and no see-ums off ... it's a whole nuther level of bug free relief.

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it also says do not on skin.this is 100 % deet

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I appreciate the tips

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Sulfur works good. I survey for a living and chiggers and ticks is our worst nightmare. Anything with sulfer in it. You can put diesel on your boots but wouldn't recommend it. Deet works for a little while but wears off. Get you a sock and but some powdered sulfur in it and beat your britches and boots.

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Where would a feller get powdered sulfer?

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I worked for a summer hand clearing for a campground. We took a salt tablet and a sulphur pill everyday. After it got in your system your clothes smelled like a marsh at low tide and by the end of the summer all my work clothes fell apart at the seams. LOL. I think that sulfer turned to battery acid.

I don't spray down before I go hunting now but I take a can of Off. If I get into a bed of chiggers then I spray it on and it kills them right now,but it won't keep them off. Little ticks too.

Ticks are just ticks but chiggers are like mite size and you might get thousands of them. Redbugs are a different thing but I have not gotten a one of them since I reached puberty, but they used to eat me alive.

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as for hounds iv heard y tex python cattle tags work great for most everything....as for the human....i would have to be open to anything because i havnt heard much other than the sevin dust trick..

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People used to go on about how that Skin so Soft worked to keep bugs off ... and dryer sheets in your pockets and socks ....


I think alot of that might deter bugs , but in the brush rubbing them on you or having a jillion ticks fall from trees in your hair calls for more than a deterant ... it calls for heavy artillery like the strong deet or sevin .

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People used to go on about how that Skin so Soft worked to keep bugs off ... and dryer sheets in your pockets and socks ....
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An older fellow I hunted with keep a medicine bottle with powder sulfur in it. About once a week he would dip his knife blade in it, about 1/4 of the blade and eat it. Swore by it.

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You have to watch about talking about skin so soft. It's one of those myths that people want to believe.

Who knows, maybe it does work for a very few people that have a certian chemistry that may mix with it.

But when they put it to the test by placing folks into the bite tanks it just flat didn't work.

DEET works to keep chiggers, ticks, noseeums, redbugs and misquitoes.

I don't know how good Sevin dust works on those things but it does a heck of a job in the garden and I bet it just might work too. Haven't researched that.

The way I use the DEET is to spray it round my britches legs, especially the ankles etc, and my shirt sleeves at the wrists. Then I will squirt it in my hand and rub it on my neck, ears and face.

If you don't sweat too much it will last all night and I won't get a single bite/chigger/tick. The dang misquitos don't even buzz your ears.

But it does stink LOL.

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I strip to nothing and slather Deet on ... and dust my clothes and hair with Sevin ... I'm like the Princess and the Pea when it comes to bugs on me ...

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I sometimes don't take all the precautions I should in the garden. But Sevin runs from a 5% dust to a 80% wettable pwder. It is in the Carbamate family of insecticides. It is a colinesterase inhibitor. Cholinesterase keeps nerve impulses in check. Supposedly it is a carcinogen classed by EPA.

Sevin is something most of us have used all our lives and get some on us when we use it. It is not worth a nickel for fleas around the kennel. I think I would find something else than deliberately put it on myself night after night. Just to be technical, it is not "labelled" for that use.

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I had 2 ticks on me earlier in the year and after that I treated all of my clothes with Permethin spray. You can buy it at a sporting goods store and you treat your clothing and let them dry, it is not for you skin. I haven't had a tick on me since.

I actually bought concentrate from the TSC and made my own spray and was able to make about a gallon of the stuff for $10 when the commercial stuff costs $15 for 7oz. IF I am still on the board a year from now I didn't poison myself doing it......

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wonder if you could make a sulfer spray?

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