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Fun with ticks!
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07/14/20 11:57 PM
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Someone on here, forgive me, but I can't remember who, suggested this thing. It works! I know what I'm getting everyone on my Christmas list. ![banana banana](/forum/images/graemlins/default/banana.gif)
...and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Gen. 1:28
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Re: Fun with ticks!
[Re: Creekrunner]
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07/15/20 12:12 AM
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Biscuit
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I saw a commercial for that thing
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Re: Fun with ticks!
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07/15/20 02:49 AM
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kry226
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There is no fun with ticks... ![salute salute](/forum/images/graemlins/default/saluting-soldier.gif)
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Re: Fun with ticks!
[Re: Creekrunner]
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07/15/20 03:19 AM
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Greg Z
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use Sawyer tick spray and you won't need that thing.
Greg Ziemer Sewell Lexus 214-597-6006 Life's short... Enjoy the ride!
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Re: Fun with ticks!
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07/15/20 03:59 AM
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Shaun Russell
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There is no fun with ticks... ![salute salute](/forum/images/graemlins/default/saluting-soldier.gif) Agree!
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Re: Fun with ticks!
[Re: Creekrunner]
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07/15/20 11:43 AM
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B_Man
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My wife has "Essential Oils" and puts a drop on it then within a minute or two its pulls its head out, starts to walk and then that s when I get it and smash it or put some other hurt on them.
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Re: Fun with ticks!
[Re: Creekrunner]
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07/15/20 11:47 AM
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don k
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Since we have fire ants I have not had a tick on me in years.
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Re: Fun with ticks!
[Re: Creekrunner]
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07/15/20 11:52 AM
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Good info...my wife recently got one on her.....don’t use what we were taught growing up.....hot needle I found out will make them regurgitate bacteria into your body.......you end up with a swollen itchy bite for several weeks.....no bueno....
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Re: Fun with ticks!
[Re: Greg Z]
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07/15/20 12:01 PM
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Creekrunner
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use Sawyer tick spray and you won't need that thing. I spray Repel on me religiously, after a bout with tick fever. I refuse to take a bath in it though.
...and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Gen. 1:28
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Re: Fun with ticks!
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07/15/20 12:17 PM
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Hudbone
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Creek, there is no such thing as "fun with ticks"
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Re: Fun with ticks!
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07/15/20 02:05 PM
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I'll see your tick and raise you fifteen hundred chiggers. ![realmad realmad](/forum/images/graemlins/default/realmad.gif)
If you can't laugh at yourself, give me a call. I'll gladly laugh at you. "I keep trying to see Nancy Pelosi's and Chuck Schumer's point of view, but I can't seem to get my head that far up my [censored]." Senator John Kennedy, Louisiana
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Re: Fun with ticks!
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07/15/20 02:14 PM
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PMK
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I carry a zip lock bag that contains an old sock filled with Seven dust, upon getting out of the truck, I take the sock and bang it around on my legs, haven't had a tick in decades
"everyone that lives dies but not everyone who dies lived..."
~PMK~
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Re: Fun with ticks!
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07/15/20 02:36 PM
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I get ticks on me all the time here and I have tons of fire ants. I got bit by a tick that was infected 2 yrs ago in August and was on Doxy for 2 rounds to fight the infection. That tick was not on me more than a minute or two at most when it bit me on the back of my neck above my collar. The next day it was swollen and my lymph nodes on both sides of my neck were enlarged. I found a tick crawling on my two days ago now after checking a trail cam by a stock tank. In years where the ticks are really bad I can see them on the bucks antlers during the antler growing months. You can see one on the top of the right browtine on this buck..the pic was taken in late August 2014. ![[Linked Image]](https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/pics/userpics/2020/07/full-21480-240637-img_0199.jpg)
Are idiots multiplying faster than normal people?
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Re: Fun with ticks!
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07/15/20 05:32 PM
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I hate ticks. Seems like no matter what I do they always leave a red swollen bite that itches for weeks. Since I was a kid dad used hot needle alcohol on a cotton ball nail polish and tweezers to get them off. Now I just pull them off. During the summer in tick country I wear jeans a tucked in t-shirt and a long sleeve shirt over it and heavily apply OFF to all clothing seams around fists neck douse my hat in it, waist etc.
It's hell eatin em live
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Re: Fun with ticks!
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07/15/20 05:42 PM
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Ringtail
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I've had pretty good luck with the Repel in the red spray can specifically for ticks.
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Re: Fun with ticks!
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07/15/20 05:43 PM
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Dennis in Ft Worth
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Hate them ticks! Some years ago I pulled one off my ankle after walking the pasture. Several days later I broke out with a rash, fever and dehydration ( urine looked like coffee) for almost a week. ![mad mad](/forum/images/graemlins/default/mad.gif)
![[Linked Image]](https://i.ibb.co/5kgxKb9/Ruger49B.jpg) Me and ol' RUGER, 74 years and still shooting.
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Re: Fun with ticks!
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07/15/20 06:11 PM
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I'll see your tick and raise you fifteen hundred chiggers. ![realmad realmad](/forum/images/graemlins/default/realmad.gif) Seems even to me...
Proverbs 27:17 As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.
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Re: Fun with ticks!
[Re: Creekrunner]
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07/15/20 08:22 PM
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redchevy
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Ill never forget after graduating from high school my brother, myself, and a cousin took a trip to north east texas and went hog hunting on Old Sabine Bottom WMA. The first morning we tromped through a bunch of brush and upon further inspection at lunch each of us had about 20-30 ticks. Me and the cousin bathed in OFF and my brother tuffed it out without. That evening brother had about same number as at lunch 20-30, but my cousin and I only had maybe 5 each. It was a tuff 3 days in the summer heat with no bath tent camping, but we survived and even had fun and we did kill us a hog.
It's hell eatin em live
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Re: Fun with ticks!
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07/16/20 02:43 AM
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Ticks are bad chiggers are worse.
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Re: Fun with ticks!
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07/16/20 02:49 AM
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For some reason, I was itching when I got to the end of this thread...
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Re: Fun with ticks!
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07/16/20 03:07 AM
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Creekrunner
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I carry a zip lock bag that contains an old sock filled with Seven dust, upon getting out of the truck, I take the sock and bang it around on my legs, haven't had a tick in decades This is the logical next step for me.
...and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Gen. 1:28
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Re: Fun with ticks!
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07/16/20 03:45 AM
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Rather have a few ticks than a hundred chiggers
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Re: Fun with ticks!
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07/16/20 03:45 AM
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The only vermin I hate worse is leeches.
Combat Infantryman, the ultimate hunter where the prey shoots back. _____________"Illegitimus non carborundum est"_______________
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Re: Fun with ticks!
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07/16/20 01:44 PM
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I carry a zip lock bag that contains an old sock filled with Seven dust, upon getting out of the truck, I take the sock and bang it around on my legs, haven't had a tick in decades This is the logical next step for me. works on ticks and chiggers ... I am a magnet for any type of these blood suckers including mosquitoes, Thermocell fixed the mosquitoes and I carry it religiously. I actually have two of the Seven dust socks in my truck, one in a zip lock in the back floorboard and one in a plastic Folgers coffee can in the tool box. Thermocell and Deep Woods Off in the passenger side door pocket.
"everyone that lives dies but not everyone who dies lived..."
~PMK~
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Re: Fun with ticks!
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07/16/20 01:52 PM
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when I was a young kid, circa mid 1960s, we hunted on top of White Bluff overlooking Lake Buchanan, there was a huge artisan spring up on top, with the creek flowing from it over the face of the bluff. One day out hunting with dad, we got bored and started playing in the creek, building little spreader dams. Upon getting home a few hours later, the lower portion of my body was literally covered in seed ticks, looked like course ground black pepper on my legs up to my waist. My dad put me in a tub of hot water with baking soda, used a fingernail brush scrubbing me to get all those little boogers off, the water was covered in miniature ticks, several times filled the tub to get them all gone. I ran a fever for a week or two and itching like you can not imagine. Every since then, anytime I've had one attach, I get a quarter size whelp that lasts for weeks. I really try to avoid them like the plague. Another trick that dad found, was if they were attached, use a q-tip and Campho-Phenique, dob that on the tick, the oils & camphor seem to make them pull their head out/detach, doesn't leave near as bad of a whelp.
"everyone that lives dies but not everyone who dies lived..."
~PMK~
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