Those disgusting ticks are going to be bad again this year

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Opening day of Turkey season today in Southern Michigan. It was over 70° and I didn't get a Gobbler but the ticks are out. I usually use Sawyer's repellant but I wasn't thinking about ticks this morning. Had three of those little b******* on me today. Yuck.
 
I must be really lucky. They latch on me multiple times each year and I’ve never gotten sick. Not once.

I’m not a tick denier. I know you can get really sick from them. I’ve just gotten away with it long enough that I don’t think of them anymore. I just pick them off and flick them skyward.
 
the one place i am allowed to shoot every now and then is the worst place i have ever seen ticks at. no joke you can see them jumping and moving around. they give me the willies. i have joked with the land owner if he got ginny hens to eat the ticks they would die from diabetes from being to fat. one thing i have notest is they seem to prefer some over others, i very rarely get them on me. my buddy will have 5 or 6 in 20 mins at the one place.

i here them battery powder repellents, work good for the ticks and other bugs i like those cheesy 50s sci fi movies one about ticks would be very entertaining. and if you have never seen a tick ball you are lucky.
 
The cloths I wear hunting and when working on the hunting property and even just doing yard work are always sprayed with Sawyers permethrin. I rarely have a tic actually bite me when I have my cloths treated.
 
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Just had a 4 week bout of something that left me weak with a fever and joint aches. I just got my Lyme's test back yesterday. It turned out negative so I guess I had something else ... maybe West Nile disease.:eek:
I usually get 7-10 tick bites each year. They are everywhere.
 
I use pesticide grade Permethrin SFR that dilute myself for my hunting clothes, interior of the truck, and the fur of any game I take.

I also use it to treat my dogs bedding and that has really helped them stay tick free.

I’m from MI originally and I never once even saw a tick there. I knew they were there but never saw one on anyone or any animal and I worked on a dairy farm.
 
When younger, in the south, our neighbor had two short haired hunting dogs and he put garlic powder in their food. He said it made them taste bad to ticks. Now me, I love onion and garlic powder. Use them a lot. I've verrrry seldom found a tick and then usually just crawling. Seems to work for 'skeeters too; they don't bother me, but they eat my wife up. YMMV.....(Always wanted to say that)
 
I've lived here in MI my entire life of 55 years and we never worried about or even thought about ticks until about 5 years ago. I had never even seen one until then. Now they are everywhere.
 
the one place i am allowed to shoot every now and then is the worst place i have ever seen ticks at. no joke you can see them jumping and moving around. they give me the willies. i have joked with the land owner if he got ginny hens to eat the ticks they would die from diabetes from being to fat. one thing i have notest is they seem to prefer some over others, i very rarely get them on me. my buddy will have 5 or 6 in 20 mins at the one place.

i here them battery powder repellents, work good for the ticks and other bugs i like those cheesy 50s sci fi movies one about ticks would be very entertaining. and if you have never seen a tick ball you are lucky.

It's ridiculous. I get so many bug bites: ticks, spiders, mosquitos you name it. I went camping last weekend with my girlfriend thinking the bugs wouldn't be that bad. She came out of it without a single bite while I'm still finding new ones everywhere :cuss:
 
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When younger, in the south, our neighbor had two short haired hunting dogs and he put garlic powder in their food. He said it made them taste bad to ticks. Now me, I love onion and garlic powder. Use them a lot. I've verrrry seldom found a tick and then usually just crawling. Seems to work for 'skeeters too; they don't bother me, but they eat my wife up. YMMV.....(Always wanted to say that)

Hmm time for me to start chomping onions then.
 
It's ridiculous. I get so many bug bites: ticks, spiders, mosquitos you name it. I went camping last weekend thinking the bugs wouldn't be that bad. She came out of it without a single bite while I'm still finding new ones everywhere :cuss:
it would be interesting to do a study on blood type and people ticks attract to. i think they like people with diabetes to. it just don't make sense sometime 2 people can go in the woods and one be covered and the other nothing. i don't think size matters, i am big and my buddy is normal size and he will be covered. excuse me i need a shower.
 
It's ridiculous. I get so many bug bites: ticks, spiders, mosquitos you name it. I went camping last weekend with my girlfriend thinking the bugs wouldn't be that bad. She came out of it without a single bite while I'm still finding new ones everywhere :cuss:
Stop being so delicious!

my wife an I are the opposite, she gets nommed, and I'm fine. Day time mosquitos are the only things that bite me.
After carrying a pig out of a place I didn't wanna be at night (no time to let the ticks get off) I was completely covered, so. Much so I stripped naked, bagged my clothes and had a buddy hose me off before the drive home didn't even get a nibble.
 
Stop being so delicious!

my wife an I are the opposite, she gets nommed, and I'm fine. Day time mosquitos are the only things that bite me.
After carrying a pig out of a place I didn't wanna be at night (no time to let the ticks get off) I was completely covered, so. Much so I stripped naked, bagged my clothes and had a buddy hose me off before the drive home didn't even get a nibble.
i would have burned the clothes lol.
 
I've lived here in MI my entire life of 55 years and we never worried about or even thought about ticks until about 5 years ago. I had never even seen one until then. Now they are everywhere.

Interesting. My dad has not said anything about them and I hunt up there every Novembet but it may be too cold for them by then.

I did know they were around and someone from my home town died from complications from getting Lyme disease a few years prior. He had a deer farm though so he was more at risk than average.
 
ive been tick bitten thousands of times. I never really paid them much attention other than to pull them off.

then one day a buddy came over to shoot and his brother in law tagged along with him.good guy, ended up working with him for a couple years later.

he told a harrowing story of when he got tick fever. unbelievable suffering. he said he was so sick at one time,he asked his wife to take all his firearms and store them with relatives so he did not commit suicide. this went on for over a year before he got better.even today years later ive had people tell me he is maybe only 75% of his former self.

it scared me bad. I now spray down every morning on my way out the door.

if chiggers ever start spreading diseases they will wipe out mankind in many areas.
 
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