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LoneWolf7

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:mad: today I went for a walk around my land and I walked thru some overgrown trails,knee high grass and when I got back to my house I looked down at my pants and I was covered in seed ticks ( smaller than a pencil lead ).I am pissed off because I sprayed myself down with OFF,bugg spray
and I had ,not joking, hundreds on me and I spent the couple of hours picking these damn things off ! Does anybody have the same problem?


I am used to ticks but they have never been this bad,

LoneWolf7 :confused:
 
Those things took over my old summer camp down here: Camp Karankawa. We had to discontinue using the "Eagle Trail" which was for the wilderness survival certification (it wasn't a patch, just an honor). I was lucky enough to be able to take the course there before it was discontinued. We had to make a simple shelter with nothing but a tarp and our BSA SAKs. After having a couple batches of young scouts come out covered in ticks and other unknown parasites, the trail was deemed unsafe and unusable. These new young'ns don't know a thing about sleeping "outdoors." The new course isn't the same thanks to those damn ticks :grumpy:.
 
Guyon said:
One word for you: permethrin.
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+1 for permethrin. I actually have a formula that allows me to buy bulk concentrate and mix myself to treat my clothing instead of paying out the nose for spray cans of it. Permethrin was, and I think still is, used by the military.

However, your best defense is a combination of both Permethrin and Deet.
 
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