Bit Of A Problem Here...

[STPC]

OFF! Deepwoods Sportsman - the lotion type, not the spray.  This stuff works wonders on ticks, mosquitoes and any other biting, sucking creepy crawler.  Here is southeastern NC it is a given that you will have to deal w/these things and the ticks will find you year-round so it's best to be prepared.

[Crestliner2008]

Permethrin works - period. Whenever I venture forth with a friend, he inevitably gets a few ticks. I haven't had a tick on me in years, and I do spend a lot of time in the woods and streams. I also spray my shoes & socks, as well as my jeans and hats.

 

I also use a 100% DEET lotion on exposed skin, to ward off mosquitoes and knats. This suppose to repel ticks too, but I've had ticks when using just the DEET, so I double buffer with a clothing soak. Back about 35 years or so, the towns use to spray insecticide for mosquitoes. It did a number on the tick population, to the point where you didn't even have to think about it being a problem. Nowadays, with the environmentalist all over us sportsmen, we have to take other precautions. What's been said here works.

[RoLo]

Years ago I did a lot of woodchuck hunting with a 270 rifle (we called it hog-busting and were welcomed by farmers).

Back in the 60s and 70s, the clover fields in Whitehouse, NJ were "teeming" with deer ticks.

This was before Lyme Disease made press, so I always came home with a few dozen ticks on my body.

Before taking to the fields, I would place an elastic band around the bottom of each pant leg and that did the trick.

When I came home in the evening, there'd be a dozen or more ticks around the bottom of each ankle band. 

Granted, I was young, dumb and impetuous back then, and would take more precautionary measures today, 

but a couple of ticks is nothing to freak-out about.

 

Roger

[boostr]

I think I just gave up bank fishing...

I had an infestation once in my bedroom when I lived in Miami. Saw a few ticks on my walls and in the popcorn ceiling, went to look under my bed where we stored some bedding, thousands of them fat blood engorged females, little males, and eggs everywhere. My dog had brought them into the apartment. Chucked everything out the second floor window, and set of like six Raid bombs...

That did the trick. Felt itchy for a week after that.

A buddy of mine told me a story when he was younger and he was out hunting, the next day he found out he had a tick on his leathery cheerio or butt hole as some of you call it. To make it worse he had to go to the doctor so he could get it removed.... that would of been a great Instagram photo.

[jigabooyah]

When I was about 4 years of age I had a tick get into my ear canal. 

[RoLo]

A buddy of mine told me a story when he was younger and he was out hunting, the next day he found out he had a tick on his leathery cheerio or butt hole as some of you call it. To make it worse he had to go to the doctor so he could get it removed.... that would of been a great Instagram photo.

 

I've dislodged dozens of embedded ticks from my body, but if you discover them during the 1st or 2nd day

they won't become engorged with blood. If the tick isn't deeply embedded, we occasionally got them to back out

by holding a match nearby or pouring rubbing alcohol on them. Nevertheless, once their head is buried in skin,

that will not work.  That's when I grab them with a tweezers and YANK them out....that works every time 

 

Roger

[boostr]

Imagine putting rubbing alcohol on your leathery cheerio... Ouch, Yikes, no thanks mister.

[ColdSVT]

Ever get into the Chiggers?

I seriously wanted to cut off my arm!