MOSQUITOES!!!

[burchett.donald]

    Went in this morning before daylight for my first time this season. Been hunting for 30+ years and don't believe I've every seen mosquitoes this bad! They were actually so bad they were making it hard to hear anything else but the high pitch buzz they make. Had 2 deer around 40yds finally work their way down wind after a few minutes and looked like they cut a cartwheel when they smelled all the 100% deet! I want to say I won't hunt anymore till it frosts but that would be a lie. My nephew said he didn't have a problem because he used a Thermocell? I will own one tomarrow. Today I was owned by MOSQUITOES...

[Adam]

I was very skeptical of Thermacells, but finally got curious and gave one a shot.  Let me tell you, it saved my turkey season.  I have a hard enough time sitting still normally, and I certainly can't with mosquitoes swarming me.  Good luck on the rest of your season!

[mullet]

Mosquitos?? What's that? Whoever invented the Thermocell should have won the Nobel Peace Prize.

[Cameroo]

I bought one after battling mosquitoes one evening on a hunt a couple years ago, but I've never had to use it since.  Do they work well even if there is a breeze around you?

[sonny]

Funny story about damn mosquitoes-
a couple of seasons ago I went to a ladder stand and my buddy took his climbing stand to a spot a hundred yards or so
away. The damn mosquitoes were so bad at one point that I just closed my eyes instead of watching the swarm in front
of my face. At dark when I got back to my truck I asked my buddy if they had gotten after him. His response was that
at one point he had considered tying his pull rope around his neck and jumping out of his stand but he feared that it
wouldn't work and that he'd be hanging there with mosquitoes still biting him   

[JW_Halverson]

I was reading an incredible thread on the North American Falconry Exchange from a guy down in the Carolinas.  He was documenting his training of a gorgeous goshawk he had picked up from a breeder when she was just 16 days old.  The story and photos were incredible, she was progressing wonderfully until one day he walked out to check on her and she was stone cold dead.  West Nile virus. 

I am no great fan of chemicals and technology, but having a thermocell around me in skeeter season like you guys are facing would be awfully tempting.  WNV kills people too.

[beetlebailey1977]

Thermacells are the best invention ever made.........could not hunt without one.

[gstoneberg]

I bought one after battling mosquitoes one evening on a hunt a couple years ago, but I've never had to use it since.  Do they work well even if there is a breeze around you?

Really, no skeeters where you live Cam??   We sure have them down here in Dallas and WestNile too.  As to a breeze, the Thermacell works fine as long as the scent blows past your face.  When it gets too windy for it to work it's too windy for the skeeters to fly.  The only time I've had trouble is inside a ground blind.  Whatever the pad is putting out can get too strong and you can get a headache if there's not some air movement.  Also, until the pad heats up you will get bit so I've been starting it before I get to where I'm hunting.

George

[Cameroo]

Oh, there's plenty of skeeters here George.  The thing is I just got really lucky last fall.  My hunt went so well that I was in and out of the bush before the skeeters even knew I was in there! 

It's already getting cool enough now that they aren't that bad in the mornings though.  It almost got sub-zero last night.