Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Dane on April 10, 2010, 08:30:53 am
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Hi guys. Anyone here have any suggestions about getting ticks off you once the little freaks find your nice, tasty blood? I've been splitting some wood and clearing some land for an archery lane, and even with bug juice, I come home with new friends.
Thanks,
Dane
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what kind of bug juice you useing?
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It's in the car. Deep, something like that. Picked it up at CVS.
Dane
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If you stretch the skin around their hold, does it lock them in place so that even they can't release? Then the blood flows in without their control and they glut 'til they burst?
It's an old Wive's tale for mosquitoes, just thought if it were true, it might do the same for ticks?
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get ya some "permanone" or "duranone". Follow the directions. helps a bunch.
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If they are already embeded put sone cooking oil on them it cuts off they,re air supply and they let go.
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I just pinch the little boogers and pull em off, make sure ya get the head though
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I have heard to use a stiff card(like a credit card or drivers license) and scrape them off working from their head back. If you pinch them to pull out or even use a match to heat and make them release they will inject more of the bad stuff(could have Lymes disease).
Dane, get Permanone spray like Timo said. Walmart as well as other stores carries it. You spray your cloth and hang them to dry before you wear them. This will kill any tick, chigger or other insect that touches it. From my experience they eat Deet for breakfast and are little effected by it.
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cooking oil or vasiline,cover them well and they should let loose
i use deep woods of with 40% deet.only timei get a tick is when i forget to spray myself with it
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Thanks for the advice, everyone. I just got home, zero ticks this time. The wife just cringes if I ask her to check me for ticks. :)
Dane
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Pulled the first one of the season out of my leg Wednesday. I just hold their bodies, and gently pull until the tick releases. There is a tool that looks like a melon scoop with a slit in it, that I have seen a veterinarian use to remove them in one quick motion.
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I know the two I picked up at Pappys last year were some little Bears....one took 5 months to heal and quit itching....the other still hasn't quit yet...whenever I sweat...it gets inflamed and itches like mad.... I am a firm believer in Permarone now...... >:D
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cooking oil or vasiline,cover them well and they should let loose
If ya find a tick on yer best little buddy you gonna put some lotion on it and wait fer it to back out or
you gonna grab it and yank it off ;)
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I Ain't Touching That One......
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Dana, Jesse told me a story about that while we were waiting for the rain to quit. I went ahead and hunted in the rain. ::) ;D And Wal-Mart quit selling Permanome down here two years ago because of liability. Seems their clientel can't read directions and were spraying their body.
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I'll check the local Wally World next time I'm there, if they have it I'll pick ya a can up eh.
So what happens if ya use it like after shave ??? 3 eyes or an extra limb either way sounds like it would be useful ;) :D :o
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Lombard has it right....just gently pull them out. All the other "cures" just make them puke their stomach contents into you, which caused the inflammation and infections.....at least that's what I have been taught.
I hate ticks.
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Our WalMart has it. Dana, a friend's Dad is an entomologist and did the studies on Permanone(the active ingredient in it) and said their main problem was getting it weak enough and a safe method of use so it would still kill the ticks, chiggers, etc and not harm humans.
If you hang your cloths on the cloths line and spray them down well, let them dry for 15 to 20 minutes you can wear them safely. Since I started using Permanone I've never had a tick when I used it. The effects will last on your cloths for quite a few days and even through a light washing. You could treat all your cloths before you come to the Classic and not worry about it while there.
Dane, keep an eye on your tick bites. If they start getting a bulls eye redness about them go to your doctor. The North and North East has a pretty bad Lymes disease problem.
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I can buy all I want at the feed store. We can get in in Gallon containers and mix it ourselves and put it in spray bottles. I found two cans when I was in Texas, but used one up at Pappy's last week.
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cooking oil or vasiline,cover them well and they should let loose
If ya find a tick on yer best little buddy you gonna put some lotion on it and wait fer it to back out or
you gonna grab it and yank it off ;)
that is why i have a base layer bug suit.its just like under armor.but bugs cant get under it,skeeters have a hell of a time biting thru it too.
but that dont mean i leave my thermacell at home either
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liquid detergent or other liquid soap on a cottonball. rotate cottonball counterclockwise tick will release. dont ask me why ,it just works.
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I know the two I picked up at Pappys last year were some little Bears....one took 5 months to heal and quit itching....the other still hasn't quit yet...whenever I sweat...it gets inflamed and itches like mad.... I am a firm believer in Permarone now...... >:D
Do I need to tell them about the one you were talking to in the tent when the lady walked through our camp.
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Yea lets hear it ronnie, after all Inquiring minds want to know eh >:D
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About the timethis lady walks by Mikes tent he finds one in a precarious spot and loudly proclaims there you are you little @#$%^&. The ladies face turned red and she said I really didn't wanna walk into that.
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And thats the One that still bothering Me Ronnie...it got all red and inflamed for weeks...had me thinking I got Lyme Disease from it for a while...and still to this day...if I get sweaty...it swells and starts to itch really bad...those little Tennessee Trouser Ticks....are some ........Bad Mother%^&*#s...Shut Your Mouth............ >:D....And that Woman sure was about freaked too wasn't She....... :P
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We don't see many ticks up here, a good thing. Still I was looking at a neat little tool for removing ticks at a hardware store just yesterday. Made of plastic and looks a bit like plastic tweezers. The instructions said to grab the tick by the head and twist counter clockwise
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I just squatted over a Mirror...and pulled it out with my Finger Nails........... ;D
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I just squatted over a Mirror...and pulled it out with my Finger Nails........... ;D
too much info :o :P
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http://www.mec.ca/Products/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524441931921&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302695921&bmUID=1270956117616
here is the pliers that I have seen.....maybe similar to Marc's?
Mods, I figured the link was okay as I am not aware of any sponsors selling this....if I'm wrong, kill this post please.
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Dane
Keep an eye on those bites. I got bitten a couple of years ago and didn't know it. I ended up with Erlichiosis. It was the worst sickness that I've ever had. I can't tell you how bad it makes you feel. Man do I hate ticks. My kids are trained for the 2x a day tick check one spring and summer arrives. Ticks are really bad around here this year. I'm guessing they are enjoying the warm spring as much as we are. ;D
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I heard something interesting while I was hunting at Pappy's. Sodbuster told me the DNR, or whoever is in charge of wildlife in Tenn. has been releaseing a Boatload of Pygmy Rattlesnakes into the wild. It seem's their primary food source is ticks.
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Let's see, tick bite, snake bite, tick bite......uh I'll take tick bite. I just put a little tea tree oil around my feet and socks, and lower pants. I just put a couple drops in my hands rub them together, and rub on my boots, and socks, and lower pants legs, and around my neck. The smell dissipates after awhile. But I also tuck my pants legs into my boots also. You can tape the pants legs also. As for getting them off, I am like Dana, just pull em off. The soap, or oil, covers the breathing ventricles, which is on their sides, like most insects, and mites, etc. those little slotted tools, and special tweezers, work ok. I haven't gotten any ticks on me in Montana, when I was in the woods in the summer, but they are there, because every deer I have killed in the winter, is covered in them. They are weird looking. They look more like a large mite, or louse. Their body is sort of elongated, not like the wood ticks down here. In fact they sort of remind me of small soft water beetles. Without the sharp forearms. They are bad in Va. I went up to Connecticut, to help a friend take some horses up there years ago We stopped off at Petersburg battle field, for a break, and I told her that I was stationed there at Ft, Lee, for a little while when I was in the army, and showed her around the park. Well we went on and stopped at a restaurant and I went in to the bathroom, and washed my hands, and was combing my handle bar mustash, when I felt something, and yep, it was a wood tick. I immediately checked all other post puberty parts, including the hair on my head, that at that time I had.
Wayne
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Wayne those square bodied bugs are louse.
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Jamie, they aren't square bodied, they are flat like a wood tick, but just a little longer in the body. They have a tick head, and legs, just shaped a little differently than what I am used to seeing. If they are Lice they are big ones! :o But the poor Deer, are usually well supplied with them. Soon as the body cools, you can see a few of them crawling around on the hide.
Wayne
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Rattlesnakes eat ticks? Man, that's a new one on me, hehheheh. I just pull em off and squish em with my thumbnail - foolproof....
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But Cowboy, just rember not to pick your teeth with your thumbnail afterwards...... :P
Wayne
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they look like these critters
http://www.entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/livestock/deer_ked.htm
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Yep,the ones we find on deer look like that,the strange part is I have just started noticing them the last few years,maybe 3 or 4. Never seen them before that. :)
Pappy
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yeah, they do look sorta kinda like that. So they are actually parastic flies...... 8)
Wayne
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To keep em off you take rubber bands and put them around your ankles and tuck your pants into them. We called it blousing our boots in the MC. If all else fails and you got hairy legs shave a band down your leg and set fire to the hair and stab them with an ice pick when they run across the shaved part.
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Ice pick! Pappy I was thinking the same thing. Don't ever remember them then they were everywhere.my garage floor was crawling with them one time after skinning 2 deer
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When I was a kid , mom would light a match ,blow it out and stick it on the tick while it was still hot. The tick would pull his head out and try to get away. Worked every time.
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Clarkesville, TN-the seed tick capital of the known universe. :)
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Clarkesville, TN-the seed tick capital of the known universe. :)
That ain't no joke..... >:D
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when I find them on me I just bite them off with my teeth, chew them up and eat them!!! YEAH!! So what if I have to go into the vet every 3 months and get shots along with my dog? At least it helps keep the heartworm away! >:D >:D >:D