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George Ackley
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posted May 26, 2011 09:02 PM
South New Jersey is the chigger capital of the would!
I spent a lot of time in the woods late summer when they are the worst, so this is what I have learned .
there is a product called Permethrin and if you spray your pants and boots with it a day or so before hunting it works great at keeping them off yea .
but if they get yea , and they got be before. i can say this the time it starts to ich they are gone. so the old story about putting ammonia, nail polish , nail polish remover , and all the stuff you have herd about to kill them is a wast of time .
when they do strike the only real stuff to use is
anti-itch medication, hydrocortisone,
a prescription strength steroid cream
chiggers in North America don't usually carry any diseases, the bites themselves can get infected.
so penicillin could help with that .
for me the only thing I DO is a medroldose pack of prednisone.
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LB
if you ever get them on your man sack,
if i was you I would try icy hot or ben gay and i have been told it works better if you apply them both at the same time ,,,,,,,, really,,,,,,it works ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
[ May 27, 2011, 05:54 AM: Message edited by: George Ackley ]
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Leonard
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posted May 26, 2011 09:59 PM
Thanks for the advice, George. I appreciate your concern about my man sak; that's really nice of you.
Good hunting. El Bee
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CrossJ
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posted May 27, 2011 05:20 AM
Permethrin is the chemical most used to deter chiggers and ticks. I use it everywhere from my clothes to inside my horses ears for tick prevention.
The best treatment for me has been to draw the hottest bath you can stand, and add some bleach to it. Soak in that for 20 minutes. Reeves told me that remedy, and it seems to work.
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JD
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posted May 27, 2011 09:52 AM
Yep, hot bath with bleach, my dear old grandma would make all us grandkids do that very thing after a long day of gathering chiggers. It seems to work.
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Leonard
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posted May 27, 2011 10:16 AM
Chiggers? So far as I know, I have never had the pleasure?
But ticks, they scare the shit out of me! I remember when I lived in Minneesota, my dog would get one occasionally, they would swell up like a small grape. Disgusting! We have them out here certain times of the year. I never had one attach to me, knock on wood.
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Paul Melching
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posted May 27, 2011 10:39 AM
I only got them once , what a nightmare!
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Cdog911
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posted May 27, 2011 03:38 PM
When I first started carrying mail, every spring, I'd have a couple days where I'd have a wide swath of chigger bites right around my waist where my belt rode, and from my ankles halfway up my shins. Once you survived the first round, they seemed to go away as if my body developed an immunity to the effects of their saliva. I did try that hot water and bleach and it seemed to work. In these parts, sitting or lying on a lush green lawn is a bad idea.
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the bearhunter
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posted May 27, 2011 04:34 PM
never seen a chigger. lotsa ticks here though. lymes disease it what worries me. a good friends wife got it and basically f-uped her life. it's nothing to pick 20 a day off the dog. i inspect myself every time i come in from the woods. they love the back of my neck. i once threw many on a passed out buddy sleeping in the bunk next to me that i pulled off my dog. he had shaggy hair and it seemed the right thing to do!! next morning we went to the local cafe and he ordered a helping of mashed potatoes. long story short: he bitched cuz there were lumps in them!! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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JD
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posted May 27, 2011 07:55 PM
Remind me to never pass out around Bear.
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32below
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posted May 27, 2011 08:28 PM
Chiggers and ticks in these parts are few and far between. Now them damned mosquitoes are another thing. They are the size of B-52's and some carry West Nile. Ask me about that sometime.
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Randy Roede
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posted May 28, 2011 05:49 AM
Used to get chiggers from time to time calling this time of year, now I spray my clothes with that Bronco fly spray etc. also spray the dogs with it. It really keeps chiggers, ticks, fleas, flies etc. off. Pant legs tucked in your boots keep them from biting around the sock line.
I tried the hot bath bleach, but went to a Q tip with bleach on it when I come out of the shower or bath, I dip the Q tip in a little bottle of bleach I keep in the cabinet and put it on the red spots. They get a hard head on them after the bleach and it sure seems to get rid of them much faster than anything else I have tried.
I've had out of state friends who layed prone shootin prairie dogs all day and be covered with them.
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posted May 28, 2011 11:06 PM
between the stories of bearhunter turning turrets on a "good friend" and the throwing ticks i believe your never ending invation has been revoked bearhunter!!!!! You're a dirty asshole!
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the bearhunter
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posted May 29, 2011 12:31 PM
i am indeed i have one planned for you ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
now if gas would get reasonable,i'd come out and visit ya
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Leonard
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posted May 29, 2011 02:21 PM
Just offering an opinion.
To throw TICKS at a "friend"; hey, those are extremely very nasty critters and it would surely take a PRICK to do such a thing.
I would uninvite you too! God, the thought of those lumpy mashed potatoes makes me ill!
You are in need of a new custom title, Amigo.
Suggestions? Anybody?
Good hunting. LB
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JD
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posted May 29, 2011 04:33 PM
Sheeesh!!! This guy is hard core mean, you guys labeled me as mean cuz I called t-bag a few names.....I NEVER threw ticks at him and then laughed when he ate them!!!
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DanS
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posted May 29, 2011 05:34 PM
Southern MO/ Northern AR, clearing brush one summer, I got ate up with chiggers and ticks. Seemed we tried Campho-Phenique to help relieve the hell they cause.
Any Private area, belt line, armpits, or other hot spots are where they tend to go.
LB, you mentioned "crabs"? Funny story...
Years ago, let's say a friend of mine and his girlfriend were literally rolling in the hay so to speak one evening. They started itching really bad later the next day, and being scared teenagers and all, went to the free clinic 'cause they thought, one gave the other crabs. Anyways they got covered in seed ticks, not crabs. Still pretty uncomfortable.
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TOM64
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posted May 30, 2011 09:08 AM
Went out this morning for a look around. First place that lost the foal, had horses all over, made one stand with nothing showing.
Went to the next place the guys been seeing coyotes and told me to get back after em. Found what I think are dens, made a couple of stands in the 40 mph wind and called it quits.
Been picking ticks off me for the last hour. That DEET spray I used might have stopped them from biting me but they are crawling everywhere, screw this.
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posted May 30, 2011 01:27 PM
Find some of this...
http://www.sawyer.com/faqpermethrin.htm
It works like nothing I've ever tried! It's amazing stuff and doesn't smell bad or make your clothes oily.
Once it dries it's good for several weeks or even months.
Nikonut
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the bearhunter
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posted May 30, 2011 03:51 PM
Niko. i've heard it works great. i hav'nt tried it yet but plan on getting some soon. ticks are diminishing here now but the mosquitoes came out in full force yesterday.
yeah Leonard, i was kinda a dink back than. that was about 15 years ago.. was funny at the time!!.as for the "turret turning", had a hunting bud that was super competitive. would whine like a little girl if some one shot more game than him. one day he got out of the truck and had his rifle in the front seat. while he was gone i spinned his scope screws he missed an easy fox later. got pissed and had to stop to re-site in. so i got in the habit of doing it whenever i had the chance. he never did catch on. would flat out scream that his gun/scope was a P.O.S. have never done it to anyone else. i'm a nice guy now and have toned it down a bit ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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posted May 30, 2011 05:44 PM
Just went and looked I got Sawyer 30% DEET, it sort of worked I guess as I didn't have a single bite but man they were crawling all over me.
I'll try the other stuff too.
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posted May 31, 2011 02:16 PM
Chiggers, deer ticks, mites and the like, never had a problem. I did get poison ivy 6 different times one summer working with my uncle doing landscaping. Poison ivy on the balls is nothing to wish on an enemy.
Spelling!!
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posted May 31, 2011 04:03 PM
100% "DEET" is good to keep insects from biting, but it's oily and will destroy/melt some plastics and paint coatings.
The Permethrin really keeps them off you to begin with... combined they do wonders and I've never had deer or coyotes seem to notice or locate any smell. I got my "Sawyer's clothing spray" at Cabela's.
Both are in my hunting bag every time I go out. At least until winter gets here!
It's reported that Permethrin is bad for cats... here kitty, kitty... meow!
Edit:a cup of chlorine bleach in a bath works great on poison oak and ivy by neutralizing the alkaloids they produce. Some folks are allergic to heavy concentrations of bleach so use with caution!
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posted June 02, 2011 12:54 AM
BNB Planned for me huh? Don't worry what goes around comes around LOLOLOL!!!!!!
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Jay Nistetter
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posted June 02, 2011 04:58 AM
Chiggers is just part of life growing up in OK.
I seem to remember something about using dabs of nail polish on the itchy sores.
As far as poison ivy, 4 weeks ago I was sitting next to a fence watching a two-track that was corned for hogs when I hear my partner half whisper..."Jay. Are you allergic to poison ivy"?
I replied "I don't think so". Partner said "Well, you're sittin' in it".
I performed a two-cheek two-step I've never done before. Just thinking about it made me itch and I couldn't sit still waiting for hogs to show.
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posted June 02, 2011 05:38 AM
Ya Jay, the nail polish worked but hair spray worked good too and was easier to apply. Of course you didn't get the polkadotted affect but you can't have everything in life.
As a kid and I guess even as an adult (as I sit here scratching), I just always seemed to have chiggers throughout the summer.
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