CBranch
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I am looking for some help from our southern hunting friends, as I expect you may have more insight into a tick repellants that don't readily repel deer, since you often hunt in warmer weather. In the past few years, my brother and I have had serious issues with seed tick explosions in our hunting areas. We have a hard time veering from the trail to do any significant scouting without getting eaten alive by the things before a few frosts. If you walk through brush or grass and hit a pod of them, they cover you up, and nothing seems to keep them off, sin more deet or repellant than I care to use, and Therma-cells do nothing to keep them away. I have tried some self proclaimed organic retail repellants with limited success, but the deer seem to smell the stuff a mile away and blow us out. If we are getting in the thick stuff, we keep bulk size hand sanitizer around camp and usually just come back and rub the stuff all over our legs and arms to kill the things. http://voices.yahoo.com/what-seed-ticks-6029558.html?cat=58
Not only are the seed ticks bothersome, but both my Dad's brothers have developed alpha-gal induced anaphylaxis(red meat allergy) from lone star ticks. It is a meat eater's curse. Not to mention the risk for Lyme Disease.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121109083742.htm
Any suggestions for keeping them off in the first place and not scaring off all the deer??
Not only are the seed ticks bothersome, but both my Dad's brothers have developed alpha-gal induced anaphylaxis(red meat allergy) from lone star ticks. It is a meat eater's curse. Not to mention the risk for Lyme Disease.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121109083742.htm
Any suggestions for keeping them off in the first place and not scaring off all the deer??