So the public hunting land that is close to home I have picked out for short day trips and even some after work hunts is badly infested with chiggers and ticks. I took my wife camping there almost two years ago. I took her hiking for photography. We walked up on some does and fawns. One of the fawns we actually thought was blind in one eye from who knows what. When we pulled the images up on the computer, you could actually see the little fawn had some many ticks on its eye it was swollen shut. This was a single night camp over, unfortunately the showers were locked out, so we didn't get to shower that night and by the time we woke up both of us had no less than 50 some odd ticks. You would think I would remember such an even like that but no, I am goofy. Monday after work I went and pre-scouted a couple of quick areas, not wanting to have the same tick incident as last time, I did use a little bit of off, Obviously not enough. This morning I am itching so bad, i think it is worse than poison ivey. I have tons of chigger bites on my legs, the wife has pulled probably 8-10 ticks off me, the tiny tiny ones you can barely see with 47 year old eyes,.
This is my issue, the Public area is bow hunting only, every year a few decent deer are taken and seen from this area, but how does a guy hunt this with any kind of peace of mind of not spraying deep woods off on their hunting clothes and being busted by the deer before I even get out of the jeep.
I have never hunted an area this bad, so I am at a loss.
Thanks for any help guys,
(Yes I know I am scouting too late, I am looking for confirmation and not actually going through the areas I intend to hunt. more or less, long distant scouts.)
