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BOLO for suspicious vines!

Rarely catch the stuff. If anything, I’ll get a few spots between my fingers. I was always the one drafted to pull out the poison ivy when needed. We would build bonfires as kids or play in the woods and my brother would stay outside the tree line. He was allergic. He would still get it and I never would. Glad I don’t have to deal with that.
 
Yuck! I got a shot and it seems to be helping.
fawnzy said:
My legs started to react before I could get to a cleaning station. I’ve had it before and seem to be more sensitive now. I’ve been on prednisone for 2 weeks now. Things have improved. Still a mess though.


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Yuck is right. One week ago it was so bad it was soaking through my pant legs


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I need to do a video on poison ivy identification some time. Surprising how many people don’t recognize it and get ate up with a rash. I always was into plants and things when I was younger so I can spot PI from a distance and have had to pass up many trees that I wanted to climb but were covered up in it. I hate the stuff, some places it grows rampant, a few spots I found it on almost every climbable tree. It’s frustrating


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bj139 said:
I selected a nice tree to climb a few weeks ago and it looked clean. I reached around to set up my climbing stick and grabbed a hairy vine. The only hairy vines up trees I have ever seen was poison ivy. Looking up further there were poison ivy leaves. I went back to the car and dumped a bottle of drinking water on my hands. I climbed another tree. When I got home I took a shower and scrubbed my hands real good. I didn't get poison ivy blisters but now I look all the way around a tree before climbing it.
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Virginia creeper and winter creeper also have hairy vines. But they look different. Poison ivy hairs look like pubes... lol


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When I am going to do a day of summer scouting, or early season hunting, i try to remember to put a Dawn pre lathered washcloth in a Ziploc, and hit exposed areas as soon as I finish. If I forget, I hit it up as soon as I get home. Haven't had much problem with it.
 
People always ask what the best tree to hunt out of a saddle is. It’s been my experience that it’s the one covered in poison ivy.

I hate the stuff. Seem to avoid bad rashes now with dawn and scrubbing immediately after being in woods. And I wear long sleeves and gloves and both go straight in wash if I know I come into contact
 
I couldn’t imagine selecting a tree without poison ivy back home in La. Does that even exist? We would hunt hogs in the summer and set stands. Cut a hole through the vines to sit in or go up with sticks. Hunt it again a few weeks later and that black sap is running down the tree from them.
 
swampsnyper said:
I couldn’t imagine selecting a tree without poison ivy back home in La. Does that even exist? We would hunt hogs in the summer and set stands. Cut a hole through the vines to sit in or go up with sticks. Hunt it again a few weeks later and that black sap is running down the tree from them.
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This is one of the reasons I love scouting just after season closes. Any tree I consider a potential sit tree gets a gap cut out of the vines. By the time season comes around, those vines are dry as a bone. Obviously, run-n-gun trees don’t get prepped early, but I’d say I cut poison ivy away from 60-80 trees a year at least... just in case.
It only takes 1 or 2 minutes at the time, but can make a world of difference if you come back later in the year to sit that tree.


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Country said:
Haha...works great IF you do it! Woke up this morning with some on my face! Not sure where it even came from. Pretty sure this thread started it lol.
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Yeah, that's the trick. If I know I'm in an area that has it, Its cheap insurance to throw all the clothes in the wash and scrub the exposed skin. But sometimes I've made contact unaware; not good. Also, you gotta keep up on the scrubbing each time you touch any of your equipment that made contact: gear, boots etc. Once the oil gets on your hands, anything you touch gets it. the stuff transmits like the black plague.
 
I don't think the hairy roots have urishiol on the surface. I was hoping, anyway.
 
IkemanTX said:
This is one of the reasons I love scouting just after season closes. Any tree I consider a potential sit tree gets a gap cut out of the vines. By the time season comes around, those vines are dry as a bone. Obviously, run-n-gun trees don’t get prepped early, but I’d say I cut poison ivy away from 60-80 trees a year at least... just in case.
It only takes 1 or 2 minutes at the time, but can make a world of difference if you come back later in the year to sit that tree.
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What two distances from the ground do you cut a gap? We’ve got a metric crap ton of poison ivy and I never had any luck cutting the hairy vines off the tree and coming back later. Plus, I am very reluctant to touch year old dry vines.
 
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