stevethebreeze
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What a great thread. Very informative. You guys are awesome!
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That time again, Permethrin!
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Sawyer will later up to 6 weeks or 6 washings. I spray my clothes every 6 weeks . Sawyer doesn't last year to year.That's what I do anyway and it works great on ticks.
Been wearing Elimitick here in central FL for years now & been tick free
It works great
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If you buy the 10% concentrated stuff (Martin’s, for example), you need to dilute it substantially to get into the appropriate range of 0.5%, plus or minus a little. If you mix 1 oz. of 10% permethrin and 19 oz. of water, that yields a solution that’s right at 0.5%. Add a touch more permethrin to get a higher concentration; add more water to have a lower concentration. Easiest way to do it is to pour 1 to 1.25 oz. of the concentrated permethrin (comes with a little measuring cap) into whatever spray bottle you plan to use. Add 18 to 19 oz. of water. Seal it up tight, shake (or stir), and you’re all set.
I use the same concentrate and have it figured out to be 6oz per gallon. I mix mine up in a gallon milk jug so it’s real easy. Plenty enough for an entire season.
Jason Wandling
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I was shooting my bow a few days ago and got covered in seed ticks. I went home and showered, applied bug spray and after an hour showered again. I have bites up both legs and on my arms. I forgot to spray before I left. 
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You're 64 oz. short of a full gallon....
Oooops! Good catch. What a dummy!
Got the soak done. Ready for the season. 
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had a tick on me today. hadn't sprayed down yet. But will before I get back out.
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We had one on one of our dogs about a month ago which is the earliest I've ever seen 'em. It was a nice day out but there was still snow on the ground.
BuckTown
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Just sprayed my turkey and scouting gear down last week. Will be the first time I’ve ever used it, looking forward to great results/fewer tick bites.
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I started using this stuff last year for the first time because of this thread and let me tell you it works, I got permission to hunt a lucrative piece of ground late last season because the owner got lyme and wants deer dead, that area has a nasty tick problem so I sprayed up hard and had zero issues, they seem to get worse here every year.
Have had run ins with ticks my entire turkey and deer hunting life. Ticks during turkey season tend to run at least 15x that of one's I encountered deer hunting.
In the previous 35+ years of deer and turkey hunting could count on one hand how many tics I ever removed from myself that were actually embedded. I attribute this success rate to absolutely and meticulously inspecting myself and my cloths every single time after every hunt
Had found some but not a great number of them crawling on me in the past but only 2-3 ever were embedded and easily removed. And I averaged 15 days a year turkey hunting in two states for over 30 years.
Then two years ago while at a ranger station waiting to partisapate in a turkey standby draw with 11 other hunters came to find out four had contracted Lyme's disease during last turkey season and needed antibiotics to get well again.
Last year was checking some public ground in Central Indiana and walked less than 300 yards round trip through some very very thick waste high brush and grass to try to get eyes on a Tom gobbling like mad and when I got back to my truck noticed a tick crawling on my arm. Right then right there started checking found 7 more on my arms, chest and legs
Without care or concerns for on lookers instantly disrobed down to just my boxers and found no less than 32 more tics on my cloths and 7 more on my body.
To say I was shocked beyond measure is a understatement immeasurable in proportion
In just one under 300 yard walk I had more tics on me than after having spent more than 400 days turkey hunting and hundreds of other days or evenings scouting or roosting birds. And I'm not even including deer hunting and the tics that we found after they dropped of dead deer in the back of our trucks.
Lastly I rescued and adopted two dogs that got abandoned in the parking lot of a place I was about to go shopping in that were also infested with tics, fleas and and reaked having very recently sprayed by a skunk . Had them both tested and thankfully they didn't have full blown Lyme's disease they did test positive so a bout of antibiotics they both got.
Best dogs any man could ever want. My family loves them dearly and I can't even rough house with my boys without the dogs jumping to defend them from me.
I will NEVER go turkey hunting or scouting again without some form of anti-tic spray on my clothing.
I am absolutely certain you either use some form of anti tic spray and still check very inch of your body or you WILL get Lyme's disease
In the previous 35+ years of deer and turkey hunting could count on one hand how many tics I ever removed from myself that were actually embedded. I attribute this success rate to absolutely and meticulously inspecting myself and my cloths every single time after every hunt
Had found some but not a great number of them crawling on me in the past but only 2-3 ever were embedded and easily removed. And I averaged 15 days a year turkey hunting in two states for over 30 years.
Then two years ago while at a ranger station waiting to partisapate in a turkey standby draw with 11 other hunters came to find out four had contracted Lyme's disease during last turkey season and needed antibiotics to get well again.
Last year was checking some public ground in Central Indiana and walked less than 300 yards round trip through some very very thick waste high brush and grass to try to get eyes on a Tom gobbling like mad and when I got back to my truck noticed a tick crawling on my arm. Right then right there started checking found 7 more on my arms, chest and legs
Without care or concerns for on lookers instantly disrobed down to just my boxers and found no less than 32 more tics on my cloths and 7 more on my body.
To say I was shocked beyond measure is a understatement immeasurable in proportion
In just one under 300 yard walk I had more tics on me than after having spent more than 400 days turkey hunting and hundreds of other days or evenings scouting or roosting birds. And I'm not even including deer hunting and the tics that we found after they dropped of dead deer in the back of our trucks.
Lastly I rescued and adopted two dogs that got abandoned in the parking lot of a place I was about to go shopping in that were also infested with tics, fleas and and reaked having very recently sprayed by a skunk . Had them both tested and thankfully they didn't have full blown Lyme's disease they did test positive so a bout of antibiotics they both got.
Best dogs any man could ever want. My family loves them dearly and I can't even rough house with my boys without the dogs jumping to defend them from me.
I will NEVER go turkey hunting or scouting again without some form of anti-tic spray on my clothing.
I am absolutely certain you either use some form of anti tic spray and still check very inch of your body or you WILL get Lyme's disease