Dirt slinger
Member
About a month ago I was out on a hunt and found rather quickly that the ticks were already out, so I beat it back to the truck and went to a nice mowed park. 
On the way home I was thinking about it and decided to take some steps to try to keep the ticks, chiggers and skeeters from being a problem. What I came up with worked, but it would be somewhat uncomfortable when it gets real warm out. I used to do something like this when squirrel hunting years ago. First, I got a pair of socks and sprayed them with Deep Woods Off insect repellant, put on the socks, then put on my thin sweat pants with the elastic gathers at the bottom that most all sweats have, sprayed them down, then my oldest pair of tennis shoes and heavily sprayed them, then sprayed a tee shirt and put it on tucking it into my sweats so as to give the bugs no way in. After that just lightly sprayed exposed skin and hit the woods in the thickest, nastiest known to be tick infested spot I know of. Spent about 2 hours out there and never found a bug of any kind on me, then or when I got home, and in the case of chiggers, its been several days and no bites. The chiggers REALLY love the tight areas where your socks and shoes are thats why I gave that a good dousing of spray. Had I just gone out there without the spray I know my ankles would be raw from scratchin by now. 
Anyway, I know many give up on the brushy areas in the summer, but ya dont have to. 
H.H.
Ken.
On the way home I was thinking about it and decided to take some steps to try to keep the ticks, chiggers and skeeters from being a problem. What I came up with worked, but it would be somewhat uncomfortable when it gets real warm out. I used to do something like this when squirrel hunting years ago. First, I got a pair of socks and sprayed them with Deep Woods Off insect repellant, put on the socks, then put on my thin sweat pants with the elastic gathers at the bottom that most all sweats have, sprayed them down, then my oldest pair of tennis shoes and heavily sprayed them, then sprayed a tee shirt and put it on tucking it into my sweats so as to give the bugs no way in. After that just lightly sprayed exposed skin and hit the woods in the thickest, nastiest known to be tick infested spot I know of. Spent about 2 hours out there and never found a bug of any kind on me, then or when I got home, and in the case of chiggers, its been several days and no bites. The chiggers REALLY love the tight areas where your socks and shoes are thats why I gave that a good dousing of spray. Had I just gone out there without the spray I know my ankles would be raw from scratchin by now. Anyway, I know many give up on the brushy areas in the summer, but ya dont have to. H.H.Ken.
