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I know, I know not much meat on them why hunt them......

Seriously though, I was in my turkey blind for less than 5 minutes when I felt a little bugger crawl on my hand. I dont know (although I have an idea) where they are all coming from. I have been on the same property for over 16 years and it seems I have only have had tick problems in the last 8-9 years.

Pesky little things when they start jumping around your living room.

anyway I use bug repelent with DEET and it seems to work. Anyone else in Ontario seeing a tick infestation?????
 
cdngunner said:
I'm hoping they are wood ticks and not deer ticks
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Yep, you do NOT want to get lyme disease. A couple members of my family have had it and it is a SOB to get PROPERLY treated in Ontario, never mind even getting a proper diagnosis. (on antibiotics for almost a year)

As for ticks, if you are in the US, pick up a can of permethrine. It is an insecticide that you spray/soak into your cloths, and it stays there for up to 6 washings.

It kills ticks that come into contact with it (and it is also good for mosquitoes and other insects)

Permethrine is similar to a compound found in chrysanthemum flowers, but is not approved for use in Canada (except if you have a pesticide license and it is used on crops). Mainly because it is not proprietary and no company wants to spend the money to get it approved, just so everyone else can sell it.

Canadian Forces uses it on all their cloths when outside of Canada, but they have to turn in those cloths when back in Canada because it is not approved for use here. :rolleyes:

http://www.forces.gc.ca/health-sante/pub/rpt/apollo/permethrin-eng.asp
 
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Big Game said:
To truly appreciate ticks you need to hunt bears in Eastern Manitoba in the spring.
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:agree:
I try not to enter the bush in MB during the summer months, they love me. I'll pick up like 10 and my friends will have none on them, same goes for skeeters. I've been meaning to pick up some permethrin for a while now
 
I've never seen any ticks in my area of Ontario. Lots of the buggers in southern Saskatchewan though! So you just keep your ticks down in the Niagara region. :p
 
In Saskatchewan, when I was young, there were no ticks in the north where I was, except on moose...

I move south and ticks all over, but the season for them is only a month or so, then they are gone. The only hunting season with ticks is spring bear.

I thought the season was the same everywhere, Not so?
 
SandRoad said:
Yep, you do NOT want to get lyme disease. A couple members of my family have had it and it is a SOB to get PROPERLY treated in Ontario, never mind even getting a proper diagnosis. (on antibiotics for almost a year)

As for ticks, if you are in the US, pick up a can of permethrine. It is an insecticide that you spray/soak into your cloths, and it stays there for up to 6 washings.

It kills ticks that come into contact with it (and it is also good for mosquitoes and other insects)

Permethrine is similar to a compound found in chrysanthemum flowers, but is not approved for use in Canada (except if you have a pesticide license and it is used on crops). Mainly because it is not proprietary and no company wants to spend the money to get it approved, just so everyone else can sell it.

Canadian Forces uses it on all their cloths when outside of Canada, but they have to turn in those cloths when back in Canada because it is not approved for use here. :rolleyes:

http://www.forces.gc.ca/health-sante/pub/rpt/apollo/permethrin-eng.asp
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it can be ordered into Canada from the USA however, look for a company called REI Outdoors...
 
Meanee00 said:
:agree:
I try not to enter the bush in MB during the summer months, they love me. I'll pick up like 10 and my friends will have none on them, same goes for skeeters. I've been meaning to pick up some permethrin for a while now
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i dont find there that bad.. when i go into the bush (playing paint ball) i maybe get 1 maybe 2 a day , they dont bug me.

well when you find them on your nuts well that drives me nutz
 
I live in Eastern MB, and when I cut the bush trails w/in my property in early summer, it's nothing to pick 150 + off me in a couple of hours on the riding mower. My personal record is 197. Ironically enough... my wife can go out and do the same route and get 3 or 4. Don't know why they like me so much. Luckily I can feel them and pick em off before they dig in (usually) A friend of a friend is doing his thesis on wood ticks, so I went for a walkabout last summer, and in less than an hour, I completely filled a film container with the ones I picked off me.
 
starpuss said:
i dont find there that bad.. when i go into the bush (playing paint ball) i maybe get 1 maybe 2 a day , they dont bug me.

well when you find them on your nuts well that drives me nutz
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I was driving home after a day of target shooting out in the bush and I could feel one of those buggers comeing up my thigh and around to my nuts. I was pinching at my pants as best I could, but there was no stopping the bugger. I had to pull over and drop my drawers at the side of the trans canada.
 
my littel girl was out deer hunting with me last fall and when we got home she went to the washroom to wash up for supper well she let out a scream i jumbed out of my skin and thought the world was coming to an end when she was washing her neck she had a spot that would not rub off well when she seen what it was look out scared the bejezz out of me and the wife .i did get a holed of it and pull it off head and all .but that is the first one i have seen here in southern ont DUTCH
 
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