how to protect yourself from ticks?

[GRAY GHOST]

hello everybody, its the inevitable question... tick season will soon be upon us, and ive tried just about everything, with varying degrees of success. how do you protect yourself from ticks? skin so soft works good for mosquitoes and mayflies, and so does off! but what about tick protection? hh,

 

[oddjobbob]

In our neck of the woods we use asorbine jr. for ticks, sand fleas, misquitoes, ticks and for the soreness.I have noticed when I lived up north that it was no good for fly's. Also the kids don't like it due to a burning sensation they say.Just my 2 pull tabs.

 

[jdstawker]

Years ago when the ear tags for flys came out all of us hands on the farms and ranches in NE Ok where I grew up put them on our boots to keep off the ticks and chiggers. The tags worked great except a bunch of us got sick. Sure glad it didn't cause any permenant damage.
Years ago when the ear tags for flys came out all of us hands on the farms and ranches in NE Ok where I grew up put them on our boots to keep off the ticks and chiggers. The tags worked great except a bunch of us got sick. Sure glad it didn't cause any permenant damage.

Years ago when the ear tags for flys came out all of us hands on the farms and ranches in NE Ok where I grew up put them on our boots to keep off the ticks and chiggers. The tags worked great except a bunch of us got sick. Sure glad it didn't cause any permenant damage.
Years ago when the ear tags for flys came out all of us hands on the farms and ranches in NE Ok where I grew up put them on our boots to keep off the ticks and chiggers. The tags worked great except a bunch of us got sick. Sure glad it didn't cause any permenant damage.
Years ago when the ear tags for flys came out all of us hands on the farms and ranches in NE Ok where I grew up put them on our boots to keep off the ticks and chiggers. The tags worked great except a bunch of us got sick. Sure glad it didn't cause any permenant damage.

 

[BH-LandStar]

I have used this stuff with success so far...

Permethrin Aerosol Spray
Odorless Permethrin Repels Ticks on Clothing

Sawyer Clothing Tick Repellent is an odorless, non-staining aerosol. Permethrin (the active ingredient in Tick Repellent) is a synthetic or man-made pyrethroid. Use this spray on your clothing to repel ticks that may try to attach themselves to you. Outdoor activities will many times carry you into tick infested areas. Your motion, breath, sweat and other factors will attract ticks and they will attach themselves to your clothing, in hopes of getting a blood meal.

Use Sawyer Insect Repellent Lotion or Maxi DEET on exposed skin and for extra protection, spray your clothing with this Permethrin tick repeller. Now packaged in larger 9 ounce aerosol can. Each can of Permethrin Aerosol Spray is $9.50, plus shipping.
Order Clothing Tick Repellent Permethrin spray.

HH,

BH-LandStar

 

[nugget]

Hi GRAY GHOST, no matter what you seem to do their always remains those few ticks who love the taste of any sort of repellant. I have found that if you spray your hat heaps, LOTS around your neck, smother your legs and arms and I mean smother them so they tend to drop off before they get too high on you. I have had up to 35 on me after prospecting trips out west. I look at it as part of the hazards of the job. HH regards Nugget.

 

[leesumm]

I live down here in west central Arkansas, ticks are a matter of fact here in the woods. Its not the big ticks that bother me its what we have down here called seed ticks. About the size of a pin head which itch more than a chigger and about the same size. I have tried using a bath of Epsom salt after being out and had some luck with that. Other wise havent had much luck keeping em off

 

[silversmith]

Lots of neat repellants are out there. Skin so soft works for about a half hour, then you hafta re-new it. The best thing I've found, came down the Internet a couple of years ago. Those paper-like things you throw in the dryer to make your clothes soft....Bounty I think, just stick one in your shirt pocket....and no bugs...all day long. I used to get literally eaten alive by gnats, mosquitoes, meat-eater bees and all kind of nasty little buggers, when I stopped to open gates on my way to mountain top repeater sites, but since I learned about these things, no more bug problems. Anyway give 'em a try. See ya, Ron.

 

[Boober61]

Hey you can do like Robert Roy does and carry around that Stun Gun and Zap them there puppies off !!!!!
Really my sister sell AVON and say the skin so soft works with other blood suckers so should work with Ticks.
Someone needs to create a mini taizer / stun gun eeh Robert Roy?