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I went out turkey hunting on Saturday morning for a few hours and picked off over a dozen ticks afterwards and continued to find 6 more in my hunting clothes tote this week. I had been out 3 times the week before with 0 ticks.

I've got a bad feeling that the ticks are thriving this year. I had a friend contract Lyme disease last year and it has scared the $h!t outta me. I've done a fair bit of reading on repellants/insecticides and decided to buy some permethrin to spray on my clothes that I'll be wearing in the woods and tall grass.

What is your favorite tick repellant and/or tick killer?

On a similar note, and I know this has been debated on here before, what is your preferred method of preventing/killing ticks on your dogs?

Any old wives' tales that have worked for you?
 
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Took a couple daughters out Saturday for some shed hunting. We had no ticks, but the dog had 6 we later found checking her over. So they are out! I believe Frontline for dog, or something similar and prob deep woods off for us.
 

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Put a tick collar on every limb and realize ticks thrive every spring.. After picking over 40 of the rat bastards off while spring turkey decoying moons ago I realized I'd rather be shore fishing, chasing snows, or playing softball.
 

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permethrin is absolutely the most effective option for humans and clothing in my opinion.
 


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My dog was recently diagnosed with anaplasmosis which is similar to lymes and also from deer ticks. His vet recommended doing 2 treatments per month (one given at the first of the month one in the middle); one topical like a frontline and one edible like Nextgard. Hope it helps but has yet to be tried.
 

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I use deep woods OFF and it seems to keep them away pretty good. For the dogs I give them a generic drop for half the $ of what Frontline charges, and they seem to stay tick free for a month. I try to only give them 2 drops a year, sometimes 3, depending on how long of spring we have. Should get by with 2 this year, just gave it to them last Friday.

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Put a tick collar on every limb and realize ticks thrive every spring.. After picking over 40 of the rat bastards off while spring turkey decoying moons ago I realized I'd rather be shore fishing, chasing snows, or playing softball.

BTW FWIW
I've never heard of a tick collar working.
 

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Living where I do I was surprised to have waited until yesterday to pick up my first tick.

The dog got frontline applied yesterday as well.

Permethrin is a great way to keep the little buggers at bay, I'll spray my jeans if I'm working in the tall grass. I should just whip up a big batch and spray the damn grass where I'll be working.
 

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So is there anything other than Deep Woods off that a guy could use to fend off those ticks? In the past I have heard of guys that use pet collars around the ankles, I've heard rubbing Bounce wipes on clothing, etc....
 


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Pruned some trees this morning and picked 5 off me and one off the dog. Beard and longer hair is coming off this afternoon. Its Q-ball time.
 

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This is 100% the reason why I gave up on spring turkey hunting. I walked through a wooded bottom last year and looked down to see hundreds crawling up my pant legs. Worst thing I have seen in my life. Things are absolutely good for nothing.
 

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they don't bother me - they used to something fierce when I was younger

but morel mushrooming exposed me to several trillion and now I'm cured

sure - I probably have numerous debilitating diseases - but I'm not creeped out by them at all anymore
 


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Agreed. Actually a rare disease in ND... for now.

Reported Cases of Lyme Disease — United States, 2017

https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/datasurveillance/maps-recent.html

2017LymeCropped.jpg
 
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I've used Sawyer Tick Spray on my clothes with good results. My tick season jeans will repell ticks for a couple months with one application. This year for the dog it will be a Seresto Tick Collar instead of Frontline. A few years back we were in the Turtle Mountains and picked up deer ticks there. I didn't know they were that far west.
 


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