Yep Im with Shultzy and MNPurple on this one. Every deer I shot in the last few years had ticks on them. Mostly deer ticks also. My brother in law had lymes disease, my best man in my wedding, aneighbor to us at hunt camp. Just to think of a few. It is more comon than most think. At least up this way. I am talking about deer killed in MN in November also.