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Old 09-10-2006 | 10:22 AM
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[:@][:@][:@]went out today to attach a bow hook and a pull up string
to one of my sons ladder stands that i had forgot to bring with me when i placed the stand two weeks ago when the temps was in the 50s in the mornings, no tics then. now its in the 80s again. i had run out of permonone spray and something told me not to go but i did anyway.
came home and noticed my pants looked like they were alive. PANIC ATTAC!!!!! took a bleach and water shower to rid them. any one else have them as bad as we do in southern Indiana?? they seem to favor the old coal mine ground spoilbanks.
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Old 09-10-2006 | 10:30 AM
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Are you sure it wasn't chiggers? I have had several ticks on me but the way you describe it was hundreds. Better spray your vehicle down if it was.
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Old 09-10-2006 | 10:32 AM
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Chiggers could be that too.
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Old 09-10-2006 | 10:49 AM
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If yuo got any dug in spread some tobbasco sauce on em...thell back out in ab 30-45 seconds..
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Old 09-10-2006 | 10:54 AM
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For sure thats a very good tip!!
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Old 09-10-2006 | 10:56 AM
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just wanted to let you know that my husband got lymes when he got into a nest of deer ticks...he had hundreds of them on him...and it's an evil evil disease if gone untreated....just be careful...i wouldn't wish it on anyone.
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Old 09-10-2006 | 11:02 AM
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The reason for the tobbasco is they pull there heads out themselves and dont have as much of a chance for infection..if you just pull them usually there heads will stay in which could be bad
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Old 09-10-2006 | 11:30 AM
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Ya that's bummer.. I had a similar situation and I'm from So. IL.. I found a couple tics on me but I looked at my legs and they also seemed to be alive..lol But in my case there were hundreds of tiny red chiggers. I brushed them all off and got rid of the few tics... Just something we have to deal with in our necks of the woods..
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Old 09-10-2006 | 03:00 PM
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we have lots of chiggers and ticks here in oklahoma I hate them,,they seem worse in the spring not as bad in the fall...something a bow hunter has to put up with I guess
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Old 09-10-2006 | 03:29 PM
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Darn, that sucks. My family's dog was acting funny so we took him to tha vet. they said it could be lymes disease. theyre doing some tests to see for sure.
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