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Look on the bright side:
Now you have a good excuse to "check your GF for Ticks", like in Brad Paisley's song... And Vice versa.:)

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welcome to the world of seed ticks :DWe are infested with them in my area. Be prepared for some major itching, the bite is x2 worse than a dog tic bite. As stated permonone is the way to go, just dont use it on your skin, clothes only. I had around 300-500 stuck on me years ago [X(]after hanging a stand in July. The bites actually made my blood pressure get all screwed up ( i never have bad blood pressure) I was waking up with bloody sheets from the nite time itching. A trip to the doc for some high power antibotics and an anti itch shot was the cure. good luck and stay out of them little b@$+#*^$ :D

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The ones that you removed and the head broke off inside your skin will continue to itch for about 2-3 wks. I spray down throughout most of the hunting season too. A good warm spell even in the late fall and they will be active again. They crawl in the weirdest places, check your ears etc.
I hate them little buggers![:@]Sell the car/truck and post a pic of the ticks on yourgirlfriend!:DKidding! No I'm not, Yes I am, No I'm not. Sorry my multiple personalities are taking over!:)

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Now I'm itching![:@]

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Too Funny!:D

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well i think i got most of them. cant find anymore on me, but now i do ich some. i got the meds so i cant get lime.

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Get one of those sticky lint rollers and go over your truck seats, carpet, etc. They stick to that. Roll yourself next time you get out of the woods too. Permanone is definitely the way to go, that stuff works. I'm sitting here in my office reading this and I'm getting all itchy thinkin about it.When I get out of here, I'm planning to go hang a stand, and I haven't sprayed down... I'm gonna be tick paranoid. I hate those little buggers!

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Just curious but how come you created another user name?

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anyone ever use the bugskinz underwear from cabelas..?I was thinking of trying it...

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I'm thinking that in the future you won't have to ask the GF forsome time in the woods alone.

Fill the tub with very hot water, a gererous dose of bleach and take a good long soak. You'll survive.

I hope you and the GF are at the "very intimate" stage of your relationship because no matter what you do now you and she are probably going to need each others help ;). You may think you got them allbut a few days/weeks from now you more than likely will discoverone or morewhere it is impossible for you to see it or get ahold of itto remove it without assistance.

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This is creeping me out and making me laugh at the same time. My gal pal just sent me that Brad Paisley song a couple days ago. I hate ticks!! Glad we don't have them up here... yet.

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ducsauce - i created another b/c # 2 is my work computer, which is where i type 99% of my posts. but i was home the other night and wanted to post, but forgot my password. i am automatically logged in at work so i dont even remember my PW anymore. i just wanted to create a name that was similar - i just wanted to post at home b/c i was bored and didnt want to wait til work next day. thats all

i vaccuumed out my car, but i think ill try to lint roller as well. where can i buy that permonone stuff from? dicks or bass pro?

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Get the permanone from Walmart. Its called Repel with Permanone. The stuff is really permathrin, so any tick repellant with permathrin will do. The stuff runs like 5 bucks a can.

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Problem: itching and little creepy, crawly things

Solution: shave every inch of your body, and your significant other's as well. Oil liberally...have fun!

Just a suggestion. [8D]

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honestly i think i would rather have the itchies than shave everything lol

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Women like a clean-shaven man.;)

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Full body wax [:-]??

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lol

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How did you make out with the ticks??

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well bud, i got literally hundreds of little red bit marks all over me. but i got some antibiotics just in case one of those lill buggers has the lime. thanks for asking tho, im itching a little but most of it has passed over. lol u should see how many little bites i have on me, hundreds lol. ill live tho. thanks for asking bud

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I believe you. I have been lucky enough not to get infested with them. A funny thing and this is the second time I have heard this. A guy I know went into the woods with his son and daughter. Him and his daughter were wearing shorts. His son wore jeans. His son was the only one to get infested with them. I have heard this before too.

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those things are horrible. they are all over the place in ne maryland. the best thing i found besides shaving about 700 of those things off was to get duct tape and press and rip. they came off 50 at a time. just rip with the hair grain and not against. last year i thought i got all of them off with duct tape so i decided to jump in the shower. i took off my britches only to find we were touching heads ...AHHHH! (that did not receive duct tape)[&:]good luck.

try wearing tight under armor under your pants next time. it seems they cant make it through it.

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gogo -lol that is where i got them, at elk neck state park. lol i told my buddy about it, and this wekeend he went to retrieve my game cam, i warned him to wear pants, well he didnt listen. when we came out he had hudreds on him. lol, funny thing is he didnt have extra clothes, so i made him strip to his boxers and put his invested clothes in a bag i brought. so he was riding all the way home in jus his boxer shorts, i told him it would be funny if i got pulled over on the way home, lol, i wander how we could explain that to the officer lol. he got a chuckle out of that, we would probably get arrested for indecent exposure (or atleast him lol). but yea, do you guys know when they die off? sept 15 is the opener and i was wandering how many weeks ill have to fight with them for deer space in the woodsl ol. atleast ill be in a tree

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also gogo, do u hunt in NE? anywhere around elk neck? this is my first year and i was planning to hunt the opener there, but have heard some bad things in the past few days..any thoughts? if not its cool just thought i would take a stab at it since u said u are familiar with those parts

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geter, i hunt elk neck as well. i saw two nice deer taken from the forest last year. both during rifle. two respectible 8s. Carter... forget about it. ticks galore, anywhere u walk that is grass you ll be covered. i was covered monday walking there. i did get a doe out of there last year.last year there was a very respectible 10 point walking around the community but it was taken by a hunter hunting the strip of woods bw turkey point and the community there.
however. just be ready to pick ticks, chiggers, and more ticks. these places are nasty infested.

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by the way i go to university of delaware and with my schedule i usually hunt about 4days a week if not more. maybe we'll see each other out there. green ranger from FL ..thats me

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i wonder if its elk neck, or really anywhere in MD early in the season. i mean, why would they be just there ya know? but yea, thats where i was at carter, thats the only huntable place on opening day. now im not sure where i want to hunt. i mean the first few weeks i really only want some meet, doesnt need to be bucks ya know, but if there are only a few running around, why waste my time. i need to find some private land to lease or hunt lol, but that has been a lost cause. i have never hunted the forest, just went to the shooting range there. i mean if there are plentiful deer ,i can deal with ticks and all, but if there are other places with same amount of deer, and less devil-buds, maybe i should try elsewhere ya know. i mean i hunted there (carter) in the very late part of last season and saw alllott of sign, tracks, poop, scrapes, alot, but never saw any bucks (saw 1 doe but was too far to shoot). i saw her crossing right in front of the trail when you start to walk down the long trail on carter. now im not sure what to do, and with opening day approaching, i need to get it together. i got my deer cam there and may check tomarrow, but i duhnno now. either way, thanks for the info bud

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hey im leaving work now but i will finish this convo tomarrow, but yea i go to towson university and dont have class until 2pm on tues-thurs, so i should be there quite alot on those two days during the morning and of course saturdays. quick question, im buying my license tomarrow, and of course i need to sign up for carter if im gonna hunt there, do you know how fast it fills up for the opener? it might already be filled with my luck lol, i need to get up there and register ASAP. from your experience, how fast does the opener fill, i think theres only like 8 hunters allowed per day, but i couldbe wrong

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I opened a zipped bag from about 5 days before with my shoes in it and a big ole tick came out.

Right now I have poison ivy and chiggers from last weekend. I was working in the woods in La.
I prefer both of those to ticks. I'm almost immune to poison ivy since its on every tree in our woods
and chiggers don't carry brain eating diseases.

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me and my hunting buddy where hanging stands andgot into a nest of them, worst thing that has very happened to me with ticks, i had so many on me around my ankles and lower legs,i had to shave my legs to get rid of them all, then the itching after that,man, i never go in the wood to hang a stand or get my cameras with out sprying down, my buddie had them real bad to but the worst was hehad 5 in his eyes, that was bad
i learned my leason, my buddie still gets them and dont spray down
Lenny

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they're nasty....[8D]

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geter, my buddy signed me in today bci had morning classes. he said he wsa there at 7am and no one showed up while he was there. u may still be in luck. but it doesnt fill up to quick... the other parts however.... camp overnight if u want opening day at any of them... we arre bringing beer, venison and a grill. need to get there at probably 6pm the day before. there were only 19 people registered thus far at the ranger station monday. there were around 26 last year at this time. i think u may still be okay.... once u get ur license call the rnager station to sign in. (im not sure if u have get your car pass first before your allowed to sign up or not) good luck

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I caught something like that one time when I was in the navy ....only way to get rid of them is to go to a movie ...when the movie starts tell them to hold your seat while you go get pop corn :D


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geterdun,

I'm glad to hear you took precautions against lyme disease. Two friends of mine both contracted lyme disease this summer and they both live in suburban Washington DC!!! Lyme disease is a very real and potent threat to many on the East Coast. What kind of preventative medicine did the Doctor give you in reference to Lyme Disease? I did not think there was one. Was it pills? or a shot? If I knew of one I would definately take it ( although it may just be for short term scenarios like yours). Lyme Diseaseis seriously debilitating in the Short term and can be chronically debilitating depending on several factors.

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hey guys, this is me (geterdun2) just at my home using my alternate username.

gogo - for the other parts of the park, they dont open until later in the year right? october i think? carter is the only property open on sept 15, the actual MD opener right? yea i tried to register for a cabin for the 14th and 15th, but the big ones were already taken. im not sure about the smaller ones, i will have to check, you know they are the same prices? lol i dont see why anyone would get a little one over the big one. do i need to physically go there? or can i do it over the phone? im going to need to go there anyway to check the cam in the next day or so, maybe tomarow, so i can do it then but i need to get my license first, so i might do it all tomarrow. but for the actual opener, you think theres still some space lefT? im less worried about registering for the other parts right now as i am for the opener, i would like to ensure myself a spot there. i think i DEF will call them tomarrow to make sure there are openings, and then go to dicks and get my tags and then ride down there, check the cam and register for the opener. i hope its not already taken. yea, i was going to rent a mini cabin and bring 3-4 friends with me (they dont hunt, just camp) with some beer and a grill also, but with hotdogs since my venision has run out since last year - I NEED SOME MORE lol. question: do you think i can get the car pass before i actually sign up - this way i can get it tomarrow and in case i dont have time to get my license, get it this weekend and then call in my name and sign up. i beleive they give me a specific hunter "number" right?

so, im still wandering if there is a plentiful amount of deer there? i have heard good things like i said, but i also heard that there arent any real big deer around. i guess it doesnt matter since im just going for some meat ya know. but yea bud, when i hunt ill let ya know and maybe we can meet up after a hunt or something one morning.

hillbilly - it was a pill, a antibiotic, i think it was caled doxi-something, ill get the exact name tomarrow for ya. yea i just want to be sure i dont get it, i heard its extremely bad to get, like an extreme flu.

thanks alot guys, im going to go play some playstation (alaskan adventure [8D]), ill check back in a little bit.

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lol that **** is suppose to be Dick's Sporting goods, but i guess the comp. doesnt see it like that lol

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You probably got Doxicyclene. That's a pretty effective and versatile antibiotic.

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just bought a bug skinz suit from cabelas about a month or so have been in the woods about 4 times now & not a single bite from a seed tick regular deer tick or any chiggars so far so good. il be wearing this suit on opening day sept 15th for sure

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i know what you meansame thing happened to me and my girlfriend excpt they were chiggers

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My wife got Lyme disease this summer. The drug is Doxycycline. She had a fever for a week but the doctor wouldn't give her anything until the blood test came back. I finally put her on pennicillin after day 3 and the fever broke. The symptoms can come back at any time,it can remain dormant in your body.
You get it from the deer ticks (the tiny pin head ones) not from the Brown dog ticks (much larger and easily seen). Contrary to popular belief the little ones aren't baby ones,with a magnifying glass they look like minature ticks.