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Timberghozt
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Posted: 29 April 2006 11:38 PM |
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...How the hell do you keep them little sum bitches off of ya.I am covered in chigger bites.It always happens this time of year.I`ve tried dog tick collars on my boots,sulfur dust on my boots..etc..I hate them damned things and they hurt like hell..
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dakotasin
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Posted: 30 April 2006 02:51 AM |
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before i go on a prairie dog shoot, i douse myself liberally w/ off! spray.
can't say fer sure fer sure how effective it is... but, the only time i ever got chiggers was the one time i didn't hose that stuff on me. i can also tell you that that was one of the most miserable times in recent history for me. and there is simply no relief. i tried everything i could think of...
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Charley
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Posted: 30 April 2006 03:46 AM |
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Any repellant with DEET in it will work fine for chiggers. Some of the permethrin based killer/repellants will work, too. I don't consider applying a pesticide like permethrin to my skin or clothes a particularly smart thing to do, though. Personally, I prefer the DEET.
Important to shower and wash very thouroughly after possible exposure to chiggers.
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Timberghozt
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Posted: 30 April 2006 01:27 PM |
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I will try the OFF stuff.It is mandatory for fishing at Taivoli on the Guadalupe river.My goodness I have never seen mosquitoes like that place has. Even the orange groves in south Florida at night weren`t as bad as Taivoli is....
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TwoBeards
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Posted: 30 April 2006 03:13 PM |
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| You all are gonna think Im nuts and you may be right but I grew up in Kansas chigger capitol and the only thing that worked for me was bathing with the original scent Irish spring soap, Dont have chiggers here but man we got the ticks bad and as long as I bath with Irish spring and wash the dog with it we dont have ticks bothering us. It has to be the green bar with original scent the new scented blue bars dont work. Also used to have a mouse problem in our dresser drawers but I cut up a bar of Irish spring soap the green stuff and put big slivers in our dresser drawers and we no longer have our mouse problems. The only thing Is I hate the smell of that stuff but it works so I use it. Jimmy
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Posted: 30 April 2006 03:42 PM |
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For over 40 years I have been using Dial Gold bath soap and for that length of time I have had very few chiggers, my wife did not believe me, but after we went out and she came back eat alive and I only had a few, she finally gave up her Camay and she is now as chigger proof as I am.
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sdb777
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Posted: 8 December 2007 12:43 AM |
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It's a thread from the past, but I thought it deserves to be brought back to the top of the list. Anyone that has ever encounter a couple hundred bites from these nearly invisible terrorists, needs to know who to prevent, and in the event you didn't prepare ahead of time. The way to reduce the amount of pain!
If I'm working a food plot in the warmer weather, I hose myself down with enough OFF Deep Woods to probably give myself some kind of skin cancer(it's better then what chiggers do).
Even a few will make their way through all the defenses, so what to use? Chigger Relief gets the call, but you'll still be wanting to itch the areas...Don't do it! You will suffer longer due to the infections!
Here's the link to get this wonder stuff....it works for me and I'd recommend it for anyone! http://www.chemcraft.net/chigger.html
Scott (chigger bite!) B
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The_Mountaineer
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Posted: 11 December 2007 06:38 PM |
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| 100% DEET seems to work the best.
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Charley
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Posted: 11 December 2007 10:35 PM |
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Just remember, before hosing yourself or your kids down continously with DEET, there have a been a couple of fatal exposures documented. The one case I recall was a year or two back in California. Idiot parents ignored the label and blasted their young daughter with high doses of DEET. As we professionals say, "OPPS!"
There is a difference between a theraputic dose and a harmful dose.
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woodsman777
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Posted: 30 May 2008 01:33 PM |
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lived in east Texas for a while and we would put two cotton socks together (one inside the other)
get sulfur powder fill the bag and then dust our selves with this set up especially ankles wrists shirt collar ect.(any point of entry, or exposed skin arms legs ect)
might be worth a try ,no harmful chemicals , no bad smell ,dose not spook the wildlife
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SCSlim
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Posted: 31 May 2008 05:32 AM |
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I think the politically correct term for them little critters is "Insect Americans". I hear tell they don't like "the C word".
Don't know much about chiggers, except when I lived in Lithonia, GA for a while, my young cousin asked an interesting philosophical question about their name.
I know that the skeeters out here don't like the old-style GI camo grease paint. They'll land on it but then take right off again without biting. Probably plugs up their snouts, or else they don't like shaking it off their feet after they step in it.
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