Time to spray your gear with Permethrin

[Five Seasons]

Just a friendly reminder as we near 1 week to go, spray the outside of all your turkey gear, pants, jackets, boots and socks and let the stinky bastards hang for a week in your garage. 

I've been spraying for the last 5 or 6 years now and I've been tick free ever since!

https://sawyer.com/products/permethrin-insect-repellent-treatment/

[landtracdeerhunter]

Ticks are already bad this year.  Lyme Disease little bastards!

[WNY_Whitetailer]

That's a good idea. We have all of the Scouts in our troop spray all of their clothing and footwear with Permethrin prior to attending summer camp. Never had an issue with ticks.

 

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[loworange88]

I had one on me the other day...caught him just as he was latching on.  I will be spraying my/kids gear with permethrin.

[Robhuntandfish]

i have this on my to do list for the day before season.  Not worried about the smell like for deer hunting.  

[Chromeslayer]

If you guys wanna save some money look into buying Martins 10% permethrin and dillute it down to whatever % you want.. i mix my own at 1% .. a 32oz bottle of Martins 10% will cost ya $20-22 and make you over 4gallons of .05% mix

[BizCT]

This stuff works wonders. I had many a days of double digit ticks on warm hunting days. Started using this a few years ago and if i find one on my clothes it's dead. I'm spraying my turkey hunting clothes saturday outside.

[Five Seasons]

25 minutes ago, Robhuntandfish said:

i have this on my to do list for the day before season.  Not worried about the smell like for deer hunting.  

i do think they recommend letting it dry though, not just for smell, but part of the process? can't remember for sure.

[GreeneHunter]

1 hour ago, Belo said:

Just a friendly reminder as we near 1 week to go, spray the outside of all your turkey gear, pants, jackets, boots and socks and let the stinky bastards hang for a week in your garage. 

I've been spraying for the last 5 or 6 years now and I've been tick free ever since!

https://sawyer.com/products/permethrin-insect-repellent-treatment/

I fully agree …. I've used Permethrin for 4 or 5 years now and have never had a Tick on my , my hunting buddy does not use it and we pick Tick's off him after every outing ! Some people never learn !

[Robhuntandfish]

47 minutes ago, Belo said:

i do think they recommend letting it dry though, not just for smell, but part of the process? can't remember for sure.

they do but it only takes 2-4 hours to dry.  No sense in spraying a week ahead and shorten the effectiveness.  But good reminder. I am not afraid of bears, wolves, yotes or Squatches in the woods- but ticks i sure am! 

[Water Rat]

10 minutes ago, Robhuntandfish said:

they do but it only takes 2-4 hours to dry.  No sense in spraying a week ahead and shorten the effectiveness.  But good reminder. I am not afraid of bears, wolves, yotes or Squatches in the woods- but ticks i sure am! 

Well said !

[Jeremy K]

I found one dead one on my sock after a walk in the woods , i  wear the same pants and t shirt in the woods that are sprayed .

[reeltime]

I make my own solution from happy jack kenel dip II.
Empty my vest all the pockets on my turkey clothes and then mix up 3 gallons of solution in a 5 gallon bucket.
Wear rubber gloves and completely saturate everything and wring out all the excess back into the bucket. Then hang them to dry

The leftover solution gets strained thru a paint filter into spray bottles to be used to mist my clothes down prior to a hunt and or misting down the dog before we go to the woods.
I hunt some heavily tick infested areas in both NY and pa and have never had a tick on me since using the happy jack.


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[crappyice]

I make my own solution from happy jack kenel dip II.
Empty my vest all the pockets on my turkey clothes and then mix up 3 gallons of solution in a 5 gallon bucket.
Wear rubber gloves and completely saturate everything and wring out all the excess back into the bucket. Then hang them to dry

The leftover solution gets strained thru a paint filter into spray bottles to be used to mist my clothes down prior to a hunt and or misting down the dog before we go to the woods.
I hunt some heavily tick infested areas in both NY and pa and have never had a tick on me since using the happy jack.


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That’s hard core! Not knocking it...juts sucks that that is so necessary for a little time in the woods in some places.


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