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Just wondering how the tick situation is out there this year? I haven't had a chance to get out with the crossbow yet but I hunt central NY and I heard the ticks were

bad this year. Wondering if the hard frosts lately have knocked them down or not.

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I shot a doe for a management program in SENY. They do a tick sample test which consists of pulling ticks for 5 minutes and then using a formula to determine something (!!!). After 5 minutes, we found 0(that’s ZERO!) ticks and this was only about 3 hours after she was walking around.
Knock on wood, I have been tick free in SE. all clothes are treated with permethrin which I swear helps.


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Bad in Wmu 6c, up on the nw corner of the Adirondack park. I wiped a non-attached tick off the back of my neck a few weeks ago up there.  I was in my truck on the drive back from drooping my early ML doe off at the butchers in Harrisville.

I pinched off it’s head, so that it couldn’t get anybody else (my mother in law was also in the cab).  I learned, back in 2016,  to never bring another deer home whole again from up there.  I found hundreds of them little suckers on one then, while I was skinning it at home in WMU 9F. I have never found a tick on a deer that I killed around home.
 

After that, any deer I kill up there gets butchered up there (by someone else).  I also always treat my bibs and pants with Sawyers, when I am hunting up there, and so far I have not had any of them little suckers stuck to me.  My father in law (who lives in wmu 6c, had one stuck on him this summer.  

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Wow....I guess it is bad out there with all the Tick sightings. I'm in the process of treating all my clothes with the Sawyerspermethrin so hopefully this helps. I hunt zones 7M, 7S and 7P so I want to be prepared. I don't need any more health problems.

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7s just did a euro mount for a guy, their was 10 ticks crawling in the garbage bag I used to transport the head to my house. 
yesterdays bear had ticks on it also.

Do you work the phrase “the bear I killed” into every conversation you have…I know I would for at least 1 year!!!!!!


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1 minute ago, crappyice said:


Do you work the phrase “the bear I killed” into every conversation you have…I know I would for at least 1 year!!!!!!


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Lol Im not trying not too, but it is pretty damn exciting. I got stew cooking and that’s all I smell right now! 

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