Shooter Grrl Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 Whadda damned ugly combination. Didja know that ticks like warm damp places to attach to? Do you know how much of you is warm and damp in 102 degree heat with 90% humidity??!?! What I don't understand is how he got all the way up under my damned hat without me or anyone else noticing the little shit on his travels!!!!!!! Ticks suck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDH Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 You must 'taste' better than me as I think I escaped without any 'sucking'. Then again, maybe that 40% DEET stuff I was covered in protected me (while seriously melting my some of my plastic gear)..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
folsoml Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 Then again, maybe that 40% DEET stuff I was covered in protected me (while seriously melting my some of my plastic gear)..... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I never understood how something that can melt plastic can be safe for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AikiDale Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 I never understood how something that can melt plastic can be safe for you. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, unless you are one of those plastic people you should be okay.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shooter Grrl Posted July 26, 2005 Author Share Posted July 26, 2005 I'm only half plastic Since I left the land of fruits and nuts, I'm losing more and more of it!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTOSHootr Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 I hear you Kath: http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?...topic=24174&hl= Saturday I found a tick in each one of my shoes!! My dog is on Advantix. They die when they bite him and fall in kinds of nice places, like the bed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carinab Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 I only experienced the "ack! Tick! Get it off me" dance once. The thing did an airborne ranger manuever out of a tree onto my arm and then holster. He promptly died a bitter and horrible death - deservedly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caspian_45 Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 Ya'll missed the "tick killin'". We did that the weekend before setup. You couldn't go anywhere without pickin' up half a dozen or more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 They were ALL over the Taxi stage - as well as that bed stage & in the "facilities". Ick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJPoLo Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 We only saw one tick all week. It was crawling up the R.O. on stage 13. He (the tick) was quickly dispatched. -Chet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 I am sorry, but I don't know what all the fuss is about...when I was a kid, you routinely got ticks all over you running thru the woods and pastures...and yes, we got bitten enough times to remember it well, no serious ramifications from all those bites.. Just one of the things that you have to put up with in Tx in the woods and pastures...No Big Deal... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTOSHootr Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 In my neck of the woods the concern is Lyme disease. I've heard of a couple of shooters in our area sidelined from it. The ticks you usually see don't carry it but where there's one, there's the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 My Deep Woods Off (25% DEET?) ate up the cheap plastic watch that I was weraing at the Ohio Section match. It did a good job of keeping the ticks at bay at PASA (though, they tried to find me). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 I found a tick attached to me ONCE and I quickly yanked it out and crushed it in a vicious execution. However, the DOG was the one we thoroughly inspected every night (we were in a rural situation in CA at the time)... god, the ticks were gross. And sometimes we'd be sitting around eating dinner--with the dog sitting there begging, as usual--and we'd hear the occasional "plop!" on the floor, only to notice a fully bloated tick (or two or three) laying there like a helpless, overturned turtle, grossly enlarged with blood like a damn' balloon... GAH!!!! During dinner!!! We would put them in bags, take 'em outside and stomp on 'em. Had to kill 'em somehow, but not something you want to do on the kitchen floor and have blood spewing all over. Acck, gross. <insert hurling emoticon> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJPoLo Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 My cousin Mike, in Canterbury, Connecticut, would take a pair of needle-nosed pliers and a pop bottle with some gasoline in it out on the back porch. He'd dip the pliers in the gas and put a drop on each of the ticks he found on their dog (black lab). Then, he would pull the tick off the dog and drop it into the bottle. At the end of each summer he had a thoroughly disgusting bottle of Ticks 'n Gasoline. -Chet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wide45 Posted July 27, 2005 Share Posted July 27, 2005 The Dark house was heavily infested with the wingless bloodsuckers. My time would have been about a second less, if it had occured to me that the couch was probably crawling with them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDH Posted July 27, 2005 Share Posted July 27, 2005 Two things.... First, I was surprised to see some big dog laying on my stage in Barry, and was worried about the ticks. I asked the owner (sorry, can't remember the name so feel free to help me out), and he said that the dog was on XXX (Frontline maybe?). Apparently some drug that as soon as the tick bites, he immediately lets go and is pretty disoriented and falls off. Would be nice if WE could take that drug... Second, when I was a kid I used to travel the woods with a magnifying glass. One of my favorite things to do if I found a tick on a sunny day was to put it on a flat surface, and focus the sun's energy through my magnifying glass on his little squirming body. POP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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