Tick Repellent

[bkbk12]

I was just wondering what you guys have found to be the best Tick repellent if there is one a specific brand etc, cost does not matter after getting tick fever last year I am extremely cautious of ticks now any help is appreciated.

[Lost Arra]

Permethrin (brand name Permanone) on clothes

Repel Lotion (Deet 40) on skin

Downside of deet is that it will mess up the finish on a bow so wash hands or wear gloves. Upside is it works the best.

[wds]

Repel permanone. Only on your clothes. Find it at wallmart in the camping section. Spray on. then let dry for a couple hours. Supposed to last several washings.

[wapiti792]

You can buy a Repel brand at Wally World for your clothes that has Permithrin in it. Spray on clothing and lasts 2 weeks...I use plain ol Off Woodsman wipes for the skin cause that spray crap is a pain.

[bkbk12]

thanks I will look it up.

[Bowmania]

After have a tick bit me in an unmentionable place and having it cost 350 bucks I started taking garlic tabs.  Have not had one bit since.  Could be luck, I have had them crawling on me.  Think I googled ticks or tick bites.

Bowmania

[Soilarch]

Here are my two rules:

Permithrin (Permanone) for anything that will crawl on you.  ~Ticks, chiggers, mites~

100% Deet for anything that will land on you. ~Flies, mosquitoes~

I'm not technically allergic, but I have a strong reaction to everything...poison ivy, chiggers, wasps, horseflies, and even mosquitoes...so I don't mess around. Permithrin on my boots, pants, waistline, 100@ deet everywhere else.

Around here the permithrin is the only thing that seems to work on turkey mites.

[lpcjon2]

Sawyers is the best I found.It is permithrin.This link will give you all the opinions and some great info on the Tick.
 http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=087363#000000

[Lost Arra]

Sawyers is good but pricey.

You can buy permethrin concentrate (10%) at the farm store for about $10 a pint. About 1.5oz mixed with a quart of water gives .50%. Put in a spray bottle and wet outside of clothes. Allow time to dry before wearing.  Also deadly on ant hills.

[JEFF B]

the best  tick repellent i know is dont go in to the woods      

[longarrow]

Everything above works good. NOW once the tick is on you...USE NEOSPORN (?) IT WILL CAUSE THE TICK TO LOOSEN IT BITE, in about 20 minutes AND CAN BE REMOVE SAFELY! An old Doctor told me this on a hunting trip to south TX..seems to work well!

[Shooty1]

Permethrin is unquestionably the best for ticks. I use both Permanone and Sawyers.

For skeets, I prefer a mesh hood to DEET, but that's just me.  DEET, by the way, is completely ineffective against ticks.

[Doc Nock]

When guided fishing in MT, we practically DRANK Muskol from CN, 100% DEET. Ate up Seal Dry waders, flylines, etc.

Those PA delta wing flies up the Gallitin Drainage kinda ate OFF as salad dressing, but the 100% stuff kept them at bay.

Now, I can't use anything on my skin after a couple years of that Muskol treatment slathered on me...break out in a horrendous rash!  :(

I spray Permanone on everything, headcoverings, gloves, kercheif around my neck...but let it all line dry for a day... never had even problems with skeeters after doing that.

.. dunno. Shouldn't work, but seems to... and like Soilarch, I swell up for 2 weeks from skeeter bite or sand fleas or whatever bites. Misery. I trust that permanone!

[Lost Arra]

>>DEET, by the way, is completely ineffective against ticks. <<<

Wow! I'm glad our ticks haven't learned that.

[tecum-tha]

Rhino-Skin and a oil-in water solution of the following:
4% catnip oil
3 % Rosemary oil
3% cornmint oil
use a little glyzerin and solubifier to get the emulsion.
16.6 oz around $6.50
A small dove travel hairspray sprayer(2 oz)gives about 3 full body applications. Spray on clothes, too. It will stay there a very long time for quite some time...
and the menthol of the mint has a cooling effect in hot weather just with the slightest breeze

[frankwright]

Originally posted by Lost Arra:
Sawyers is good but pricey.

You can buy permethrin concentrate (10%) at the farm store for about $10 a pint. About 1.5oz mixed with a quart of water gives .50%. Put in a spray bottle and wet outside of clothes. Allow time to dry before wearing.  Also deadly on ant hills.

I have been doing exactly this for the last two seasons. Buying the spray cans was getting expensive if you go to the woods a lot.
I read doing it this way does not have the "secret ingredient" that makes the stuff stick to clothing but I have had no tick or chigger problems at all and we definitely have them in Georgia. It keeps skeeters away too.
A friend of mine swears a swig of Apple Cider Vinegar every day will keep ticks, chiggers and skeeters away.