The best fly dope (insect repellent) I have used

[Yolla Bolly]

Around here, have been using the repellents from Repel and Cutter that contain picardin, rather than Deet.  They work well here in the valley---have not had the chance yet to give them the real workout, with the high country spring blood suckers. Still too much snow to get up there.

[Jon Stewart]

Where can you buy the Badger product?

[NoCams]

Bump TTT for me and Jon.... where can you get the Badger product fellas ???

[b.glass]

Look on-line, I found it for $7.20 per 2 oz. tin if you buy 12 or more. Then there was $7.35 of you got 4-5 tins. It appears to retail at $10.00 a 2 oz tin at most sites.

Homs is cheaper and you get more for your money. I would like to get both and compare. I also have the Thermocel I need to try.

I'm thinking about getting several if I could re-sell them. If anyone is going to Cloverdale let me know I could try and have some for the shoot.

[PatriarchArcher]

I have had good success with the Thermocell. Bugs are real nasty in SC.

[tim roberts]

I have just enough brain cells to get to my grave..can't afford to lose any more.
Ray,
That is some funny stuff there!!!

[DannyBows]

I haven't gotten the Homes yet, but the Badger came. Good stuff! I like that it's made of natural oils, including Cedar Oil. Works great.

I got it on the auction site.

[jhg]

Its Homs, not Homes. Sorry for the mis spell in my original post.

Anyone else able to report on this product. I am curious if others have had the same great result I did.

Joshua

[JockC]

There is a scentless product called Ultrathon that works well.  It's pricey, but occasionally you can find the military version in a surplus store, even here in Montana, for considerably less.  It is really effective.  I've used a lot of DEET and try to avoid it now.

[scbowhnter]

Thermacell just redesigned the holster so it's a lot easier to put the unit in it and a clip was added to make it easier to attached to belts, packs, etc. Makes a great way to carry your refills as well!

[Lost Arra]

If you can control ticks with a Thermacell then your ticks are wimps!

My  Thermacell works great for any flying bug but the ticks laugh at it.

Ultrathon is a time-release deet lotion that does a good job on our ticks.

[Ray Hammond]

Thermacell won't work on ticks.

You need to use permethrin sprayed and allowed to dry on your pants legs waistband, and shirt cuffs and collar area.

That's the only way to eliminate ticks.

Osage, yes...I've had really good results with thermacell...they say lay flat... but as long as you loosely attach it so air can get to the back of the unit, you're golden.

I hang it from a pack, possibles bag strap, or my belt behind me. The stream of repellent trails behind you if you are moving- that's exactly where your carbon dioxide trail is, which is what the mosquitoes are following to locate you so they can get a meal.

As soon as you become stationary, the protection surrounds you. If there's a breeze, you don't need to worry too much as skeeters anyway because they'll go down in the grass/bushes to escape the breeze to begin with.

We have the duck-raper subspecies of mosquito in SC and I don't wear any repellent- just use the thermacell and cover up sensibly- long sleeves and no exposed neck area as I use a kercheif or other neck covering and a hat.

[Doc Nock]

I spray all my clothes heavily with Permanone and let it air dry a day or two outside.

Smells like line dried, obviously.

I do head nets, face masks, gloves, hats, etc.

I've warded off skeeters in varied areas of PA and in MD including Blackwater Refuge on the E. shore.

Only repellant I had and I could see the skeeters "hovering" about 18" away but never come in and stay!

I didn't think Permanone would repell skeeters, but it has for me and that E. Shore swamp country is loaded.

FWIW... now I also use the thermacell like Ray said.  Only bites I got at his place were on the porch after dark in shorts! And no, didn't have the "cell" on till too late!

[Pete W]

This is the best I have used. No deet, and lasts. No Toxic chemicals.
Pete

 http://insectdefendpatch.com/
 

[Stumpkiller]

Originally posted by NoCams:
Hey StumpKiller.... where do we get Badger at ???

Local Agway (farm supply store).  There are also a couple small shops near where we keep our boat that carry it.

PS - endorced by the Cornell ornithology and biology field teams.  The man who told me about it is a veterinary pathologist who studies diseased or dead animals in rain forests in South America.  He would know about bad bugs!

Here's a website link to their store locator.

 http://www.badgerbalm.com/t-buy_badger.aspx

[Hawkeye]

Pete,

I was trying to remember the name of that product last night. Thanks for the reminder- may need to give it a try this year!

[b.glass]

I can't find either of them around here. I will have to order it on line. I did pick up something call "Swamp Gator" today and put some on when a deer fly was making a real pest of himself. Nothing bothered me the rest of my practice.

[Pete W]

I passed out a case of them last year at a shoot when I was doing a review on the Patch and had a lot of great feedback.
 They are all I use now.
 Pete

[David Mitchell]

Have any of you heard of the Shoo Tag??  It is a credit card sized tag you clip on or carry in a pocket....no chemicals....their web site has some cobblety gook stuff that really sounds weird--stuff like the magnetic strip is programmed with frequencies and resonances that when combined with the wearers electro magnetic field becomes a powerful repellent force, etc. etc. yadda, yadda.....I would simply dismiss it up front except there are a couple of guys here in my home state who have posted about it on a state forum who swear by it.  Anybody heard of it, or better yet, anybody tried it?  I may get one on line just to check it out--not too expensive.....Dave

[Wayde Burke]

Guys ! Where do I get my hands on this Badger bug stuff. I've never heard of it before, but it sounds great.