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Author Topic: Chigger help....Please  (Read 1017 times)

Offline SKITCH

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Chigger help....Please
« on: July 30, 2012, 02:22:00 PM »
I was out in the woods all weekend...scouting for Hog sign and looking at areas to "hopefully" get my first trad shot at a deer this season. I've been out of the area for quite a few years and forgot about those pesky little guys!   :help:   I was wearing long cotton cargo style pants and good boots. I am eaten up with chigger bites! Even below the boot line down to my ankles.  How does that happen?   :confused:  
Can anyone give advice on the right product to use to help with this or should I just "man up" if I'm going to be out in the woods during this time of year?    :dunno:  
  Also worried about the smell of standard bug sprays etc!

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Re: Chigger help....Please
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2012, 02:27:00 PM »
I use perminone. Spray my boots and clothes. Hadnt had a chigger in 20 years since starting to use it. Keeps most of the ticks off also.
Horesflys are another story. It slows them down a bit, but they ran me out of the woods this weekend.
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Re: Chigger help....Please
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2012, 02:43:00 PM »
The best system I have found (from spending a career that has me in the woods year around)is to purchase some nylon gaitors (I use Rocky Mountain Low Gaitors) or some of the stretchy leg cuffs commonly sold as tick gaitors.  Spray these down with permanone on a regular basis and you will not have any problems with chiggers beyond the rare bite or two.

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Re: Chigger help....Please
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2012, 02:52:00 PM »
Go to WalMart and buy some Permanon.  It will rid you of all your chigger problems.  That stuff works great.

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Re: Chigger help....Please
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2012, 03:08:00 PM »
Went in the woods for an extended time this past Weds. I used permanone. No chiggers.

I went into the woods to check my mineral lick Thursday. Spent all of five minutes in the woods. Eaten up from chest to ankles and even some on my feet. (last count was around 50 bites)

Permanone is THE way.

You can buy a 6oz Permetherine concentrate for cattle and mix your own. You'll have years worth of coverage.
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Re: Chigger help....Please
« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2012, 03:11:00 PM »
Agree permanone is the way to go, once dry on your clothing no odor and lasts several weeks. Ticks and redugs/chiggers are bad this year.
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Re: Chigger help....Please
« Reply #6 on: July 30, 2012, 03:44:00 PM »
This will make you feel a little less manly unless you can get a female type friend to make the purchase for you, but I have combined an old Infantry trick involving "sock liners" (women's knee high panty hose) soaked in the afore mentioned permanone.  You then have a knee high skin tight layer of fantastic insecticide.  Add that to the regular treatment of your boots, socks, and pants and you should be golden.  You feel a little goofy at the dollar store buying ten or fifteen of the little plastic ball panty hose containers for $.99 each, but it's well worth it to avoid the parasite problems.
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Re: Chigger help....Please
« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2012, 04:35:00 PM »
scouting ,rain suit bibs and duct tape cuffs to rubber boots and some round the waste ,if a fly spray that area..works for me

Offline Gordon Jabben

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Re: Chigger help....Please
« Reply #8 on: July 30, 2012, 05:44:00 PM »
Skitch
Here in Oklahoma, the seed ticks hatch out in late july and are so small, they are hard to see.  I bet that's what you got into.  Perminone works best for them.

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Re: Chigger help....Please
« Reply #9 on: July 30, 2012, 05:53:00 PM »
If you got into them dadgum seed ticks the only thing you can do if they bit you is ride out.

 I feel for you bud LOL them buggers are nasty.

 The last time I forgot to use permanone and I found those little ticks on me I rushed home and dusted myself in seven dust waited about five minutes and took a hot shower.

 
 Better to get the permanone and be ready to begin with
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Re: Chigger help....Please
« Reply #10 on: July 30, 2012, 05:56:00 PM »
We always waited till after a VERY HARD frost before going to south jersey(chigger country around here) the itch that keeps on moving LOL
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Re: Chigger help....Please
« Reply #11 on: July 30, 2012, 06:13:00 PM »
I will still bet it was chiggers.  The sandy parts of my property are full of them.  Went out in shorts a few weeks ago like an idiot. Had one 6 inch section of my leg with over 50 bites.  Permanone does wonders.  I have been spraying much more that a gator area, but that sounds pretty convenient.  Just won't help if you decide to sit, then you will gets bites at the waistline.

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Re: Chigger help....Please
« Reply #12 on: July 30, 2012, 07:51:00 PM »
Get some Tea Tree Oil to put on the bites. That works wonders.
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Re: Chigger help....Please
« Reply #13 on: July 30, 2012, 08:25:00 PM »
I have always used "Clear Nail Polish" for the After Effects. Smothers the little Creatures!!  :thumbsup:   Gonna have to try Permanone, sounds like Good Stuff! I usually just use "Deep Woods Off", the Dry Kind is the Bomb! Especially for Wee Ones!  :goldtooth:
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Re: Chigger help....Please
« Reply #14 on: July 30, 2012, 08:28:00 PM »
Chiga-Rid the best out there. Permanone to prevent and Chiga-Rid if you forget the Permanone.
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Re: Chigger help....Please
« Reply #15 on: July 30, 2012, 08:55:00 PM »
The other pluses about using Permanone, Permathrin, etc. is that it is nearly odorless once dry.  It does not eat bow finishes, vehicle clearcoats, plastics, fly line, and watch faces like deet based repellants do.  It lasts about two weeks on your clothes, even through washings if applied correctly.
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Re: Chigger help....Please
« Reply #16 on: July 30, 2012, 10:15:00 PM »
best ways to get rid of them once gotten, clorox does the job fast feel the burn, kerosene about the same white vinegar no burn but will kill them , clorox hurts but no faster way do I know to rid yourself of the itch!!!!get em bad in Bama, thanks for tips on prevention like to hear a few more.
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Re: Chigger help....Please
« Reply #17 on: July 30, 2012, 10:23:00 PM »
I spray Deep Woods Off on my bare skin from my knees to my toes, put on my socks, spray them with Off.  Then I put on my bibs and longsleeve shirt, both sprayed with permanone, or similar.  Anything that gets into my rubber boots gets to deal with permanone and/or deet.  After a frost or two, I just use permanone for the ticks.  A deer isn't going to smell my Off while upwind of me.  If it smells my Off, it's downwind and would smell me anyway.  I hate to itch!!!!!
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Re: Chigger help....Please
« Reply #18 on: July 30, 2012, 10:36:00 PM »
Everything mentioned so far is very good, but don't spray bug spray on your skin that is meant for your clothes, Badgers anti-bug spray is very good for a clothes spray and excellent for your skin, it's even O.K. for kids. Since I have been using this I never get any chiggers or ticks. I spray my socks, above the boot and even with shorts on I never get them, try it, you'll like it.

Now that you have them, use an antibiotic cream for a few days and that will get rid of them.

Hope you feel better.
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Re: Chigger help....Please
« Reply #19 on: July 30, 2012, 10:53:00 PM »
have not had the pleasure of chigs this yr yet - I just do not even stress em anymore, wear knee high rubber boots with trousers tucked and no sprays and the such. Just suck up what ever I get.
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