Tick Warning

Hey Guys,

I hunted a Simcoe County Forest last week, and I brought something home. Unfortunately, it wasn't a turkey (due to another inconsiderate #$%@ hunter) it was a deer tick!

I started out all tucked in, but I guess my shirt came untucked, and the tick found its opportunity. I was lucky that I whacked my back on a tree when I was hunting because when I got home, I asked my family to take a look. When I pulled up my shirt, they screeched..."DAD! You have a tick!!!" This is when the home surgery began, then a trip to the doctor to ensure it was all out.

Don't forget to tuck in, apply bug spray with deet, check yourself out once home, leave your hunting gear outside, then shower like Jim Carrey in Pet Detective.

Good Luck

Wishfish

Make sure you identify the tic. If it’s female get it tested. Keep it in a ziplock bag and take it to your family doctor.

You should wash your hunting gear after each hunt as the tic can stay in your gear outside and get you the next time you wear it. Pretty positive that how I got one last year. It was in my clothes from the day before. Same happened to my daughters boyfriend from a work coat. He was in long grass the previous day and left his work coat in his car. He wore it all the next day but not in the bush and had it tic in him that night.

sends shivers up my back, I hate ticks. I have had 2 attached to me over the years. The first one I put in a pill bottle and took to hospital. I got a couple weeks of antibiotics and they sent tick in to health unit. 3 weeks later I get a letter from the health unit, saying they identified it as a deer tick. Well that's nice I knew that the same day, bit of a waste of time. I quite hunting a property that had so many turkeys you could just pick and choose which one you want and when you wanted to shoot, because it has so many ticks. be safe out there

Keep that property. Just go super early in the season and but a blind in. Cut back the brush around the blind and you’ve solved 90% of the problem while hunting. I did this on a spot were I hunt where I got my tic. I am still careful with how a dress. Tuck pants into my sock, tuck both into long boots like mucks. Wear layers. Tuck your shirt and under shirt into your pants. Wear long sleeve t-shirts. When you get home strip down and throw it all in the wash.

Deet also helps keep them away.

Disco the spot I hunted didn't lend itself to putting up a blind. I did all you suggest with the cloths. I even took off all outer cloths and put in a garbage bag for trip home, as once didn't put in bag. Next day at work I was leaning over a coworker going over drawings and a tick fell off me onto his hand, Al lunch I went to my truck, it was hot and sunny, and I killed 13 ticks crawling on the roof liner of my SUV. I did start only going early but it started to get warmer every year to the point there were ticks at the start of the season. I now hunt where there are not ticks, not near as many turkey, but I still seem to get at least 1 in range in the season, I'd much rather this then take a chance with all the ticks. Getting harder all the time to find a place with no ticks. Both the wife and I got ticks on us just working in the yard couple years ago and we live in town,

Give yourself a good go over before you get in your vehicle as ticks can fall off you and live in the truck/car for awhile. Then they can get on you and you don't even know it, you just assume you picked it up hunting or enjoying your activity..

Thanks for all the Tick Tips. I hate those things!

Wishfish