Tick Control for Deer Hunters
The calendar may have just clicked into summer but if you’ve been living the outdoors lifestyle you know that ticks have been active for several months already. And will be for several more. And it makes no difference whether you live in our country’s southern or northern tier. Even in northern-tier Midwestern states, ticks are active and crawling for seven months or more yearly, and smart hunters everywhere will take precautions to prevent disease-carrying tick bites.
I’ve been lucky enough to avoid contracting the dreaded tick-borne Lyme disease over my hunting career, but not lucky enough to avoid a tick-caused illness. Just a few years ago, I was scouting a public big-woods area in northern Wisconsin with the help of some brushy overgrown two-tracks and a mountain bike, when I returned to the cabin to find a half-dozen ticks embedded in my skin.
Continue readingto learn more about controlling ticks, written by Mark Melotik.
July 19, 2025
Mark Melotik
Mark Melotik is a freelance writer covering topics such as hunting, fishing, camping, conservation and gear reviews.
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Tick Control for Deer Hunters
The calendar may have just clicked into summer but if you’ve been living the outdoors lifestyle you know that ticks have been active for several months already. And will be for several more. And it makes no difference whether you live in our country’s southern or northern tier. Even in northern-tier Midwestern states, ticks are active and crawling for seven months or more yearly, and smart hunters everywhere will take precautions to prevent disease-carrying tick bites.
I’ve been lucky enough to avoid contracting the dreaded tick-borne Lyme disease over my hunting career, but not lucky enough to avoid a tick-caused illness. Just a few years ago, I was scouting a public big-woods area in northern Wisconsin with the help of some brushy overgrown two-tracks and a mountain bike, when I returned to the cabin to find a half-dozen ticks embedded in my skin.
Continue readingto learn more about controlling ticks, written by Mark Melotik.
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Sawyer’s spray offers an impressive 12 hours of protection against mosquitoes and ticks, and a little less (eight hours) against flies, gnats, and chiggers.
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Sawyer’s Permethrin spray has also worked as promised.
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Sawyer, for example, checks to ensure that no pore size exceeds 0.01 microns, stating that “the filters are then checked four more times at crucial points of assembly for filter integrity before they make their way onto the shelf.”
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