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Offline jadeball1

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Re: Does anyone use bug spray?
« Reply #15 on: August 21, 2008, 09:31:10 AM »
The thermacell, I think is a good way to go. Is it small enough to put in your pack, and does it have to be exposed to work?
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Re: Does anyone use bug spray?
« Reply #16 on: August 22, 2008, 05:15:01 PM »
The Thermacell is a great way to go.  You can clip it to the outside of your pack or on your belt.  I generally just set mine beside me when I'm sitting and then hook it on my pack when I'm walking.
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Re: Does anyone use bug spray?
« Reply #17 on: August 22, 2008, 05:43:16 PM »
As foambeetle said, permanone works well...but there are cheaper ways to get the same effect. Again, the active ingredient in Permanone is Permethrin at  0.50%.

You can buy bug-killer solutions with 10% permethrin at your local Ace.
Dilute it down to .5-1% (with water) and spray it on your clothes. When it's dry, it hardly has any scent at all (unlike deet). It's non-toxic to humans and actually KILLS bugs, where deet only keeps them off. You can fill a squirt bottle full of the stuff for less than a buck and it'll last about 2 weeks.
Just spray it one your clothes/gear/etc....it's not harmful to get it on your skin, but the chemicals/enzymes in your skin degrades permethrin and eliminated it's effectiveness.

Hi-Yield 38Plus is another product that is a whopping 38%. I was just told about this stuff. 2oz. of the stuff mixed with a gallon of water makes for a .60% solution...

Ortho makes a product "Basic Solutions Lawn and Garden Insect Killer" is inexpensive, and is also permethrin based, containing 2.5%.

Cheap, nearly scent-free,non-toxic and it'll actually KILL those darn mosquitoes (and everything else)!
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Re: Does anyone use bug spray?
« Reply #18 on: August 27, 2008, 08:43:04 AM »
I agree with Pope, that buzz-off clothing works awesome.  I have two shirts (got mine at Kauffmans as well) and they are great.  Only setback to them is that they only last for so many washes then they just turn into an expensive shirt.  I think you can get camo clothes with buzz-off now too. 

This does work.  It is essentially off the shelf treatment of permethrin on the clothing.  You can achieve the same by treating your clothes yourself.  I do not know if there's much scent associated with that though.  There's also a natural plant oil called Neem.  It does work but it certainly has a scent to it.  Have no idea if it would spook game or not.  Being a natural plant oil, it may be more tolerable or even be a mask.  :dunno:
It does need to be re-applied quite often.

 


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