spring bear hunting story for today

[Jake T]

out bear hunting.  got into a little clearing and sat down to let all of the noise i made settle down.  sat on a log near an old  brush pile.  after a few minutes i reached into my pocket to get the distress call to try and bring something in when i notice a tick on my sleeve.  i HATE ticks so i smashed him.  then i noticed he had a buddy so i smashed him too.  two was enough so i stood up to leave and saw a third one on my pant leg so i smashed him too.  and i ran like hell out of there.

got to the truck and felt a mosquito on my neck so i smashed him and when i looked at my hand i saw it was another tick.  so i jumped in the truck and sped to another spot i had in mind that was two hills over.  got out and started walking.  saw a couple deer and then i felt a pinch on my leg.  tick bite.  went to the truck to get the tweezers and i felt a pinch on my stomach.  another tick bite.

tried to pull the one on my belly out but he wasn't moving and it was a little gross trying to pull this bug out.  all i could think of was this little bug burrowing into me and starting to run around under my skin like that beetle in the mummy movie.  freaked me out.

so i had to go back into town to the hospital to get them pulled out.  not only did the nurse lady make fun of me because i was too chicken to pull out the bug, but she made fun of me for being fat and hairy.  it was all in fun but dang, kick a guy when he's down why don't you.  so hunting was cut short for today.

anybody use those bug skinz or whatever they are?  do they work?  do you get hot in them?  seems like they would make you hot but i don't know.

i hate ticks.  freakin' freeloaders.  GET A JOB YOU STUPID TICKS!!

[Michelle_Nelson]

I hate ticks to.  Had one once and my uncle pulled the head off and than had to dig the head out with a pocket knife.   

[ThePascoKid]

I've had those nasty things all over me like that before, but I never had them burrow in, I can't believe they could burrow that fast, they must be hungry little devils.  Your story made me itch all over.

[rasbo]

yuk.....I feel for ya.Ive never had one get in me

[jager]

AAAAHHHHHHH !!!       

[Machias]

Man I grew up in the midwest and I'm not kidding you,  you  would go fishing or squirrel hunting and have 15 to 20 already dug in but the time you got home.  Seed ticks were the worst, you could brush up against a bush and litterally have 100 seed ticks on you in less then a half a second.  Trust me these ticks up here are sloooow eaters.

[walt]

C'mon, they aren't that bad.  I pick them off me every spring.  I picked off 8 one day last year after crawling around in the brush all day.  I've probably found 75 on me over the years and only had 2 that had started digging in.  As long as you check yourself at the truck or back home or each day if you're out overnight they usually don't start digging in, if they do just take a deep breath, get a good grip on it and pull it out slow.  Y'all sound like a bunch of pansies.    Now, if you put a spider near me I just might wet myself, squeal and pass out.  

[boneaddict]

 

[runamuk]

ewwwwww I hate ticks, lice, and fleas,... oh and mosquitos...... useless disease bearing bugs.....

and yes I am a big pansie... I am a girl   

and I am not afraid of spiders and snakes and lizards and mice  

[murphyranch]

ewwwwww I hate ticks, lice, and fleas,... oh and mosquitos...... useless disease bearing bugs.....

and yes I am a big pansie... I am a girl  

and I am not afraid of spiders and snakes and lizards and mice  

My wife is the same way freaks her out. I grew up in Western Montana and we got them quite often when we worked in the woods ya get used to them. Touch a hot cigarette to there rearend and they back out in a hurry.

[andrew_12gauge]

i was out hikin in the desert unit in august once and found a bunch of ticks somehow i started pickin em off of me and when i finally got to about 13 and noticed that there were at least 5 more on my t-shirt i ended up takin the shirt off and tossin it out the truck window, my skin crawled for about 5 days straight after that i hate ticks

[Wanttohuntmore]

Lacking better judgement, I might as well tell this story.  My first tick experience happened while fishing the skookumchuck and Cowlitz for steelies.  I made a pitstop at the skook, then drove down to the cowlitz, and noticed something kept jabbing me where you shouldn't be jabbed.  I had two buddies with me, and I was holding them up at the barrier dam trying to "adjust" so the jabbing would stop, so I gave up and we went down to fish, all while I was being jabbed.  After about 45 min we gave up, nobody was catching so we decided to call it a day.  I'm standing there in the parking lot, taking off the waders when I get jabbed again.  I'm thinking this is one hell of a sticker I picked up.  I couldn't stand it, so right in the parking lot I dropped 'em and took a peak.  Low and behold, a tick, right on top of where it should not be.  I screamed like a pansy @ss, "a tick on my dck, a tick on my dck".  "Get a match or cigar, I got get this thing to let go".  My one buddy didn't believe me till I showed him.  I still question his motives.  Weird day none the less.  Put the thing in a baggy, took it to the Dr's, and got a prescription for antibiotics.  I do not want lyme disease from no deer tick.  Since then I've had many tick experiences, but none were this bad.  I did pick up about 25 of them over in the Colville area looking for gobblers, but no bites.  I HATE TICKS!

[Archery King]

stop being a baby and get to hunting those bears   lol

[bigdave]

I also had a buddy get one on his head.....not the one on his shoulders. I told him "I love you man but that you are going to have to handle yourself".  Later, He said that the guy in the movie "City Slickers" would have sucked the poison from a rattlesnake out of his best friend butt. My response was, "I guess you know the limits of our relationship". There is something about bugs and a guys nether regions that makes us all scream like little girls.

Now I have to go take a shower.

[BLKBEARKLR]

tick on my dck, man I wish I was there to see that, I am still laughing almost like that song there's a skeeter on my peter knock it off

[7mag.]

If one starts to burro, use heat. I use a lighter, and put the flame under his little ass. They will back out real damn fast.

[Gobble]

If one starts to burro, use heat. I use a lighter, and put the flame under his little ass. They will back out real damn fast.

Try that one on your junk 

[rasbo]

If one starts to burro, use heat. I use a lighter, and put the flame under his little ass. They will back out real damn fast.

Try that one on your junk 

yeah the brush fire it would start surely would get them on the run

[7mag.]

If one starts to burro, use heat. I use a lighter, and put the flame under his little ass. They will back out real damn fast.

Try that one on your junk

yeah the brush fire it would start surely would get them on the run

Wow, you guys must have short ones.   

[rasbo]

If one starts to burro, use heat. I use a lighter, and put the flame under his little ass. They will back out real damn fast.

Try that one on your junk 

yeah the brush fire it would start surely would get them on the run

Wow, you guys must have short ones.   

no we dont wax

[7mag.]

If one starts to burro, use heat. I use a lighter, and put the flame under his little ass. They will back out real damn fast.

Try that one on your junk 

yeah the brush fire it would start surely would get them on the run

Ouch, that was below the belt.   
Wow, you guys must have short ones.   

no we dont wax

[lamar_hunter]

tick on my dck, man I wish I was there to see that, I am still laughing almost like that song there's a skeeter on my peter knock it off

haha its wack it off! david allen coe. funny song 

[JBar]

  I screamed like a pansy @ss, "a tick on my dck, a tick on my dck".  "

LOL That has to be one of the funniest things I've heard in a long time! I read this post this morning and was laughing for 15 minutes and here I go back to it and it's just as funny as it was this morning! You kill me man, thanks for the laugh, sorry it was at the expense of your Johnson! As for Ticks can't stand them, went shed hunting a couple of years ago and we all piled into my buddies rig and started noticing ticks crawling everywhere. We all bailed out after an abrupt stop and damn near stripped in the middle of the road. Had the heebees all the way home. Only two things you can do about them little *censored*s  or if you could, kill em all!!! 

[whacker1]

tick on my junk- great stuff - laughing for several minutes on that one.  I hate the damn things.

[Alpine Mojo]

"a tick on my dck, a tick on my dck"...My one buddy didn't believe me till I showed him.

You know, thats how rumors get started.   

[Wanttohuntmore]

My friends thought it was funny as well.  Me, I was crying and laughing all the way home.  It's amazing how those little devil bugs can create pain when they latch on (and trust me, it continued for another hour after it was removed).  Also, I don't buy into the "use a match or cigarette" routine.  Tried it, it didn't work.  I ended up burning the thing, and the other thing as well during the process.  Still gives me the heabies....

[rasbo]

what the F%$# yeah that's what I said..No bear sign.Still cant access my area.and it was snowing to beat hell

[Bama76]

I read a pretty cool technique for tick removal that I'm in no hurry to try.  Soak a cottonball in liquid soap (I'm guessing  DAWN) and hold it on the little booger for about a minute and most times the little @$$holes come off when you pull the cottonball away.  Like I said, haven't tried it.   I do know that mayonaise loosens their grip better than anything else I've tried.

[Wenatcheejay]

ROFLMAO - Great stories...

I have had them on me but never had one take up residence. The worst that has happened is taking our Golden up to the Quincy Wildlife Area about this time of year and take the hike to Dusty Lake. Pretty hike but she was covered in ticks. There is a tick spray that worked like magic. You would think that I was spraying acid on the little basturds.