From: zwickey chad
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Date: 27-Feb-18 |
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Years ago, I became friends with a guy who grew up in Carlyle PA and he got his first dose of eastern shore MD chiggers when he moved here. He had no idea what they were. Anyone else experience chiggers? On the Delmarva Peninsula, we can't go in the woods during warm months and expect to come out unscathed.
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From: Redheadtwo
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Date: 27-Feb-18 |
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Best home remedy is fingernail polish. Had more than my fair share of chiggers growing up. These are some wicked little burrowing critters!
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From: Kodiaktd
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Date: 27-Feb-18 |
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Yep. I got them a couple times when I was in the army doing a FTX when station down south.
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From: Redheadtwo
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Date: 27-Feb-18 |
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Forgot to add-paint over the blisters with the polish.
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From: 2 bears
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Date: 27-Feb-18 |
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WE had them so bad and they would make me sick. After every hunt I would wipe down with Pine O Pine and water. I had to get them off and it seemed like nothing was full proof.The archery season was miserable. The chiggers/red bugs completely disappeared and ticks nearly so. They claim it was the fire ants that eliminated them. If so I am glad but they are another problem. At least you can see them and know immediately when you get in them. I feel your itch,but I don't miss them a bit. >>>----> Ken
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From: Rik Davis
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Date: 27-Feb-18 |
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Wear long pants, dust ankles with sulfur or spray clothes permethrin or DEET." all of this should help. By the way, we traditionally used red fingernail polish. Call it the Red Badge of Courage".
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From: Dennis in Virginia
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Date: 27-Feb-18 |
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using deet on socks and both sides of pants legs helps; and for the ones that gets through, I let hot tap water run on the affected area until the itching stops, repeat as needed. it works.
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From: unhinged
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Date: 27-Feb-18 |
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Had to look to find out about Chigers. Nasty, and you can't see them! I don't envy you guys living in Tick/Chigger/Noseeum country.
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From: Clydebow
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Date: 27-Feb-18 |
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For some reason a fend and can walk together thru the same stuff and his legs get covered with bites. I never get them.
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From: nrthernrebel05
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Date: 27-Feb-18 |
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I moved from NJ to VA in 1980 when I was 29. the first time I got them I thought I had gotten poison oak or something. When I told my friends about all the red bumps, they all laughed and told me it was chiggers. And then I asked them what the hell is a chigger. I am also one of the ones that gets them when no one else does. Sraying clothes and especially socks with the highest % deet I can find helps a lot. I have tried everything in the book. The red bumps are not the chigger he is gone by then. That is you body reacting to the "straw" they leave in you. The ABSOLUTE BEST thing for the itch is Perperation H creme.
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From: White Falcon
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Date: 27-Feb-18 |
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I say it every year!!! Just rub this on, itching GONE!!!!!!!
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From: Bowguy
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Date: 27-Feb-18 |
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Those things are terrible ugh
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From: Bowguy
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Date: 27-Feb-18 |
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Those things are terrible ugh. I was at a field trial one day. Not far from the house in Pa. Some of the club guys informed us later we should be on guard for chiggers. Now we were running dogs at that point for hours. My buddy never got a single bite yet his father and I wound up covered. Wonder what that anti perspirint does? Must seal the bites but they don’t lay eggs Inside you like everyone thinks so it can’t suffocate em. A buddy of mine said he wore pantyhose believe it or not in chigger country and he never got bit. Said it was a marine corps trick. Idk I think they were hazing him!!
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From: George D. Stout
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Date: 27-Feb-18 |
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If he grew up in Carlisle, he just was lucky then if he spent much time around the creeks like we did. There aren't everywhere, but we got into them while we were growing up near Boiling Springs, six miles south of Carlisle back in the 50's 60's. It was a relatively rare occurrence though compared to how much time we were running around in those brushy mountains and creek valleys.
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From: M60gunner
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Date: 27-Feb-18 |
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When I was a kid squirrel hunting in Southern Illinois. We were hunting with this old friend of my folks who lived there. I got them where my skin met my boot tops. Mother used calimine lotion. The next year I followed the old mans advice and rubbed Kerosene on my boots and pant legs. Stinks but worked.
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From: David McLendon
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Date: 27-Feb-18 |
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Treat your clothes including socks with Permanone/Permetherine same as you should be doing for ticks, and send a fat brush rubbing buddy out ahead of you to pick them up.
By the time you are scratching, they are already gone so save the solvents.
Seed ticks are far worse than Chiggers and that joy can last over 3 weeks. Best remedy when covered with bites is a trip to the Doc for a Medrol Dose-Pack and you will be over it a lot sooner. Zyrtec (Citrizine Hydrochloride) will help with the itching without drowsyness, if you need a nap then 50mg of Benadryl will work.
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From: JamesV
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Date: 27-Feb-18 |
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After a night of frog hunting I got home at daylight and fell in the bed. I didn't know I had dozens of chiggers and gave the wife her part. I share everything. Got myself a good cussin over that one. The best thing I have found to quiet them down is tooth ache drops, puts them right to sleep.
James
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From: Lowcountry
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Date: 27-Feb-18 |
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I've had them a time or two, but only bad once or twice. Not much fun. I always use clear fingernail polish on the bites. IMO, it's the best "cure".
I've told this story before, but it is a good one. When I was younger, I hunted this club that had terrible redbugs on the Oak Ridges Fingers that ran down into the swamp. I learned the hard way, but the worst aI ever saw was a fellow member who sat on the ground during a drive. The next week, he dropped his drawers and showed us what he was suffering through. I kid you not, his a$$ and upper thighs looked just like he had been shot with bird shot. It was terrible. He said that we should have seen it earlier in the week. He apparently went to some old country doctor, and the Doc told him to go home and put Kerosene (or Diesel Fuel - can't remember which) on his rear end.
When we all groaned and said we didn't know about that, he said "Listen, if that doctor had told me to put kerosene on my a$$ and LIGHT it, I would have tried it."
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From: Andy Man
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Date: 27-Feb-18 |
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David McLendon X 2
he has it right
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From: Yellow Dog
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Date: 27-Feb-18 |
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Being from Michigan, I never knew what a chigger was until I hunted Missouri the first week in October about 5 years ago. That's a memory that will never leave me!!!!!
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From: OldBeginner55
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Date: 27-Feb-18 |
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Chiggers UGH! Get them every time I am out on the golf course during mid- summer. I didn’t know what they were either until someone in the trailer park told me. Too bad no one gave me a cure back then. I will file that idea - the finger nail polish - back in my mind somewhere and continue to spray my legs and especially feet and ankles with DEET. Those bites on the bottom of my feet made me miserable for weeks! ~OB55
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From: Lowcountry
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Date: 27-Feb-18 |
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Chiggars are definitely easier to prevent than they are to treat.
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From: zwickey chad
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Date: 27-Feb-18 |
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Despite what people think............they do not burrow into your skin. Fingernail polish does nothing. They are not there to be smothered. They are much like mosquitoes. The arachnid fam...they attach, inject enzyme that breaks down your flesh, and suck your blood then fall off. You will itch for DAYS! STOP USING FINGERNAIL POLISH!
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From: Lowcountry
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Date: 27-Feb-18 |
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I am aware that it is a bite and not a burrowed insect. The fingernail polish works because it DOES alleviate the itch, AND it hinders scratching. It is a cheap an effective way to deal with chigger bites. However, if you have a serious chiggar situation (many, many - 50+ bites), they don't make enough finger nail polish to help.
In my experience, you suffer no matter what - period. Maybe it is pyschological, but the polish seems to help.
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From: 2 bears
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Date: 27-Feb-18 |
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Several things help with the itch but a bad case would make me sick and run a fever. I used all the preventatives that didn't stink in archery season but a quick wash with Pine O Pine was the only thing that removed them before the bites. I have managed to bring a few home to the wife also. She got bites doing my laundry. Terrible critters I will take snakes any day.>>>----> Ken
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From: George D. Stout
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Date: 27-Feb-18 |
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Benedryl cream will help, as will the pills if it's a bad dose. Best thing is to wear treated clothes if your in an area that the little buggers live. I haven't been into them for decades and I'm fine with that.
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From: RobertFl
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Date: 27-Feb-18 |
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I spray Sawyers brand of peritherin/Permanone on my woods pants, shirts, socks and boots every two weeks. When one of my friends gets Chiggers/Red Bugs I tell them to put meat tenderizer on the red dots. They always tell me it works but sometimes takes two applications to break down the enzymes in the bite area.
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From: Rick Barbee
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Date: 27-Feb-18 |
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We just run with it, then scratch till we bleed, then soak um all down with white vinegar.
Rick
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From: elk nailer
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Date: 28-Feb-18 |
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does permetherine work on brown recluse spiders
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From: Ranman
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Date: 28-Feb-18 |
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I spray DEET around my ankles, on my pants legs, and around my waist. That usually keeps them off.
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From: Hellbender
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Date: 28-Feb-18 |
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Here in Ohio they are bad in late summer in wet areas and tall grass. They are pure misery when you get them around your ankles, insteps, and on your coin purse. There is a base layer system called rhinoskins that I wear hunting to keep the ticks off. They are supposed to stop chiggars too. I treat all of my hunting clothes with permethrin as well. In the summer I douse my shoes and socks with feet, but I hear sulpher is the best chiggar repellant.
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From: Jack
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Date: 28-Feb-18 |
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If a chigger was as big as a tick, it would kill a man!
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From: 76aggie
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Date: 28-Feb-18 |
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I have had a couple of occasions when the outcome was unbearable. They seem to seek warm and moist areas of the body around the waistband and groin area. I have used about everything with the exception of the Arm and Hammer Deodorant White Falcon mentioned. I will have some on hand going forward. As soon as I think I have been exposed to chiggers, I take a warm bath in a bathtub with about a half cup of Clorox in the water and soak in there for a while. That has proven to be he best remedy for me.
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From: yohon
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Date: 28-Feb-18 |
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Eastern shore native here and Permanone/permetherin is your friend. I get the concentrate from Tractor Supply and mix my own and spray it on clothes ALL the time when I head to the woods. We laugh when they say one treatment last several washings, as often as we spray clothes I should be good for a couple years then LOL!!! I hate them things, much rather deal with skeeters than chiggers.
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From: flyguysc
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Date: 28-Feb-18 |
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Chiggers: The larvae of one type of mites, of the family Trombiculidae. The larvae, or juvenile forms, feed on vertebrates such as humans, while the adult mites feed on soil. Chigger bites produce a red welt accompanied by an intense and unrelenting itch. Chiggers are so tiny that they can barely be seen with the naked eye. However, when they are present in a group, they may be noticed on the skin due to their red color. When chiggers bite humans, they inject a digestive enzyme into the host skin that destroys tissue. It is this tissue, and not blood, that serves as food for the chiggers. Chiggers have delicate mouth parts that typically can enter human skin only at areas where the skin has folds or wrinkles. Most chigger bites occur around the ankles, the back of the knees, the crotch, under the belt line and in the armpits. The chigger bite itself goes unnoticed, and the itching may last for days to weeks.
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From: Firecracker
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Date: 28-Feb-18 |
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Us timber folks still use sulfur. No chiggers, redbugs, or friends will bother you.
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From: zwickey chad
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Date: 28-Feb-18 |
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Always send your buddy in ahead of you. The chiggers go to the first foreign object they encounter and he''ll clear all the spider webs too:)
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From: sir misalots
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Date: 28-Feb-18 |
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I hate em but Id take them all day and twice on Sunday compared to ticks. Went out Sunday to pull a trail cam card. Was in the woods for 15 minutes. Taking a shower that night I had a tick attached to my stomach. They leave a mark and itch for weeks. When I was a kid Id walk thru fields in cooper hollow. I "might" pick up a tick Now I look out the window and I get one:(
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From: fdp
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Date: 28-Feb-18 |
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Like 2bers we don't have any chiggers here in my part of Texas, or ticks. The river bottoms I hunt in though are at times lousy with them. I'm one of those people that for whatever reason they don't bother too bad. I get a few, but certainly not like some folks I've seen with them.
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From: Jeffhalfrack
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Date: 01-Mar-18 |
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Tell me about the sulfur ,,,,,that's new for me thanks jeffw
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From: Andy Man
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Date: 01-Mar-18 |
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sulfer powder- some of the old timers here used to put it into a sock and beat the dust against their paints legs and socks
the farmers here also have a old pair of coveralls that they spray with diesel fuel and keep hanging in the barn and don them when doing fence work or other stuff in the high grass
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From: RobertFl
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Date: 01-Mar-18 |
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back in the 1980s I used a sulfur Powder called "Flowers of Sulfur" . Like Andy said, I put it in a tube sock. But I applied the sulfur to my bare legs ankles up to waist line. When I found Permanone spray over 30 years ago I quit using the Sulfur powder.
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From: Babysaph
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Date: 01-Mar-18 |
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They don't like deet
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From: Andy Man
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Date: 01-Mar-18 |
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Is Deet trad? :>)
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From: Bow Ben
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Date: 02-Mar-18 |
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The collars you can buy for pets , to keep them safe , you can put around your ankles , Works .
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From: J. h2os
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Date: 02-Mar-18 |
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4 men was talking about the badest animal on the earth, The 1st guy said grizzly bear, the 2nd said rattle snake could scare of the biggest bear, 3rd guy said Man, he can kill the snake and the bear, and the fourth said yellow jacket cause they could make a bear and a man run! An old man listening to the story said " when I was a youngun I once saw a Wild mountain man rideing a grizzle bear useing a Rattlesnake as a bull whip hearding a swarm of hornets down the mountain, and one itty bitty CHIGGER made them all stop and itch!" jeff
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