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Crackshot Super Member
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hunterjoe21 Super Member
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 7:41 pm Post subject: Re: Opening day Squirrel & Rabbit season! |
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HOLY MESSY BROWN STUFF.........
Bugs immune to Repel???
We use it throughout the spring turkey season here, and rarely experience a failure.
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Crackshot Super Member
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 7:18 am Post subject: Re: Opening day Squirrel & Rabbit season! |
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The little ones are staying away, but the Huge ones with tiger stripes on their legs and wings just dive right in and bite the dickens out of us.
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Vince Site Admin
Joined: May 25, 2005 Posts: 15725 Location: Brisbane AUSTRALIA
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 8:12 pm Post subject: Re: Opening day Squirrel & Rabbit season! |
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Gidday Crackshot. Not familiar with Repel, but the most effective insect repellant I have found here in Australia is one called Bushman. Most important part of it though is a chemical called Deet. This stuff does the job nicely with anything that bites. I have used it in the tropical rainforest in Far Northern Australia and it works a treat. It is also exported all over the world, so you no doubt could find it in the USA.
Bushman Insect Repellent
We have another one out here called RID. Smells a bit girly, but it too is great.....and it works for many hours and can be used on the whole family....even babies.
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Crackshot Super Member
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:03 am Post subject: Re: Opening day Squirrel & Rabbit season! |
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Thanks Vince, I will check it out. Repel has 29 or 30% deet and is failing miserably.
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ElyBoy Super Member
Joined: Apr 04, 2006 Posts: 1541 Location: Forest Lake Minnesota
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:48 am Post subject: Re: Opening day Squirrel & Rabbit season! |
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Sorry to hear about the skeeters Crackshot.
Up here in Minnesota, it is the first year that I can remember that the little pests aren't around in Sept.
Just spent the weekend at home hunting in Ely with no bugs either.
I remember when a guy could get Deet at darn near 90%, but the do gooders wanted to protect our health and ordered the percentage of Deet lowered.
I'd like to put those people in the woods with a bunch of skeeters and have them tell me that the old Deet is still bad for us.
Eric
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Crackshot Super Member
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:50 am Post subject: Re: Opening day Squirrel & Rabbit season! |
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ElBoy? You have a hard frost to kill them off?
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ElyBoy Super Member
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:28 pm Post subject: Re: Opening day Squirrel & Rabbit season! |
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Two weeks ago we had a real hard freeze.
It's the first time that my tomato plants died. I was lucky and picked the remaining tomato's the night before.
Now it's warm, but no bugs.
Hope that yours die off soon so you can go hunting.
I won't hunt too much when the little biters are out either.
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hunterjoe21 Super Member
Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Posts: 1486 Location: Miles City, Montana
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:39 pm Post subject: Re: Opening day Squirrel & Rabbit season! |
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Crackshot wrote: |
Thanks Vince, I will check it out. Repel has 29 or 30% deet and is failing miserably. |
Crackshot,
I dug out my Turkey vest to check...
The Repel we've been using is 98.11% DEET
1.89% Other "stuff"
The only place I've found it is Gander Mountain, and it's only available in a non-aerosol.
I believe the laws were changed to limit the DEET content in aerosol containers, although I could be wrong.
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Crackshot Super Member
Joined: Oct 23, 2005 Posts: 1693 Location: Mich
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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:46 am Post subject: Re: Opening day Squirrel & Rabbit season! |
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We have a Gander Mountain localy and they dont have any. Same with all the other stores around sice the skeeters are out in force.
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English Mike Super Member
Joined: Jan 08, 2007 Posts: 1709 Location: Whitehaven, Cumbria, UK
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Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 4:46 pm Post subject: Re: Opening day Squirrel & Rabbit season! |
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I must admit to bemusement at the thought of a "season" for rabbits & squirrels(greys - reds are protected).
Over here, every day is "kill a bunny" day & the same goes for grey squirrels.
For the most part, all our hunting is less regulated than in the US, though the firearms themselves are a different matter....
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jeh7mmmag Member
Joined: Dec 24, 2006 Posts: 223 Location: DFW, TX.
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Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 8:39 pm Post subject: Re: Opening day Squirrel & Rabbit season! |
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Crackshot ,
You might look at Flower of Sulfur
or Sevin garden powder. Work great on chigger and mesquitoes but read the warning on the Sevin. Or buck shot!!
Happy hunting
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