Hi Everyone,
I'm just putting this out there for everyone who may be hunting, at least in southern NH, possibly Ma soon. I in NH and bought my usual muzzy license and have been up in the tree stand most of the 10 days we get ahead of the regular firearms hunters. That being said, today I was up in the stand early and after about an hour, a piece of heavy equipment decided to start their work day. With the amount of noise going on and not seeing any deer, I decided to climb down and do a stalk hunt. Machine noise would help cover my walking footsteps on the terrain. Well after walking and seeing zero deer I called it a day. When I started to remove the layers of clothes it became apparent I picked up some hitchhikers. I found 3 small ticks on me. 2 of them managed to get under 2 jackets and a long sleeve shirt. 1 on my chest and the other on my lower back. That 1 got me really surprised as I wore bibs this am!! I won't be walking again till its either had a cold spell out or no brush to walk by. I've had zero ticks on me every time I've been in the stand.
So take caution out there if your walking the land. Warm weather has kept these little bastards around.
Happy birthday to the Marines and Thanks to all of our Veteran's!!
I'm just putting this out there for everyone who may be hunting, at least in southern NH, possibly Ma soon. I in NH and bought my usual muzzy license and have been up in the tree stand most of the 10 days we get ahead of the regular firearms hunters. That being said, today I was up in the stand early and after about an hour, a piece of heavy equipment decided to start their work day. With the amount of noise going on and not seeing any deer, I decided to climb down and do a stalk hunt. Machine noise would help cover my walking footsteps on the terrain. Well after walking and seeing zero deer I called it a day. When I started to remove the layers of clothes it became apparent I picked up some hitchhikers. I found 3 small ticks on me. 2 of them managed to get under 2 jackets and a long sleeve shirt. 1 on my chest and the other on my lower back. That 1 got me really surprised as I wore bibs this am!! I won't be walking again till its either had a cold spell out or no brush to walk by. I've had zero ticks on me every time I've been in the stand.
So take caution out there if your walking the land. Warm weather has kept these little bastards around.
Happy birthday to the Marines and Thanks to all of our Veteran's!!