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Title: Gnats & Skeeters ~VIDEO~
Post by: HARDCORE on May 02, 2011, 05:23:33 PM
Just curious if any of you guys experience anything like this while turkey hunting. We dealt with em for the second half of the season. They can be a real pain in the arse.

                 
Ck out this short video............http://youtu.be/IjH0Y_8-Xw0

HC
Title: Re: Gnats & Skeeters ~VIDEO~
Post by: CASH on May 02, 2011, 06:38:49 PM
I spent a weekend turkey hunting with them this year.  Those gnats were no joke!
Title: Re: Gnats & Skeeters ~VIDEO~
Post by: Bonjour on May 02, 2011, 07:43:52 PM
Take a shower once in a while.  :TooFunny:
Title: Re: Gnats & Skeeters ~VIDEO~
Post by: redarrow on May 02, 2011, 07:48:22 PM
No gnats this year,but I did bring home a spider the size of a dinner plate. Well ok.he was big as a quarter. Dropped my vest on the living room floor and out he came. Mashed him with a pot call.
Title: Re: Gnats & Skeeters ~VIDEO~
Post by: LX_Trkyhntr on May 02, 2011, 08:13:09 PM
Quote from: Bonjour on May 02, 2011, 07:43:52 PM
Take a shower once in a while.  :TooFunny:

:TooFunny: :TooFunny: :TooFunny:
Title: Re: Gnats & Skeeters ~VIDEO~
Post by: HARDCORE on May 02, 2011, 09:38:29 PM
Quote from: Bonjour on May 02, 2011, 07:43:52 PM
Take a shower once in a while.  :TooFunny:

I tried that but it didn't help, actually made it worse.  ::)

BTW, was that your secret weapon this year Ryan??   :whip2:

HC
Title: Re: Gnats & Skeeters ~VIDEO~
Post by: Bonjour on May 02, 2011, 09:49:12 PM
Quote from: Hardcore on May 02, 2011, 09:38:29 PM
Quote from: Bonjour on May 02, 2011, 07:43:52 PM
Take a shower once in a while.  :TooFunny:

I tried that but it didn't help, actually made it worse.  ::)

BTW, was that your secret weapon this year Ryan??   :whip2:

HC
Just don't tell anyone else my secret weapon.  ;D
I have heard that putting a couple bounce fabric softner sheets around your neck and in your shirt pocket helps. Might be worth a try, that looks nasty. I can't stand those biting gnats.
Title: Re: Gnats & Skeeters ~VIDEO~
Post by: BOFF on May 03, 2011, 12:39:15 AM
My Golly that's bad!!

I've been in a few places like that, but it was almost too unbearable to hunt. Usually in really wet areas though.


I'm not so sure a Thermacell would even work on those bugs.



God Bless,
David b.
Title: Re: Gnats & Skeeters ~VIDEO~
Post by: Spellnj3 on May 03, 2011, 11:18:31 AM
We hunt in a swamp and they are all over us, we wouldnt be able to hunt without a thermacell.  Sometimes you can't even take a pee it's so bad.   :o
Title: Re: Gnats & Skeeters ~VIDEO~
Post by: Flydown on May 03, 2011, 11:30:35 AM
Quote from: BOFF on May 03, 2011, 12:39:15 AM
My Golly that's bad!!

I've been in a few places like that, but it was almost too unbearable to hunt. Usually in really wet areas though.


I'm not so sure a Thermacell would even work on those bugs.



God Bless,
David b.

There were 2 Thermacells running in that video, works great on Skeeters but not at all on those gnats. Makes it rough but I can say, if I could still be out there hunting turkeys I would not let those things stop me. ;D
Title: Re: Gnats & Skeeters ~VIDEO~
Post by: tiggere on May 03, 2011, 11:39:48 AM
Get you some of that Sawyers spray and spray everything you own...I get the knats as soon as I sit down but once they land (or try to) they don't like it and leave...after about 3 minutes there are no bugs in sight...I didn't use my Thermacell one time this year
Title: Re: Gnats & Skeeters ~VIDEO~
Post by: Basser69 on May 03, 2011, 11:48:56 AM
The gnats were terrible this year on our lease in central Alabama.