I shot a crotch horn with my bow here in upstate NY on friday night. We found one tick on him on the surface when we got back with him. He hung for roughly 36 hours and this afternoon we dropped him off to be made into sausage etc and when we loaded him in the truck, we couldn't believe the amount of ticks. We counted 15, 14 of which came from one side of his head, up by his ear. I know some areas of the country have them bad like this every year, but that is unheard of for here. If we saw 2 on them in years passed, that was alot. We had heard that they were going to be bad this year with the spring we had, but that was crazy. I ended up having one crawling up my arm from loading him. I got bit by one last summer while checking trail cameras but found it quick enough that it didn't get far in. Of all things in the woods, ticks worry me the most and I don't like messing with them.
