Thermacell or bug spray?

[FullChoke]

What do you like to use to keep the bugs from turning you into a Denny's Buffet? What bugs are the worst where you hunt?

FC

[PureGold]

I use a thermacell for the skeeters!

However, a great product called Sawyers Duranon (In a tall yellow&black aerosol can) is great for ticks and chiggers.

Just spray your clothes in a well ventilated area they day before you hunt and let the stuff dry and they say that it will last for a few weeks even if you wash your clothes. The stuff flies of our shelves here in NC!

Good Luck!

[njdevilsb]

We really don't have a big problem with bugs.  Mosquitoes sometimes get bad if it's a real muggy morning.  I have thought about picking up a Thermacell though because they can get bad.  We have a wide variety of weather here in May sometimes.  Last year, it was snowing on us one morning.  We actually did hear a gobble, though.

[timbrhuntr]

Love my thermacell. I also spray my clothing each year with the Sawyers with permethrin.

[jakesdad]

THERMACELL!!!!!!!

[msgobblergetter]

Thermacell hands down... I try to stay away from bug sprays because most of the best sprays contain deet.  I got some deep woods off overspray on a camo finish gun one time and it smeared the finish and will fade synthetics.  So thermacell has been a life saver for me.

[DocHolliday]

Thermacell

[surehuntsalot]

still old schooling it

bug spray here
old habits are hard to break

[FullChoke]

Just for the record, I own a Thermacell, but bring it only about half the time. If it still early in the season and I'm hunting upland areas, I'll just give a quick spray of Deep Woods Off. If I am hunting creek bottoms or other buggy places, I'll bring it. I hunted Arkansas last year and could not believe the swarms of ticks that I would pick up every day. For that I will go with a Permethrine treatment for pants and shirt.

FC

[CB on the run]

  Both. A my friend's thermacell cost me a bird one day.  We were running and gunning around a broken tract of state land about an hour before the 12 noon deadline when I struck a hot bird.  We hastily set up and the bird gobbled about 50 yards away just out of sight as my buddy is snapping his thermacell for all he's worth because we're on the edge of a little swamp and getting eaten alive.  He was concentrating on the thermacell so much he argued with me that the bird was that close afterwards.  I never saw that bird and we never heard it again that season, at least in that area.

CB

[paladin]

I use that yellow tick repellant....do not spray it on skin. Like they said it is clothing treatment.
I wear a bug suit and use off and a therme cell.  I fire mine up in the morning and it starts better later.
I also slowly click it rather than "click click click click" to avoid scaring birds.

[doublebeard]

THERMACELL ALL THE WAY!!! Don't care for the smoke but the results are worth it.

[Gobblers_nightmare]

I used the Cutter with picaridin last spring season, for the first time, and it worked great.    It has very little scent, doesn't feel hot on my skin like DEET does, and it doesn't melt plastic.
Then I gave it the real test, late June frog gigging in a swamp.  It gave me great protection, didn't even have the little buggers swarming around me like my buddy,  who was using DEET.
Permethrin in vital, too.  Not having to worry about ticks has made turkey season so much more fun.