Posted: 7/7/2006 7:55:31 PM EDT
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What did the indians/frontier people do to combat chigers?? I know bleech does them in ..... I'm just wondering what they used to keep from going insane.... |
God Damn man, I didn't know it was a "tech" forum, guess I had better vacate the premisess, because I have yet to see any thread lately that warrented a really serious answer.  |
I apologize because it's another smart-ass response... But I think the real answer is the indians and frontier people were way less wussy then we are today and had bigger problems to worry about... |
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Scott is right. My great grandpa made the run in 1889, had a knot over one eye where somenone put a pistol ball into his head. The old fart was always cutting a plug of tobacco and spitting. When we were really young, 5 and 6 yo, we would spend the night at my great, grand parents house. We slept on a screened in back porch, close to the out house. Every morning the old man would get up, step out the door of the porch, fart and piss like a bay mule. Like Soctt said, we think we are tough.....we can't hold a candle to the old timers. And use an insect repellant before you go out into the woods! I ain't bSing about that. The old retired Marine colonel down the road from me got tick fever last summer. He doesn't have a lot of trees on his place, mostly grass. SO USE INSECT REPELLANT! |
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I used two difrent kinds of insect repellant...... I had 0 ticks 0 mesquitos while others had issues with both that werent using the same repellant i was... I have no doubts that the old timers were tougher than me...... but i don't buy into they didn't do anything about it....... I've got way over 60 bites (stoped counting) in 5 days ...... if you had to live in that all the time you would figure out something Just an example and indian girl i used to fool around with showed me a plant (for the life of me cant remember the name) that was like ambasol you chewed on it and it made your mouth numb ...... she said they used it for tooth aches or teething babies.... |
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I've got insect repellant in the truck, use it everytime I hit the back pasture on my place. Haven't got hit by chiggers yet! If it's on your place, it might be a good idea to spray the yard! Them friggin' chigger bites under socks inside a boot makes for a miserable work day! |
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Well a few bucks at the drugstore will buy you a little bottle of Chigarid. For me the little bottle is a lifetime supply. Anyway a little dab of that where it itches and they go away pretty fast. It's pretty close to instant relief. Another plus is you could probably use any leftover Chigarid to seal primers on your hunting ammo. |
| When I lived in the woods in MO for a month in the summer we smoked lots of tobacco and ate raw garlic cloves, raw onion/onion weed, and garlic extract caps. seemed to help. supposedly critters don't want to bite you if you have stuff like that radiating from your pores. |