How does /k/ guard themselves from and treat chigger bites when

>>34481085
Deep woods off

>>34481085
lmao what a pussy

>>34481085
This seems more /out/, but I typically make sure to not sit or lay my bare skin in the grass.

>>34481085
I live on the coast, so the first thing I do is go for 15 minute soak in the saltwater. This kills them and soothes the bites.

>>34481097
Also this. Make sure you hit boots and pants, and make sure you tuck your pants into your boots.

>>34481097
This, as well as treating clothing with permethrin. Wear long pants and limit the avenues by which bugs can get into your clothing.

t. been working mosquito control this summer

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>>34481085

First be a man and wear long pants. IDGAF how hot it is. Second get some of this shit:

https://www.amazon.com/Permethrin-SFR-32-oz-Bottle/dp/B003IMO3I2

Mix 1.7ounces to a gallon of water. Immerse your field clothes including socks, gloves, hats etc. Hang to dry. Enjoy 45days of no ticks, chiggers or any other fucking thing. Also you can put any remaining mixed solution in a spray bottle and treat damn near anything you like.

>>34481123
I was wearing thick jeans and boots with long socks. Had to walk through a lot of briars
>>34481112
Did not remember to tuck them though

>>34481123
>not letting your balls breathe in 2017

>>34481150
Nylon-type outdoor pants treated with permethrin + going commando = no bugs and comfy balls.

>t. Alabamian

>>34481115
please come down my street

t. rural Floridian

Not from chiggerland so not sure if its the same but my legs are virtually tick proof when out and about:

I use SPOSN gorka pants which have a second inner tube coming from near the base of ther pant legs which goes snug against your ankles and has straps which wrap under your feet inside your boots which hold them down in place... so for a tick to get me it needs to go up into my boot, down to the top of my foot and under the inner sleeve up to my leg which... is covered with a 1st layer synthetic pair of full length underpants which are tucked into my socks! so it can either go up to my abdomen where a belt is creating a decent seal between my outer and under pants and under shirt which is tucked in the under pants - or back down again inside the sock to get to my ankles


basically the only parts of my body with crawl-in access to my sweet man flesh are the collar and to some extent the sleeves

>>34481085
Dryer sheets in pockets. Also rub legs with dryer sheets.

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>>34481175
>Gorka pants

dude same here, gorka pants are the bomb for hikig, the innet sleeve is awsome, and the pants are comfy.

what gorka do you have? is it a camo one?

i have a normal bars gorka 4

>>34481208
I first got Gorka 4 from BARS which doesn't have the inner sleeve at the ankles for me! (but does have a foot strap/stirrup?) the pair i wear most now is Gorka E with Autumn Partisan from SSO/SPOSN

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>>34481175
>>34481208
Gorka is the best

>>34481123
>Enjoy 45days of no ticks
Thanks for the info, I'll try that, I'm on war with these bastards.

>>34481166
How do you combat swamp ass tho?

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http://www.bogleech.com/ticks.html

It's time to make sweet love to ticks!

>>34481097
Forest service emplyee here, I personally swear by Off Deepwoods III

>>34481576
not him but probaly monkeybutt powder.

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>>34481085
>literally rubbing yourself with a dry towel
Congrats fagt

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Chigga what
Chigga. Who

>>34481839
Chigga boo chigga boo
Where are you?

>>34481576
Gold bond powder. Tough old balls use the green container. Young weak balls use the yellow. If you're gonna be out for more than a day then you also need baby wipes and a re-application of powder.

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>>34481123
I use that as a generic space spray for killing bugs... The concentration you suggest for clothes seems a little high... I'd probably go down to the livestock application dilution. We use this dog spray stuff from tractor supply for riparian field work. It keeps mosquito away too...

>>34482060
I really need to get some of that spray.. We wear waders all day and it gets pretty bad once it hits 100...

>>34482187
Your right I brainfarted... use .7ounces to one gallon. NOT 1.7!

>>34482304
Also keep your cats away from the wet liquid. It's fine once it has dried but toxic to kittehs as a liquid.

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>>34481123
>be a man and wear long pants
>implying

>>34481174
You best be willing to pay

>>34482304
You made me go look this shit up. You were right the first time. 1 and 2/3 Oz of 36.8& solution in a gallon is .5% which is the same concentration as the sawyer brand pre-mixed spray. So 1.7oz to a gallon is spot on for treating clothes.

>>34481208
>>34481239
I'm getting my a gorka 3 from greyshop soon soon. How is it in say 90F degree summer weather? Baffle effect actually real and keep you cool?

>>34481085
Where panty hose, the ticks,chigger, and leaches can not get through them.

>>34481085
get some powdered sulphur and dump it in an old sock. store it in a plastic bag. take it out and dust your shoes and pants below the knee.

you will never be bothered by them again and you don't have to spray carcinogens on your clothes. google deet.

>>34481123
>be a man wear pants

do i have to be a retard in todays society to be considered a man?

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>>34481085
I carry a .22 for chiggers and similar pests.

Old Mexican remedy we use in South Texas:

Put clear nail polish on chigger bites. Works amazingly well. Has to be clear.

>>34482060
>green on your gentleman vegetables
I don't even...

>>34481085
Before you go venture innawoods, like a Rhodesian cuck, spray-on suncreen then dab food grade DE om your body just avoid ears, eyes, nose. MAKE SURE IT IS FOOD GRADE. Then, dab some in your socks and shoes. Fuck Chiggers -- also make sure they are not actually digging or latching on to you. I would go see a dermatologist and or buy some Dimantoysleidozcide or w/e they call it off the deep-web, etc. Oh and for the itch get hydrocortisone or aloe vera.

>>34481123
This shit also causes 9 kinds of Cancer, so I wouldn't put it on my skin

Avon Skin-so-soft does the same thing and is non toxic

For prevention, I agree with the sulphur powder. It keeps everything away. For treatment, I use rubbing alcohol applied liberally to the area.

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>>34484456
florida approved

>>34481085
My dad always treated chigger bites with gasoline. Worked really well.

>>34484456
>9 kinds of Cancer
Link? or do you work in the lyme disease industry?

>>34481085
Pants + Permethrin

>>34481634
Nah it's calamine lotion

>>34483620
I feel like this is a trick.

Chiggers bites can be treated with clear nail polish since it suffocates them.

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>>34481085
move to a good state

>>34481085
I've heard guys say blousing your boots with flea collars works, but the only surefire way I personally know of is to stay the hell away from Ft. Hood.

>>34482434
Maybe that is why they lost?

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>>34481268
>Gorka is the best

I agree.

>>34483732
>there are people who won't use the green bottle on their junk

Why even bother?

According to Les Stroud, you just get bitten so fucking much that you build up an immunity and you stop getting inflammation from the bug bites.
Doesn't mean it doesn't hurt, but at least it doesn't get itchy as fuck.
That guy was doing it for decades though.

I put deodorant on mine. I remember reading that it's the contact with air that cause the irritation and something like that to keep the bite from breathing keeps it from itching. Also wear boxers or no underwear at all as they like getting where clothes hug you tight it seems, so if you're wearing briefs your groin will get bitten up. Make them settle for your socks. That shit all works for me at least.

DDT

>>34481987
Out here in the wood pile a watchin you

>>34481085
Napalm or Agent Orange.
>If there's no woods, there's no insects.

>>34482434
I wish that were me

>>34481085
>How does /k/ guard themselves from and treat chigger bites when they're innawoods?
Wear proper clothes (like Gorka), spray your open body parts.

i appreciate this thread. As an immigrant from a white country without ticks, we went to my buddy's lakehouse over july 4th for boating/hiking/kayaking and i've never really even had to bother about ticks, or even heard of chiggers before then (they sound like niggers so must be bad), so taking heed of the advice for products in this bredd. Also, are those mesh oversuits just a meme or useful? ticks are freeloading communists tee bee H.