The Full Buck Moon is waning, but it is still lighting up the night sky brightly. August is here, and squirrel season is only fifteen days away. Soon trail cameras will not be the only excuse for heading into the woods.
I went to the woods several times last month to place trail camera's. The heat and humidity were both bad, and the chiggers were, too. The good news is the mature ticks are starting to decrease in number, and the turkey ticks haven't come out yet. But, I'm sure they will be out in force for the squirrel season opener. I read an article several years ago from a wildlife biologist declaring these miserable things as immature deer ticks. Some people claim they are their own seperate species, but whatever they are you had better be prepared to deal with them from now until the first frost. I know a lot of hunters who simply refuse to go into the woods anymore until the first frost. In a sense I'm glad I have learned to deal with them, or at least tolerate them, but I know I will be spending plenty of time the next couple of months scratching the skin off my ankles.
My brother has devised his own way of dealing with them. He heads into the woods with his shotgun, wearing nothing more than sandals, and a loose fitting pair of joggers shorts. He throws a cooler bag of cheap beer over his shoulder and heads to the hickory grove. Every half hour or so he doses himself with a beer. He claims the beer causes the turkey ticks to get drunk, and then all he has to do is brush them off. I have to admit he is able to stay in the woods a lot longer than me, and he does a whole lot less scratching, too, though his aim seems to be a little off since he started this turkey tick prevention trick.
Look close at the second picture, there are a couple of nice bucks.
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