Anybody have any experience with these ? I hunt in a marsh area and early season is sometimes really....interesting. Any words of advice ?
ChuckC
The thermacells are the real deal!! They work! Jr.
best 25.oo you can spend around here.
"nervousness is sitting in your stand in the swamp,
its only 5:30 and you start hearing your thermocell sputter"
THe skeeters here are so bad at times that without a TC that you cant hear a deer walk up behind you.
And they have almost no less odor compared to Deet.
Best thing since sliced bread as far as we're concerned...JC doesn't hunt without his. When flying to a hunt he always makes sure he knows where the nearest Wal-Mart is so he can pick up the TC canisters on the way to the hunt location. He would probably sacrifice any of his hunting gear to save his thermocell....well, not his bow... :D
I have to disagree, I bought one and it didn't work very well at all....
I've had great luck with mine. Money well spent.
QuoteOriginally posted by Guss:
The thermacells are the real deal!! They work! Jr.
I agree.
I bought one at Wally World and tried it out in the front swing. Set with my wife -who mosquitos love- we were not bothered.
They work for me
I quit buying Deet altogether. Mounted the thermacell right on my quiver.
Be advised: they only work on mosquitos. gnats and blackflies ignore them.
I tested one last bow season. Went in without any bug spray and was getting eat up... stopped and turned on the thermacell and within 5 minutes the bugs left me alone. It takes a little time to work and does better in a no or low wind scenario... But it worked for me.
I used one last fall and it did OK. I don't know what your bugs are like, but I would say that it got rid of about half the mosquitos which brought the total to about 250,000 flying around me. I don't leave home without the MUSKOL "red can" . Mark
Don't leave home without it!
Kpaul
With bug spray, the skeeters my not be biting, but they are still buzzing all around your face...with the T-cell they are GONE. Condersidering all the junk that is for sale, this is one item that actually works AND is worth the price.
I LOVE mine...I wont hunt without one. It doesn't bother the deer at all either. I watched a nice lil 4pt feed under my stand for 30 mimnutes last year and never knew I was up there.
Mosquitos - Yes :thumbsup:
Chiggers, ticks, flies - No :mad:
Love it!!!!
Believe me...if it works on our Pope and Young Missouri River skeeters, it'll work ANYWHERE!!!! Those skeeters are big enuff to take the hat off'n yo head, and bite ya there!!!!! Best money I ever spent, I even bought a second one!
they are AWESOME at keeping bugs off ya!!!!!!
I have to agree with everyone here. The best money I've spent in a long time.
Good Stuff, they create a NO-FLY zone for the little winged devils.
The South Texas gnats I encountered must have had (NBC) Nuclear-Biological-Chemical mask because it did'nt work on them.
excellent, thanks. Guess I will be looking for one in a bit. Are they safe if I use one in a blind (enclosed space ) ?
ChuckC
I really like mine. It works very well, although it might "fumigate" you in a blind. The literature says not to use it in an enclosed space.
It doesn't get much worse than the Florida swamps in September for Skeets. Thermacell is GREAT for keeping them away. Always have a spare fuel cannister and scent pad. You will know when you run out of fuel-you start hearing the buzz.Haven't been bit in years and I am now deet free for 3 years.
When I was in Saskatchewan where their national bird is mosquito it worked beautifully.If you had to walk out of the bush 2 miles they would bleed you to death.The guys at bear camp laughed at me until they saw me enjoying my time on stand with no headnet or gloves and I asked them "are the skeets bad?".
Works like a charm. To answer your question about using it in a blind, if I remember right, they warn against using it indoors or in enclosed areas...better check that one out.
KPC
How long will they last on one fill-up if used continously?
took one into a bar..within minutes I had the whole place to myself...
Thermacell is the way to go for mosquitos! I haven't used deet for 2 years.
For ticks, chiggers, flies, and gnats, I use the Bugskinz from Cabelas.
With this combo, I don't worry about biting insects at all. I haven't had a ants,tick,chigger, fly, or gnat bite in the 4 years I have used the Bugskins(Cabelas version)/Rhinoskins(Basspro version).
But I haven't tested them on the dredded FIRE ANTS. They are the Devil!
Aw I can't wait. I have been messing with early season deer in this marsh for a lot of years and DREAD the skeeters. There are good years and bad years and when it is bad, as was said above..you can hardly hear the deer for the skeeters and you can watch hordes of them working their way up your body looking for an entry point.
On the plus side though...opening week usually means the Sandhill Cranes are gathering for their migration, with numbers anywhere from maybe ten to fifteen birds, up to the hundreds.
When they return to the marshes in the evenings, they yell at eash other and are so loud you cannot hear anything else. Family groups already on the ground scream at the approaching groups and the fliers scream back and circle the marsh many times before landing. It is truly an awesome time. I put up with the skeeters mainly to see and hear that.
ChuckC
I always use mine and keep extra tanks and pads.
They are great.
I've hunted in the swamps of GA and FL....and I was AMAZED at how well they worked.
I remember one time I had to walk to my stand with a yard of polar fleece wrapped around my head the skeeters were so bad......turned on the thermacell when I got in my stand and 5 minutes later......there were none. That was my 1st experience.
If you got one that didn't work, then you bought a dud.....or your pads were left in the hot sun for too long.
The best testimony I've ever heard was one of my friends said he'd rather leave his bow in the truck that his thermacell.
Mine worked grea last fall for Deer and this Spring for Turkeys.
Wondering if anyone else has experienced this though. When I first put in a new blue repellant pad it takes a bit longer for it to work well. Seems it has to "burn" until it start turning a little white before it really starts to repel the Minnesota State Bird (Da Skeeter)?