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It's amazing how it just forms a little bubble around you. The dome. Does anyone use the dark earth scent pads? I use those. Smells something similar to compost. Or mushrooms. Worked like a charm. I also go with a double barrier. Don't leave home without the bug spray. With both working in my corner the nippers stayed at bay.
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I got the earth scented ones. I don't really see the point, as the original isn't supposed to smell to animals (doubt it). the one thing I do like about the earth scent is you can tell its running out when the scent is less strong, but another good indicator of the pad running out is that the skeeters start moving closer.
I wont go turkey hunting without one. However I am on my third unit, they keep not lighting for me after a while. but the company will take them back for life, it is just that I keep forgetting to send them back..
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OMG everybody is using thoes. Well where I come from "REAL MEN" just ignore the bugs. When I was a kid in the backwoods of Miramichi mosquitoes were as big as bats, heck sometimes they attacked the bats.:silly:
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Either you folks all have stock options in Thermacell, or the mosquitoes here in Burnt River are a totally new inbred species that like the repellant. I just hit Crappy Tire and picked up a Thermacell. A total, dismal failure. It's going back to the store tomorrow. About as useful as teats on a boar-pig. Had it smoking away for more than 60 mins and it pretty much did jack. Completely perfect conditions with a 1kph wind, and it would barely clear a 3X3 foot area. We still got eaten alive. Four of us in lawnchairs within 3 feet of it, and we saw pretty much 95% of the swarm that was in the untreated area. Both a citronella candle, and a 30 cent Pic coil does a better job. It's expensive to purchase, expensive to operate, and it's a POS. I'll go back to my can of Deep Woods.
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Sounds like the one you got might have been faulty? We're going out for turkey the last time tomorrow. Kinda like going into the third period and being down 5 to 1. The Thermacell has not been needed yet but it will be this time as it will be T-shirt weather and the bugs will be hungry.
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I'll give it one more try before returning it. I looked up more info on it, and it's the same allethrin that's in pic coils, but 10X stronger (22%) than the coil. It's gotta work, as I do see some relief with the coils. I've got to pile firewood today down in our swamp, and you can hear the swamp humming from the house! . I'll do a "before and after" test with it. Has anybody done refilling like you see on YouTube - install refill nipple on butane cylinder base so bottles can easily be refilled? There also lots on re-using the pads. Looks like allethrin is not available , so you use permithrin from the horse tack store. Do a 6:1 dilution of permithrin to water (apparently you need the water for vaporization of the permithrin), then use an old Visine bottle to add 8 drops to an old pad. The one guy adds two drops of food colour to the solution, so it has the same colour change when the pad is exhausted. I see that permithrin is the chem used in most tick repellants, so it has potential in repelling them too. Anyone had experience doing the home refill thing? One guy refills his own butane bottles, then just uses Pic coils - breaks them into little pieces and puts them onto the heating plate, through the plastic vents. It's only 10% the allethrin that a pad has, so it prob. wouldn't be as effective.
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Nope, haven't tried refilling yet but I will now! Princess Auto sometimes has the unit and refill kits on for pretty cheap relative to Canadian Tire. I'll stop at the co-op tomorrow on my way back from the turkey quest and see if they have permithrin. Say Fenelon, you seeing any turkeys around? I've been hunting the Ganaraska and Kawartha areas and have seen nothing more than two hens in a ditch.
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Both our deer and our turkeys took a pounding this past winter. Based on the flock sizes I saw around Burnt River in November, vs. in early April, I'd estimate that we lost 75% of our birds. I'd been watching two big flocks all fall where I trap. One flock of 33 birds in late December, was down to 6 by April 10th. A second flock of 27 had 11 by April. Things seem better south of Cameron. They had a much easier winter, even though it's only 20 mins. south. I didn't even fill my tag this year. Wish the MNR would drop the stupid fall hunt. It may be a good idea in southern areas with high densities and crop predation, but it's bad management up here in the northern area of WMU 75. This year is a perfect example. We just lost three quarters of our birds this past winter, and you're still allowed to shoot hens in the fall. Stupid is as stupid does.
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Thanks, if nothing else, this helps verify I haven't completely lost my touch! I'm posting this on Turkey hunting... would you believe a Turkey walking down my street last Monday? Downtown Pickering. What's up with that?
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Buy your butane refills at Shoppers not a sporting goods store. The butane curling irons use the same cartridge and you'll pay much less.