Light'em up boys (and girls, sorry Ann).

We have concluded our 3 continent testing and have determined a fine Cigar does repel them Mossies!!!

Take plenty on your next Safari...The Mosquitos hate'em and the camp folk love'em...

Our Game Scout used one to roll a bunch of cigarettes and was "VERY" happy to do so (good politics to say the least).
A "Win-Win" in my book!

JW

JW

Thanks for the idea JW. I have at least a box full of dried out cigars various people have given me. I dont smoke.

Think I will take them over and give them to the staff. Maybe they will smoke them or roll them into cigarettes thus running off the mosquitos

wow...they repel mosquitos and libs...but i am repeating myself

smoke em' if you got em'

I know black flies will eat you alive if you have just showered and used a scented soap or shampoo.

Long Live Fidel Castro and keep the supplies a comin (-:

Cheers, Peter

If you also add rum to the cigars there will not be a mossy close to you

Any tobacco smoke works well as do some Lions....

i think i will have to test this theory once a week with many kinds of fine cigars to get the propper results tonight a la gloria cubana reserva figurados test.

Since you started a discussion on Cigars I must give you a link to some of the best cigars I have had the pleasure of smoking.

CIGARS

Enjoy

......absolutely true!!

We use them as "hog attractant" here in Texas too!

Namibia 2005
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They work keeping biting stuff away during turkey season, too.

Cigar smoke works for Tsetse flies too. Cigarrete smoke does not.

JPK

They repel insects and attract interns....

Tetsi flies eat cigars and humans, nothing can stop them, not even my .470...but you can catch them and tear off one wing and they can only fly in circles, that works fairly well until someone invades that circle.

I have hunted Tetsis for year, have killed more tetsis than Saeed, my prefered weapon is two attached rubber bands, my best trophies came from the bakkies dashboard, with a few B&C tets from the windows. My highest daily kill was 100 if I recall. That was the day I got 200 bites however.

Tetsis hate me, along with a few A holes who post on this board, but the Tetsis take precidence over the A holes, as they are real.. and painful..

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Tetsis hate me, along with a few A holes who post on this board, but the Tetsis take precidence over the A holes, as they are real.. and painful..

I'd take the Tetsis over the A-holes anyday....you can Kill the Tetsis!!!

JW

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Originally posted by Cunningham:
Since you started a discussion on Cigars I must give you a link to some of the best cigars I have had the pleasure of smoking.

CIGARS

Enjoy

Which of the cigars that they make do you recommend?

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Originally posted by Jaco Human:
If you also add rum to the cigars there will not be a mossy close to you

If you add rum to good cigars the mossies won't touch you because they don't bite the dead.

Any of you smoking gentlemen know what "Ernie Wild's Hut Point Mixture" is?

Saeed,

According to "Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic" By Lennard Bickel, this tobacco substitute was a mixture of tea, coffee, sawdust and "a few spices and herbs".

I guess when you're marooned in Antarctica you have to make do with what you were able to salvage from your ship.

Jim,

That was one of the most amazong stories IO have read.

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Originally posted by darkside:
They repel insects and attract interns....

I stopped smoking ten yrs ago.I nearly smoked myself to death with 4 packs a day.

Fjold, These are two I have really enjoyed. The Maduro being the best. These are from one of the last remaining Cigar makers who came over when Castro took over.

Rothchild Maduro
Nacional

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Originally posted by Jeff Wemmer:
Light'em up boys (and girls, sorry Ann).

We have concluded our 3 continent testing and have determined a fine Cigar does repel them Mossies!!!

Take plenty on your next Safari...The Mosquitos hate'em

JW

JW

It seems mosquitos have more sense than cigar smokers!



I'll stick to deet, thank you!

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Originally posted by Cunningham:
Fjold, These are two I have really enjoyed. The Maduro being the best. These are from one of the last remaining Cigar makers who came over when Castro took over.

Rothchild Maduro
Nacional

Obviously I was being to subtle.

I smoke a good cigar occasionally and someone who puts rum on a good cigar should be killed.

I know I sat in a warthog blind one time with my PH burning Zebra dung. I think he began doing it out of boredom and then we realized it was effective in keeping the flying critters away. In my experience Zebra dung and cigars have roughly the same aromic appeal, so it's not surprising that both are capable repellants.

"aroma appeal?" That's a nice phrase.

Spelled TSETSE. It's Bantu.

I smoke a good cigar occasionally and someone who puts rum on a good cigar should be killed.[/QUOTE]

And what should happen to a president that puts "Monica" on a cigar????

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Originally posted by Bwanna:
I know I sat in a warthog blind one time with my PH burning Zebra dung. I think he began doing it out of boredom and then we realized it was effective in keeping the flying critters away. In my experience Zebra dung and cigars have roughly the same aromic appeal, so it's not surprising that both are capable repellants.

Burning elephant dung - not too dry, not too wet - in a can wired to the bars in the back of the truck works for keeping tsetse flys and mossies away too.

But I prefer to be bitten.

JPK

A pinch or three of Skoal between the cheek and gum cures malaria too.

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Originally posted by mrlexma:
A pinch or three of Skoal between the cheek and gum cures malaria too.

Down here we use a healthy dose of good french-taste cigarettes.

Impossible to resist.

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Originally posted by mrlexma:
A pinch or three of Skoal between the cheek and gum cures malaria too.

Not if Walter has anything to do with it.

We had a friend who chewed tobacco. Walter tried to persuade him to give it up.

He added impala droppings to the half full can of tobacco.

Our friend used it and complained that the heat must be affecting his tobacco.

A couple of days later walter mixed sable droppings with his tobacco.

Our friend started to pull a face each time he put some of the tobacco in his mouth.

Walter "What is the matter, don't you like chewing tobacco any more?"

"I do, but this is starting to taste like shit! It must be the damn heat making it like this. I could not sleep last night because of the heat"

"Does this tin taste better than the one yesterday?

"No, the one I had yesterday was not bad at all. The one I used a couple of days ago wasn't so good, neither is this one!"

"Which one do you prefer, the one from two days ago or this one?"

"I don't know, both taste like shit!"

"I KNOW, but what I want to know is do you prefer impala shit or sable shit?"

"God damn you *&^!@#$%*&^%$#@!"

They had us in fits of laughter. And as usual, Walter put all the blame on me for bringing him back fresh impala and sable droppings!

damn...good story

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Originally posted by Fjold:

quote:

Originally posted by Jaco Human:
If you also add rum to the cigars there will not be a mossy close to you

If you add rum to good cigars the mossies won't touch you because they don't bite the dead.

You must drink the rum and smoke the cigar.

Reminds me of another story regarding fly control. When I was about 12, there was an old fat lady (5'4 and 250) who used to sit in her yard across from a neighborhood business wearing a filthy dress with her knees spread apart. Some of the old men were disgusted, and one said something about it, the business owner replied she sat that way to keep the flies off her face!

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Originally posted by mrlexma:
A pinch or three of Skoal between the cheek and gum cures malaria too.

But how did you know? (that it works for me?)

JPK

JPK, I just know a lot of things. I can't help it.

Although I must admit that I had never heard of Walter's evil concoction before.

Given the fecal content, I think one would have to burn it, before chewing it, in order to get the anti-malarial effect.

I know that if I ever pulled a stunt like that, after I stopped laughing, I would be looking over my shoulder for a very long time - worrying about my victim's revenge!

Works for mosquitos in the Top End of Oz too for this trio of hooligan buffalo hunters.