I would think insect protection is mandatory during a varmint safari. If so, what products do you use?

Thank you.

Buliwyf

Out here in California and when I'm in Wyoming, I don't use any.

Fjold: I was Prairie Doggin one year in Wyoming and I had not used any "bug spray" or insect repellent. I got back to my home in Seattle and I became very ill!
VERY ill!
Sensationally ill!
I hurt.
I was sick.
I had pains on my pains!
My guts hurt.
I was dizzy, feverish, nauseous and had very bad headaches.
Then on about the 6th day of my ordeal I saw the large red dots (spots) appearing on the skin on my hands and face!
Then, I rushed to the Doctor!
There are only two diseases that cause dots to appear on your hands and face (only!) one is Syphyllis and the other is Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever!
I had Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and by then it was to late to do anything about it!
The Doctor looked at me, directly, and said "You stupid ass - pain, is NOT a virtue"!
This disease also causes all manner of after effects including joint pains (destruction?) that lasts forever and damage to internal organs.
It is also fatal in some people!
Lesson learned.
If one of those red dots (spots!) appears in the pupil of your eye you will be blinded!
I had one red dot in the "white" of my eye. I came that close to being blinded in that eye!
Lesson learned!
I always spray myself down (clothing and exposed skin) with flea and tick killer. I also wear blousing straps on my long pant cuffs to keep bugs from crawling easily up there.
I use the bug spray with Deet in it, and knock on wood, I have not been troubled much since then with ticks or fleas.
I had no ticks on me so I got it from a "flea" I am sure. From a Prairie Dog Town right on the Montana, Wyoming border.
Then a few years after my incident there were two "poachers" that killed a Bobcat near there (out of season in Montana at that time!) and they took the Bobcat to Sheridan, Wyoming where they originally told the Taxidermist and others it had been killed in Wyoming. They gave it to the Taxidermist who began work on it! The Taxidermist was DEAD a few days later from "The Plague"!
Another flea borne disease!
The authorities investigated and found out the truth about the Bobcats real origin. Luckily they all three were not killt.
I ALWAYS spray down with the bug killer when on Safari.
And I do prefer the spray on Deet type to the rub on oil type.
Better safe than sorry.
By the way - even though its called Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever there are many more cases per year back east in the Applalachians than in the Rocky Mountains!
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

I guess because I'm always in Wyoming after the first frost I've never seen the problem there. On all the antelope and coyotes I've taken there I've never seen a flea or tick. I guess I've been lucky.

We have pnuemonic and bubonic plague here also but we don't ever touch the ground squirrels that we shoot.