Well now, since I wrote of my first impressions of the EAT last week, we've had purpose-designed conditions for testing any repellant; from scorching hot and dry to very high humidity and windstill and heavy and thundery to sharp showers and longer periods of fairly heavy rain. I've walked about 15 miles a day as I normally do, but I've done it in a pair of approach shoes (trainer-type thingys) and no socks and an army surplus wicking t-shirt with short sleeves - I've not been able to go about the woods with this much skin exposed for years because of the biting ones and it's been a real eye-opener................
As some of you will know from earlier posts, I spend a great deal of time with horses each day, and I've worn the above outfit for this as well; the ground I walk over is very varied but mostly with a heavy covering of the fern (bracken) and heavily populated with various species of deer, plenty of wild pig and fox, and much of the open ground is sheep pasture - it's usual for me to take 2 or 3 ticks off Mollydog on a daily basis and 6 - 8 from myself a week, and that's going about with boots gaiters and long sleeves.
Besides the ticks, horseflies, midges and mossies have been the bane of my life, a very real misery. When I started to use the SSMR this was to a great extent ameliorated and made life much more bearable, pleasant even, but when I got the EAT to trial I stopped using it (SSMR) in order to get a good idea of the new stuff on it's own.............it's much easier to apply and control exactly how much of it goes where and I don't find it unpleasant at all, EXCEPT: if you have a trace of it on your fingers and transfer it to your mouth by way of food, drink or a smoke, it really is vile!............But your fingers are the one place you don't need it so just wipe/wash hands after application; other than that the carrying and applying of it are easy and convenient. I also found I didn't need to apply it more than three times a day.
During this period I have had 3 nights out, using a stove rather than a good big fire, and up untill 2 days ago, I had no ticks on me and not a single bite ............I can't remember the last time I had a run like that free of the critters . The last two days and one night out, I've left the bottom part of my left leg and my left arm below the elbow without the EAT, and I'm covered in bites from all sorts on those parts, came home at 6 am today and had a shower, no ticks, then put the oil on completely again, covering everything. I've been in the woods since with a pair of young horses I'm doing and I've not had a fresh bite all day.............
Chris the Cat has it dead right, in my view; it's not just that they're not biting me, they're not landing on me and as a wearer of glasses, this is a very great thing - no more swiping my glasses onto the ground and getting them filthy from taking them on and off to clear the little fekks from under them.
This EAT oil has made a huge difference to my summer and I just couldn't praise it highly enough, very highly recommended on my experience of it so far...........Thanks for getting it to me,.........atb mac
As some of you will know from earlier posts, I spend a great deal of time with horses each day, and I've worn the above outfit for this as well; the ground I walk over is very varied but mostly with a heavy covering of the fern (bracken) and heavily populated with various species of deer, plenty of wild pig and fox, and much of the open ground is sheep pasture - it's usual for me to take 2 or 3 ticks off Mollydog on a daily basis and 6 - 8 from myself a week, and that's going about with boots gaiters and long sleeves.
Besides the ticks, horseflies, midges and mossies have been the bane of my life, a very real misery. When I started to use the SSMR this was to a great extent ameliorated and made life much more bearable, pleasant even, but when I got the EAT to trial I stopped using it (SSMR) in order to get a good idea of the new stuff on it's own.............it's much easier to apply and control exactly how much of it goes where and I don't find it unpleasant at all, EXCEPT: if you have a trace of it on your fingers and transfer it to your mouth by way of food, drink or a smoke, it really is vile!............But your fingers are the one place you don't need it so just wipe/wash hands after application; other than that the carrying and applying of it are easy and convenient. I also found I didn't need to apply it more than three times a day.
During this period I have had 3 nights out, using a stove rather than a good big fire, and up untill 2 days ago, I had no ticks on me and not a single bite ............I can't remember the last time I had a run like that free of the critters . The last two days and one night out, I've left the bottom part of my left leg and my left arm below the elbow without the EAT, and I'm covered in bites from all sorts on those parts, came home at 6 am today and had a shower, no ticks, then put the oil on completely again, covering everything. I've been in the woods since with a pair of young horses I'm doing and I've not had a fresh bite all day.............
Chris the Cat has it dead right, in my view; it's not just that they're not biting me, they're not landing on me and as a wearer of glasses, this is a very great thing - no more swiping my glasses onto the ground and getting them filthy from taking them on and off to clear the little fekks from under them.
This EAT oil has made a huge difference to my summer and I just couldn't praise it highly enough, very highly recommended on my experience of it so far...........Thanks for getting it to me,.........atb mac
and carried on but another three calls i knew something was wrong so to cut a long story short i ended up heading back to yorkshire to use the dog to track a roe buck and spent the next morning in a woodland in yorkshire after a long drive through the night i headed out onto the ground first light and set the dog on the trail.
