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05-20-2009 , 10:56 PM

ludacris

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I got eaten alive tonight. Coleman's insect repellent w/ 15% deet did nothing to deter the little bastards. What do you guys do to keep these things away?

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05-20-2009 , 11:03 PM

getitfixed

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Absorbine Jr. ftw

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05-20-2009 , 11:22 PM

CheckRaise

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i'm always smoking something, seems to work well

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05-20-2009 , 11:51 PM

JTrout

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Fabric softener sheets work somewhat.
Also skin-so-soft.

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05-21-2009 , 12:12 AM

Ineedaride2

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Originally Posted by JTrout

Fabric softener sheets work somewhat.
Also skin-so-soft.

Haven't had a whole lot of luck with fabric softener sheets, but I've been amazed by Skin So Soft. And I was a skeptic.

BTW, I'm talking about regular old Georgia gnats, not the run-you-off-the-beach black gnats. Have no clue about those.

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05-21-2009 , 03:32 AM

fatshaft

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fart constantly

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05-21-2009 , 05:57 PM

ludacris

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ordered 3 bottles of skin so soft. god i feel like a woman.

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05-21-2009 , 09:13 PM

hendrix23

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3 Iron. Might as well use it for something.

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05-22-2009 , 01:20 AM

SonOfWestwood

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Which skin so soft product are all of you talking about? I just did a search and several items came up (bath oil, body lotion, shower gel, and even one noted as bug guard).

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05-22-2009 , 09:28 AM

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Ineedaride2

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I don't -have- any, I just use it when other guys in my group are carrying it.

That said, the kind they have is a spray bottle, if that helps any.

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05-22-2009 , 11:28 AM

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JavaNut

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Originally Posted by SonOfWestwood

Which skin so soft product are all of you talking about? I just did a search and several items came up (bath oil, body lotion, shower gel, and even one noted as bug guard).

You are trying to level people, right?

Ineedaride2, if you go down to the store to get something to keep gnats away, you know the name of the company but not the product name. And you have the above choices, would you go for the shower gel?

Please insert picture of woman on millionaire that thinks an elephant is bigger than the moon.

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05-22-2009 , 11:30 AM

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iThinman

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shower

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05-22-2009 , 11:48 AM

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Ineedaride2

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Originally Posted by JavaNut

Gnat deflection is only my secondary goal. I'm really going for the silky smooth skin.

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05-24-2009 , 11:52 PM

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SonOfWestwood

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Originally Posted by JavaNut

You are trying to level people, right?

Yeah, okay, I know, it sounds stupid that I listed bug guard there. I should have noted that, in my searching, I found this:

http://www.snopes.com/oldwives/skeeters.asp

which notes that the bug repellent version of the Skin So Soft didn't do particularly well in tests. So, I was wondering if it's one of the other products that people here are using, and have found effective.

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05-25-2009 , 12:57 AM

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SACK99

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Mostly just stay out of Georgia.

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05-26-2009 , 01:31 AM

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DeezNuts

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I get eaten alive when I play around the mountains in LA. I would like some help on this problem too.

The worst is when they get in my ears.

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05-26-2009 , 04:50 PM

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ClubChamp04

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Originally Posted by ludacris

I got eaten alive tonight. Coleman's insect repellent w/ 15% deet did nothing to deter the little bastards. What do you guys do to keep these things away?

What's wrong with the 100% deet stuff? I think the OFF deepwoods version has it. It's probably not great to put directly on your skin regularly, so you can spray some on your hat, shirt and shorts and maybe a touch on your skin.

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05-29-2009 , 12:23 AM

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DrOldSchool

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Has anyone tried this Off Clip on thing? It says its for mosquitos but I wonder if it works for any bugs?

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04-11-2010 , 02:33 PM

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2bagolfer

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I use vanilla and water spray; works for a while. I want to try a flame thrower/hat. Can anybody help????

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04-12-2010 , 09:14 AM

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Ineedaride2

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Played all weekend, and I'm sad to say that this will probably be the last weekend until fall where gnats were not an issue.

Here comes 6 months of swarming hell.

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04-12-2010 , 01:42 PM

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ReidLockhart

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Learning to play golf on the Jersey Shore around the marshes (Seaview, Brigantine, Stone Harbor, etc in particular if anyone's familiar) was terrible. I would actually NOT practice or play sometimes due to the annoyance factor involved with gnats. Mosquitos and greenheads I can deal with...even the pine/strawberry flies (whatever they're called).

Go 10 minutes inland to Blue Heron Pines and there's not one bug on the course outside of a few areas around some water on the course. We didn't even carry bug-spray in the golf shop when I worked there.

My solution was normally just to stay in. I HATE bugs more than I LOVE golf I guess =P

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04-13-2010 , 11:56 AM

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Dominic

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GRowing up in the South, Skin So Soft was the go-to....and it was the body lotion we used that came in a spray pump...they only added the bug guard after they realized what every one was using their product for.

Seriously, Skin So Soft is like magic...keeps all the noseeums away.

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04-14-2010 , 10:57 AM

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varsity629

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Skin So Soft AND Off...I use them together when it gets real bad on some of the State Park courses I play.

Definitely get a spray bottle though...I cant see putting it on my hands and then continuing to play.

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