In order to participate in the GunBroker Member forums, you must be logged in with your GunBroker.com account. Click the sign-in button at the top right of the forums page to get connected.

Bitten by some Critter ?????????

96harley96harley Member Posts: 3,992 ✭✭
edited August 2003 in General Discussion
I was standing outside and felt something on my neck. I took a swat at it and I felt a dull sting. Took a second swat and another dull sting. Finally knocked the thing off my shoulder into the grass where the last I saw was the black and white stripes on it's butt.

Within the next few hours a blister formed. I asked one of the guys on the range to take a look at it. He said it looked like a sunburn blister. The next morning I had two of these blisters on my neck.

Went to the doctor fearing a spider bite. He said it would be fine and assured me it was not a spider bite but some other flying varmit.
Any of you guys ever get bitten by something like this?

"Save the Whalers, they need jobs too."
· Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Comments

  • TOOLS1TOOLS1 Member Posts: 6,133
    edited November -1
    Every day. South Carolina is filled with things like this.
    Are you back from Lafayette? Did you go to Brunos? Did you have a pizza? Did you send me some?
    TOOLS

    General TOOLS RRG

    Don't go blaming the beer. Hank Hill

    So much Ice, So much Beer. So little time. Shooter4

    I don't have an anger problem. I have an idiot problem. Hank Hill

    When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now that I am grown, I just wish I could act like a child and get away with it.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • will270winwill270win Member Posts: 4,845
    edited November -1
    That sucks!

    I'm pretty sure i got bit by five of everything in Vandenberg. That includes ticks, they were all over.

    Got my deer anyway.

    "When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend."
    ~Secret Select Society Of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets~
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • bigdaddyjuniorbigdaddyjunior Member Posts: 11,233
    edited November -1
    Better watch out you don't get the hydraphobee! My brother's place in SW GA. has these bugs that try to suck the jelly out of your eyes. Hundreds at a time cluster in, around and on the surface of you eyes trying to get some moisture. Every year down here I see a new kind of biting bug.For some reason they don't like people who drink a lot of beer and eat a lot of spicy food so I'mm pretty safe.

    Big Daddy my heros have always been cowboys,they still are it seems
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Member Posts: 5,378 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My right calf has a brown spot about 6" in diameter from something biting me a few years ago. I was out shooting in the woods one day. That night my leg started itching. Two days later there was a quarter inch hole oozing puss and my skin was starting to turn dark in color. Still don't know what bit me. Lots of antibiotics cleared it up. I did get tested for lyme disease.

    I now blouse my pants whenever I will be walking where it's brushy or there is tall grass.

    Woods
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • 4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
    edited November -1
    Sounds like a common hornet to me. They pack a nasty punch, about an inch long and black with white bands. A sand hornet is a bit larger but is yellow and black.

    "Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet."
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hornets are a good two inches and pack a real serious whallop. This sounds more like a deer fly to me.

    My heros have always killed cowboys.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • 96harley96harley Member Posts: 3,992 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Tools got back Sunday. Didn't make it to Brunos but will be going back to train 4-H rifle disciple on the 5th. I've heard it's really good pizza. I will let you know. Is it in West Lafayette?

    "Save the Whalers, they need jobs too."
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • gap1916gap1916 Member Posts: 4,977
    edited November -1
    My best two thoughts are a wasp of some sort or a blister bug.

    Greg
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • TOOLS1TOOLS1 Member Posts: 6,133
    edited November -1
    96Harley Yes Brunos is over by the levy in West Lafayette. It is the best pizza I have ever had. It used to be in a building across the street. But it was torn down when they widened the road. I liked going to the old building better. But the pizza is still the same.
    TOOLS

    General TOOLS RRG

    Don't go blaming the beer. Hank Hill

    So much Ice, So much Beer. So little time. Shooter4

    I don't have an anger problem. I have an idiot problem. Hank Hill

    When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now that I am grown, I just wish I could act like a child and get away with it.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
Sign In or Register to comment.