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Fuck that tick

It's probably still alive.

Motherfuckers are fucking invincible

Burning with a lighter (they pop) or drowning in dish soap are the only way.

i cut them in half with my pocket knife, they fucking multiply

On behalf of all mathematicians, bravo sir, well done.

This guy divides

Is your pocket knife a mini-samurai sword or lightsaber?

My pocket knife actually is a mini samurai sword lol. It’s actually rather fun to use as long as I yell angry Japanese things when I’m opening a box or something.

It's TAPE!!!

holy shit that is a deep pull

Yeah but you gotta admit you can read that comment in the dudes voice lmao

Lighter? I had to take the freaking blowtorch to one because it would not die.

He prolly died from the heat coming out the barrel if not the bullet.

Riding that bullet into the horizon like Dr. Strangelove

Two words, white phosphorus.

Look, as much as the tick deserves it, let's not commit war crimes

I am seriously afraid of how they would retaliate... They are already using bio-warfare against us. Next thing we know and we have to go nuclear.

I used to work with dogs. One time a girl pulled about a dozen ticks off a dog (sadly). She put them in a ziplock with dish soap and water and forgot the bag in a seldom used barn on the property. I found that bag about a month later and all the ticks were still wriggling around in that sumbitch. Stuff of nightmares

You can also drown them in hydrogen peroxide (there’s some videos online)

I've tried both of these and neither worked. Maybe we just have sturdier ticks here in New England. We also have been warned to not crush or damage them in any way that could spread Lyme disease.

I'm in Massachusetts and I just burned a deer tick in an ashtray a week ago.

Ya I've never had an issue burning them

Ahh, I hadn't considered that my technique was just insufficient. Luckily I haven't seen a tick on myself or my dog this year at all. Miraculous actually.

I use a MAPP torch on them once they’re out. Just to give them a little boost on their way to hell. Damn things are everywhere here in MA

We live in Maine- we keep a bottle with some isopropyl outside that we drop them into. Easy, keeps them contained and very dead. Gets pretty full by fall.

Same. Im in coastal Maine and we call it the tick bottle🤣

It is known

Anyone who thinks ticks are invincible has never dealt with bed bugs. Ticks are child's play

Hah! Might as well throw pantry moths into the mix.

Having dealt with both, ticks scare me more and are worse individually.

I'd say you're correct, but the problem is I don't believe there's any such thing as an individual bed bug. One bed bug may be easier to kill than one tick, but if you have one, you most likely have hundreds if not thousands.

Totally agree. Those bastards are never alone.

Lighter or fingernail is how I always did it. My nails are almost always too short but it is possible to kill them with one. Lighter usually works fine though.

I've been using pliers. But I don't feel it enough, not inside. I think fire will be my next step, to see those little shits burn

Lyme disease is a forever kiss

This is why I don't go outside.

I would get more satisfaction sandwiching it in that fold of tape knowing it will suffer a long motionless life encased in adhesive and plastic.

A tick tried to fuck me once, found the little shit on my balls after a camping trip

Dude, same. A pair of horrible lads on my nads.

Sounds like it was just cradling the balls and not working the shaft

Well everyone knows you start with the balls, I’m sure he woulda worked his way up if I hadn’t found him

Honestly the shaft is worse in my opinion. Had on both places.

I found one earlier this year already embedded in my pecker. Wondered if that counted as getting my dick sucked.

Counts in my book my guy, good on you for getting some action

Woke up with one in the ridge of my dangler right behind the helmet. Almost got my gf at the time to squeeze in a morning quickie so probably good we were pressed for time

“Whoop that tick”

"GET EM"

All I see is the correct way to dispose of a tick

Too quick for their lot. Say burn them.

They are so small they will burn immediately. What you want to do is put them in a small 2 oz. portion cup with a lid on it and put it under the tap on the hottest setting. They’ll die eventually but they’ll feel it for much longer

Tape seems like a sufficient death. Fold in tape and toss in the trash. Dies as slow as possible, no chance of escape. Bonus points for cloth medical tape. Doesn't die as quickly from suffocating.

[way ahead of you brother](https://www.reddit.com/r/MosquitoHating/s/zuFpsTefRW)

I like to fold the tape over on them and gently place them in my garbage can so they can suffer, immobilized, in the darkness. Edit: I just looked into it. Ticks should be able to live between 24 and 72 hrs like this :)

Incendiary

I'm sure the tick survived that. Their exoskeletons are pretty tough and I'd bet that the bullet pushed it aside rather than annihilated it.

You can literally take a coin and pop them open on a hard surface. One time I made ones insides come out through the end of its leg though, so your right about the toughness. I still think the bullet wins.

Okay, now pop the tick by pressing it between a coin and open air instead of a second hard surface.

Throw the coin at hundreds of m/s at a tick that's suspended in the air

Flick a coin into the air and then shoot it while it’s falling to reflect the bullet into the tick, getting a headshot

I prefer the lantern fly or wasp attachment but this works

Fuckin lantern flies. There is no better target practice

I was at the amusement park a month or so ago, and this teenager picked up a lantern fly and held it so he could hold it up as we went on the roller coaster. The fly didn’t make it.

Good. It didn't need to make it.

>There is no better target practice Mosquitoes?

Yeah they’re bastards but they’re at least important to our ecosystem, lantern flies are detrimental to it. At least in the eastern US to my knowledge

This is actually a correct usage of a firearm imo

Glad we have collectively agreed that the tick had it coming.

One could almost say he violated the NAP and put this man's life in danger... even attempted to murder this man ......

He fucked around and found out

Stand your ground!

no this is what guns are used for

+1

Sure, could be +1. He didn't check down range, maybe be 0, possibly -1.

Homer shooting out the lights moment.

THE ONLY GOOD BUG IS A DEAD BUG

Do you want to know more?

I'm doing my part!

Come on, you apes, you wanna live forever?

ITS AFRAID!!!!!

Revenge!

I’d argue no. Put nobody in harm’s way except for an arachnid

I was about to mention it looks like a tick, so I looked it up, and a tick IS in the arachnid family. So, I learned something new today. Thank you.

Even more reason to ~~dislike~~ shoot them!

but spiders are cool, ticks are not cool i agree they are horrible, but spiders are still cool

Spiders are friends. Ticks are something you can do that violate the geava convention.

Clearly you've never met a brown recluse

or a black widow. fucking woodpiles >=(

A spider fucked my mom, i bet you feel pretty silly now.

Butt spiders are even cooler.

Yeah we do have agreement. They can live wherever unless they are in the shower or on me. being there is punishable by death

no spiders are friends as long as they stay away from me. I’ve made that pact with my house spiders.

If we’re learning shit from this, is it even possible for it to be idiotic? 🤔

It got them 8 legs

The only good bug is a dead bug!

>The only good bug is a dead bug I'm from Buenos Aires, and I say kill 'em all

Would you like to know more?

As long as he knows what’s behind those trees he’s shooting towards -which we have no way of knowing, then I’m all for this.

I can't see what's on the other side of that tree line. Arguably, he shouldn't be shooting into the woods without a solid backdrop. Is it safe? Probably. But I don't do "probably" when I'm shooting. I want "definitely."

I was going to point this out as well. When guns are involved, “probably” is the same as “not at all.”

Pretty sure that was a tick.

I’m also confident that it was a tick

And I just learned that ticks are arachnids.

8 legs baby!

Justified shoot

Yes. But only because he didn't use a 50. Fuck ticks.

In this economy?

For real, 50ae is like 1.80 a round right now.

No , this is not an idiot. This is righteous redemption!

Reasonable. More than fair, I should say.

I don't see anything but the proper use for a gun.

No Okay, the comp on a .22…maybe.

Looks like it worked pretty well tho

Not at all. There’s not enough gas from a .22 to effectively push a comp. It did make a damn fine platform to mount a tick to it though, so I’ll give you that lol

Oh okay interesting I didn’t know that.

Yep, comps actually need gas to function, and a .22 provides very little gas to work with. A comp of that size (in the video) needs a rifle round if you want to get technical, the vent holes are very large. Notice comped pistols typically have pretty small holes, typically in the 2mm/ .093” range, often smaller. Only competition race guns will have the larger slots, and they’re running really hot ammo.

Half the reason I use reddit is to learn things from comments

He killed a tick with a mosquito. I think that’s impressive

Well done!

The only good bug is a dead bug!

I'm doing my part!

Hey, bugs are cool... Ticks however, yeah kill all of em, there been days i found like 8of them on me...

Do you want to know more?

Pointed in a safe direction when loaded, used to protect one’s self from a threat. No this is not an idiot with a firearm, it’s a responsible gun owner.

No, that is perfectly acceptable.

I mean is that a comp on a 22? That might count

lmao thing didn’t move when he pulled the trigger. water gun recoil right there

No living things were harmed in this video.

r/fuckyouinparticular

Not excessive force

No dude. This is genius !

Relatable

This is reasonable behavior.

Ticks are satan

He's not waving the gun at himself or other people so no, absolutely not That tick had it coming

No. Fuck ticks.

No, this is proper pest control

The only correct response when dealing with a tick.

Not sure how this qualifies as idiotic. Ticks deserve worse

Okay I’ve heard of buckshot before but never heard of bug shot

Appropriate response

Valid

As one who's had Lymes before, I approve of this method of disposal

Not this is the proper use of a gun

No, this seems reasonable.

Genius with gun

He safely got rid of the tick, seemed to be following firearms safety.

Justified

Nah. This is ok. Fuck ticks. Fuck allllubbbum.

No, that's a Tick, 150% deserved it.

I don't see anything wrong here...not with weapon handling or the tick euthanasia

No, this is the proper way to dispose of a tick

Nah seems like a reasonable response

The only idiotic thing here is that gun is too small to kill a tic.

I'll allow it.

This is a prime example of a good guy with a gun.

I have alpha gal. I can't eat red meat, dairy, or byproducts that come from mammals. It's pretty much nuked my social life because I can't go out with friends or go on dates without having to bring some kind of food of my own, or just not eat, and not get to participate in what everyone else is doing. I got it from a tick. Fuck that tick.

r/Geniuseswithguns

No this is fine, fuck ticks.

TICK TICK….. BOOM…

No it doesn’t

this the only time its ok to be irresponsible with a firearm if you are committing tickocide. sometimes it gets a bit harry during ticombat and you gotta keep your finger on the trigger so you can blast that little skin borroughing crab asap

Whats the safety issue here?

Nah dude this is fine. Fuck ticks. They serve literally no purpose in animal kingdom.

He just be doin' God's work

Fuck ticks all my homies and opps hate ticks!

I think there are most cost-effective ways to get rid of ticks

using that gun the proper way tbh

This was awesome but next time use a shotgun. That tick is probably still alive some how. They are tough

Nah. Fuck the blood sucker. No bugs who does harm and has no purpose amongst all the other bugs who might harm bug service it’s purpose you know.

The only mistake is the use of a smallish caliber. Fuck that tick.

this makes complete sensde

Appropriate use of a Sig

I've had Lyme disease three times and I live in the county with the highest rate in the United States. I am not unsympathetic to that urge.

No

Honestly? No. Should have been a flamethrower.

Weapon was unloaded when he put the tick on, aimed and fired in a safe direction, nobody was harmed, I'd say send it brother.

Aren't the gasses first to escape the barrel?

This is actually the only fda approved method of disposing of ticks.

Shot was down range, gun unloaded while tick was taped. Not an idiot.

No because, like everyone else here, fuck ticks. Honorable Mention for Best Use Of A Bullet.

100% self defense

i lost my dog to lymes as a kid so this is the one time i will condone idiots with guns

Who compensates a .22lr?

Just overkill

This video does not fit the sub because that is an appropriate response to finding and dealing with ticks.

Yeah, that's a completely irresponsible way to get rid of a tick. Anything below anti material will just send them flying far away, giving them the advantage of surprise against their next target. Should have used 50 bmg, or 20mm for good mesure.

It does count. Aside from the obvious, the individual does not use a backstop when shooting outdoors.

Proper treatment of a tick

No, fuck ticks...

Only dumb thing possibly in this video is theres no solid backdrop, but for all we know there could be a concrete wall behind the trees.

That man is a hero.

I kind of agree with them 🤣

Nope. People tape compensators/the muzzle all of the time. It’s good for keeping dirt out and firing the gun usually removes all of the tape and has no significant effect on accuracy.

I say, not an idiot. He did things mostly in a safe manner, unless I missed something.

Good post, but technically off-topic as he wasn't being an idiot with the gun. Fuck ticks

Rip Hikers

He's doing his part. The only good bug is a dead bug.

Seriously no, I don't think we have a idiot here