After looking at few threads from the past, I noticed alot of hikers were removeing ticks with a hot match head, vaseline, submursion into cold liquid. According to a CDC website,ONLY fine headed tweeezers should be used followed by an anticeptic.
Ohioan
Yup, tweezers so you get the head or it can make a nasty infection. Removing a deer tick should be fun this way, so small. Also heard of finger nail polish. I would guess a drop of stove fuel may work too. Something to make its back out of the skin, followed by disinfectant.
Bushwhack
Vasoline works by suffocating the tick, they breath through the skin (kinda). This takes a while, and should only be used if a tweezers or long fingernails are not around.
Matches and other chemicals make the tick back out, which also more importantly makes them sick and likely to throw up. And the risk of disease is much higher if a tick throws up in your blood stream.
Use a tweezers as close to the head as possible and pull gently until ticko gives up. Then burn the sucker with the white gas. Then send five dollars to BW and ten to me.
Officer Taco
Put a leech on top of the tick and have them fight it out!
you could depending on size, loop a thread of cotton round it and pull out that way, assuming its not the ‘grain of sand’ size ticks.
Bill Clinton