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    Kevin Babione
    BPL Member

    @kbabione

    Locale: Pennsylvania

    I have a different style tick key – I can’t remember the name and it’s in my FA kit, but it looks like a small, very thin, v-stake with a slot cut in the pointed end that narrows to nothing.  The instructions tell you to be patient and that it can take up to a minute or more to remove a single tick.  The idea is that you get the tick in the slot and then slowly increase the pressure until the tick releases.  I think the logic is that they will release rather than lose a body part.  When I pulled mine off they were all crawling around my ziploc…I didn’t check for all body parts ;)

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    Todd T
    BPL Member

    @texasbb

    Locale: Pacific Northwest

    This is the one I have.  Sounds like maybe the one Kevin mentions.

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