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Has anyone tried this Blue Sky mosquito netting hammock from Walmart? http://www.walmart.com/ip/Blue-Sky-Hammocks-Mosquito-Net-Hammock-wi...

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Dale - I don't have personal knowledge of this product but for what it's worth, Amazon has 5 recent 5-star reviews of the hammock.

Review are here.

From the looks of it, they can bite you through the hammock.  I know I got the hammock bliss no-seeum net which hangs above and below my hammock and if I don't adjust right for the sag of my a$$, the skeeters bite through the fabric.  Theres got to be some screen hanging loose below the hammock.

check this out: see how the screen is below the hammock too?  those glades skeeters drill through deer hide.

Thanks Chris and Shawn.  

I use my sleeping pad in my Hennessy to keep the suckers from hitting from below.

The sale price you posted is just for the bug netting. What hammock do you use?


shawn beightol said:

From the looks of it, they can bite you through the hammock.  I know I got the hammock bliss no-seeum net which hangs above and below my hammock and if I don't adjust right for the sag of my a$$, the skeeters bite through the fabric.  Theres got to be some screen hanging loose below the hammock.

That Permethrin spray sold for clothing has worked well on my hammock. Not only does it seem to keep them from biting through the bottom, but the ones that get inside die when they land on the walls or top.

I'm still using (and loving) my modified Viet Nam era military surplus hammock. I keep looking at the "modern" ones and have not been impressed. I have a back-up in the closet in case my original one (20 yrs old +) ever wears out.

Just returned from 3 day solo to "Fort Harrell"!  (under the radar).

I'm using

a hammock bliss parachute type hammock = $40 delivered

a hammock bliss mosquito net - guaranteed to keep out mosquitoes and No Seeums = $56 delivered.

been using 2 5X7 tarps overlapped but just purchased an Equinox Egret 8X10' ultralight tarp = $44.30 delivered

with the new tarp, the total will be 3.5 lbs.

I bought it piecemeal.  The hammock I had for the backyard.  The Fort Harrell Trip led me to the mosquito/No-Seeum net.  I was using a blue home-depot tarp combined with a backpackers lightweight tarp.  The weight of my pack this past weekend for 3 days (food + camping gear + survey tools) was more than I wanted...so I am going to be cutting corners where possible (hence the switch to the equinox tarp.

The permetherin on my clothes didn't last too long.  I think my sweat just leeched it out after a while.  Again, the best thing I found for keeping the skeeters at bay was to keep the coleman coils burning at camp (and I was camped and surveying in a hammock full of mosquitoes) - I took the coils not the thermacell for weight sake...100% DEET for hands and neck...and mosquito head net.

I agree with whoever said it earlier - a pad or fleece tucked under your body, even clothing, will decrease the "bite-thru" factor (even with the net in my setup, where the net hits the hammock, they can bite through).  By sleeping with a fleece tucked around my edges (my netting protects me underneath, its just the edges where the net and hammock touch), I sleep soundly.

Dale, I'm pretty sure the hammock you described to me comes with hammock and net:  

its $43 bucks delivered for hammock and net.  You just need a tarp.

I just ordered the Hammock Bliss Mosquito Cocoon from Amazon. 

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