I've witnessed bucks walk directly underneath me to check out my tinkle. Pee away.

This year I started using a pee bottle after everyone told me it was bad to pee where you hunt. Well, they were wrong. I got my first deer, a 9 pointer, this year not ten minutes after peeing out of the stand. He walked right up to me, with the wind in his face. That day I frogot the bottle and everyday after that!! It does not seem to bother the doe either. Yesterday I had one come up behind me, no shot, but still, it did not seem to bother them I had peed all day from the stand. It does seem to bother coons a little though once they get close. Last week a coon come right under my stand, smell where I peed, and took off like some lit a fire under his rear. So, I agree, pee on!!!

Oh, if you do use a bottle, best to use a cola bottle so that the color difference is obvious.

Is the picture a bottle of Mountain Dew or warm recycled Mountain Dew? I usually carry a bottle with a handle & a short rope to tie it to the stand. It looks nothing like my drink bottle. But, I'm thinking about giving up the bottle. More & more hunters seem to be reaching the conclusion that it doesn't matter.

I used to carry a bottle, but articles from you guys (and others) have led me to quit that habit. I'm glad to be rid of the practice, too.

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Evan!

never used a bottle. never will.

You mean I've been skipping my coffee before going out for no valid reason?

Everyone always tells me that peeing in a bottle isn't necessary, but I can't convince myself it won't spook the deer. I guess I'll be a pee-bottle user until the day I die! On all days hunts, like this Saturday coming up, I'll probably bring a half gallon jug to be safe!

i would love to see some scientific research on this stuff

Cohorts and I had this debate years ago. Eventually, my colleague I. P. Freely and I convinced the gang to let 'er rip. I pee in scrapes too. Bring it, bucks. I challenge you. I think I'm gonna win.

I had always just gone pee but in a side note when fishing I do the same thing and there too it seems to up the catch ratio. Who knows were outdoors men not scientist.

story my dad told me about how he got his big buck when he came home from deer camp; he took a leek on the log 15 feet from his area where he was sitting, and about an hour later he woke up to a grunt. yeah he fell asleep, but there was a but right by that watered log, and boy was that deer pissed, grunting and kicking, but a 12 gauge put an end to that.

Also try to avoid your bibs and other clothes. might get a little messy.

At the house my wife had trouble with the deer eating her flowers next to the house. I (jokingly) told her human urine would drive deer away. For weeks she would collect her urine and pour it around her flowers.

The deer continued to eat her flowers and when she realized the joke she killed me in my sleep (at least she wanted to!).

Actually it seemed to attract the deer.

Seriously I don't know how CaptChuck57 can get negative for his pointing out the clearly undersized mouth opening of a regular soda bottle. Not to mention the juggling act that insues if your hands are numb and shaking or god forbid you had too much coffee and you fill her up before you are done. I personally prefered the liter of cola bottles.
But I peed on my hand enough times and the act of carrying my pee out of the woods with me became too much and I now let fly in the woods. Matter of fact got my first bow kill 6 seasons ago with my fly still open.

Thanks for the tip thats one less item to lug around in the backwoods!

This blog topic came at just the right time. This past Saturday I was sitting in a stand from which I bagged a 10 pointer two weeks ago and I couldn't hold the pee back any longer so I let'r rip. I've been wondering ever since if I screwed up that stand location. Sounds like I'm good to go. WHEW!!!

A couple of years ago during the Wisconsin gun opener, I had an unually active bladder and had urinated several times from my stand. As the day progressed I had eaten a small candy bar and the wrapper had falled to the ground about 10 feet from where I had urinated. I had a mature buck came under my stand with his nose to the ground, the buck proceeded to push his nose directly through the wet leaves full of my urine and kept right on going. When he reached the candy wrapper he near fell over, he jumped about six feet up the hill and continued on his way looking back at that wrapper as he left the area. I am a firm believer that human urine doesn't bother deer.

I don't think captchuck57 was bragging, he just has bad aim.

A heavy duty ziplock bag works well as long as you don't put too much stress on it. It's easy to carry and I empty mine when I get a couple of hundred yards away from my stand.

I don't do it I go away from the area, but this may change if
it works for y'all. :)

I used to pee in the woods all the time. Then when I started to get into scent control, I would pee when I got out of the truck and only in the woods when I had to go badly. Now I am going to take a piss everywhere in the woods.

Just so y'all know, my comment was just a light-hearted joke to get through a busy Monday. My apologies if anyone took offense. This really is a very interesting topic.
vtbluegrass - you're right, I have often been accused of poor aim, especially by females going to the head after me!

So Dr. Hollywood´s girlfriend has been wrong all this time.
That´s a relief.
Have always wondered, if wolves and bears don´t hide their leaks, why would we?
If they leave an area every time they smell predator urine, there would be no place to go.
Anyway, I have tought about making deer associate human urine with food and let it fly around feeders.

Used to walk about 50 yards from my stand when I was a teenager to pee. Noticed that deer would go over and stick their nose down in it and get a good whiff and then start pawing the ground up. Started peeing in scrapes after that. Drove bucks crazy. They would come in grunting and snorting, then tear the ground up and pee on top of it. Always filled my tags that way.

If they can detect pheromones in their own urine, I'd think they know ours – at least from time to time, depending on diet. I look at it this way: if I force myself to shower at 3:30 a.m. in scent-free soap, wash my clothes in scent-free detergent every time I go, go through the hassle of dressing in the cold dark November morning and spraying my boots, hat, everything, I'll damn sure do something as simple as piss in a bottle rather than all over the ground. You can give me every anecdote you want, I take my hunt too seriously to base my methods on hearsay and limited experiences. I've seen them not react to my urine on the ground. I've also seen them not react to being directly downwind of me when I took no scent-eliminating precautions. But does that mean either of those things will happen when the buck of a lifetime comes strolling down my creek ditch? I don't know. And I'm not risking it. Good luck piss pots.

Well, I certainly won't miss carrying that bottle. But am I the only one who used it as a hand warmer on cold days?

Just got back from huntin could'nt resist letting her rip on seveal occaisions,like all day. Next day I had a fresh scrape & rub behind my stand. I.m convinced

If you're not a horn hunter, and just want meat letting it fly anywhere works too, but don't try this at home!

If there is a tree, bush, stump, or even a weed near by I let it fly cause why strain your bladder and hold it in, or why try to pee in a bottle when there are plants near by that need a good watering.

I don't pay attention to where I wiz.And I read about peeing on mock scrapes in Feild and Stream and it's appearently more economical than buying the bottled stuff.

i belive that most hunters have done this a time or two.

i have found over the years it "is" better to pee in a bottle,just for the simple fact that i don't want to lower my hunting equipment into wet leaves.so i attached a hose to my pee bottle,run the hose out bout twenty feet from my tree now have a setup that works for me gun or bow.this setup also works for my wife it took a little work for her but she finally got it without fallen out of the stand

Bella has a point. For women, especially with many layers of clothing peeing anywhere in the woods can be problematic.

There is a product on the market called, "P-Mate", that is designed for women to help overcome that problem. They have a website. The product is a collapsible cardboard tube that acts as a funnel.

I own a package of them, but had not been desperate enough to give it a try ( but I don't stand hunt).

For women hunters, you should check it out.

and the guy with the wide mouth bottle ,why dont ya just use a quart jar then

Buckhunter, wish i knew that because i was holding it forever while in your stand. Otherwise, when i'm in MY stand I let it fly.

Appreciate the import, but, way TMI.
LOL

Steve182,

Thanks for not pissing out of my stand. My B-in-law took an 8 point out of it Saturday night.

to pee or not to pee????? well i pee, and last friday i shot one of the nices bucks that i have seen in a long time, if it was from my pee or just in the right spot at the right time i will never know but what i do know is that he didn't spook from it.

Sorry coho310. That was a "Cheap Shot"! ;-) What can I say. I couldn't pass it up. ;-) (Yeah, I knew what you meant.)