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I've often been careful not to urinate where I'm huntin but I've also heard peein in a scrape will drive a buck nuts...not scare him off. Any hunters here pee in scrapes to get a buck's attention??? What say you??

Had a cameras on several good scrapes this last season, and got pictures of both bucks and doe urinating there.
I would occasionally use a little Tinks 69 in the scrapes to see if it would pick up activity any. Sometimes it did a little, and sometimes not at all.
After reading about folks peeing in scrapes, I thought I would try it in one of the 4 scrapes I had cameras on for comparison.
The 3 that I used either nothing or Tinks 69 in kept the same amount of visitors to them.
The one scrape I peed in saw a BIG increase in activity. I would say I had 3 to 4 times as many deer checking that one scrape than the other 3 I had left alone.
Could have been a fluke, but it really got my attention.

So, I tried something else. One of the scrapes was along the edge of a pasture bordered by thick cover. It was being used, but the bucks had only made that ONE scrape in that area.
I made a mock scrape about 30 yards further down from the existing scrape and peed in it instead of using a bottled scent.
I gave it 3 days and went back to check the area.
There were now 9 (yes, I said 9) new scrapes along that pasture edge. Could have been ANOTHER fluke, but it really seemed like the mock scrape supercharged the deer into making more scrapes.

Far from absolute PROOF that human urine works better than bottled urine, but it sure was an eye opener to the possibility.

You also need to rub the edge of your eyelid on an overhanging branch while you are there. Just be real careful.

It also helps to pee on ones knees and rub them together.

Don't forget to thrash the bush and sharpen your horn!

Sharpening your horn sounds painful.

yep

You might also want to wear a chastity belt, in case that big buck slips up behind you.

Almost all wild animals will check out a new scent, and cover it with their own scent if they are territorial at all. Trappers use fox urine and catch bobcats, coyotes, coons, fox etc. Animals check out different scents, and it is natural to do so.

You really can't go wrong by pouring a coke in a scrape. If the scrape isn't smelling like the dominant buck in the area, he will take that as a threat, and saturate the area with scrapes and rubs marking his territory.

Deer spooking from human urine is an old wives tale. It is the human presence and intrusion into core areas that they are more likely to spook from.

Yep, everytime I can.

a little ammonia will do...

Eat some asparagus the night before you pee in the scrape. I don't know about the bucks but it sure gets my attention!

Pee in them all the time.

You need to recognize the difference between territorial scrapes and active ones.

Don't know anything about pissing in them, but have my doubts about it driving a buck crazy...

If it was a consistently effective trick, I'm sure we would have heard about it long before now.

The stuff you read On the Internet...

What I know-the scrapes that I pee in get hit much more than those that I don't.

I have, and have seen where bucks go nuts over it.

I've done it and have seen more activity at those sites. However, it has done little as far as getting me a buck. I think what increases your chances of seeing a big buck during shooting light is a hot doe. So, you might want to bring your wife out to pop a squat in the woods for you.

Well, look, you want to shoot that big buck or not?

Have Schoolkraft pee in a bottle and sell it! ;o) I have never peed in one but guess I will start.

I have started my own new scrapes with my own pee and some spit on a licking branch. More than once it became an active scrap visited by both sexes.
jmho
Tim