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. . . He got hit by my "stream" and jumped . I jumped because I had zero idea he was there! He ran out about 20 yards and stood there....I was scrambling for my gun, with my tallywackle hanging out, managing to shoot him as he was trotting away. I was kneeling at the time off the edge of the stand and took a moment to process what I had just done. Tucked It back in, zipped up, climbed down to get my buck.

My biggest fear about shooting a big buck while peeing is getting it caught in the zipper.

I worry about stepping on it! 😜

Look, I know I've got a reputation. With the headdress and rattle, and all you know it's coming. Just bear with me for a moment.

Did you ever notice how deer always seem to show up when you're answering nature's call? #1? #2? I went through a five year period early on, where I'd cop a squat in in the woods and a big buck would show up. Over the years, I've had some crazy encounters with deer when my zipper was open or my pants were down. I always figured deer were curious like small children. They want to see how adults get the job done.

About 10 years ago, I invited SuperCore out to hunt. He's one of my old bosses, and a good friend, and SuperCore wanted to learn how to hunt deer and turkey. As an accomodation to SuperCore, who is several years older than me, I installed relief tubes in all the blinds, and the upstairs bathroom. It's just a funnel held onto a garden hose with a clamp. The hose runs out into the grass. From the that time on, we did not have to leave the blind to pay the rent on the coffee.

That left the treestands. I, like many bowhunters, used to do the thing with packing my urine out. Either that, or I'd get down from the stand and walk some ways away. Along about 2006 that changed. #3 son, Angus, was just getting in the stand with me, and getting the child up and down the ladder was just too much work. I let him take a whiz off the stand. Bingo! five deer showed up. They didn't all run over to the puddle. They just came and browsed acorns by the stand. However, I noticed how unaffected they were by what Angus had just done.

That stimulated some curiosity in my head. Pretty soon, I was experimenting with letting fly off the stand. More times than not, deer made an appearance. It was so marked, that I began to mention it on the Deer & Deer Hunting Forum. I even suggested, just before the forum went toes-up, that folks try bringing a squeeze bottle of water out and give an ersatz whiz off the stand to see if it might be just the sound that attracts them. We would compare that against the results of the actual whizzers. My hypothesis was that the act of #1 from a height might mimick the sound of acorns falling.
D&DH became defunct, and I never got a chance to really explore this avenue. However, let me give you this year's observations:

1) On the Muzzleloader Opener, I had a doe come right up to the stand stare at me (more like stared right through me) and spend a considerable amount of time within 5 yards of the stand on my downwind side. This was within a few minutes of my second whizz off the stand.

2) Rifle Season: on my first morning sit at my new tower blind at Hollywood. A herd of deer came out into the field and one doe came directly towards the stand on my downwind side. I was still zipping up from relieving myself.

3) On my first morning sit at Midway during Rifle Season, I used the relief tube early in the 8 o'clock hour. Just before 0900, I had to go again, but this time, I just whizzed out the window. A young doe came out from my downwind side and walked up to the blind and put her head in, before sauntering off. There was shortly a lot of raking back in the cedars and within 5 minutes, a large 10 point buck walked out of the cedars on my downwind side and passed within 20 yards of the blind. I'm picking up the venison today from the processor.

4) On my last sit at Hollywood this year, I whizzed off the downwind side and promptly got busted by a doe directly downwind. However, within 5 minutes, another doe came up to the blind found the gap in the burlap at the ladder and stood transfixed peering at me through the hole. A few minutes later a herd of 4 deer, including a good 8-point buck came out into the field on my upwind side less than 80 yards out.

5) I had just whizzed out the downwind side of Midway at 1653 when a herd of deer came out into the pasture. I ended up shooting one of the deer. There was a monstrous 10 pointer amongst them.

I'm 59, so I figure I'm enterering that golden phase of my life where I am able to explore this phenomena to the fullest. I'm interested in y'all's thoughts and experiences.