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Shot a nice doe right after pissing from my stand last year.

Had the bubble guts couple seasons ago on a morning hunt.

Didn’t make it much outta sight of my stand before the code red hit.

Pro tip - keep baby wipes in your backpack.

Saw deer later that morn.

I am sure a hunter can piss and chit all around his stand and still kill deer but I am a trophy whitetail hunter. hunting an old whitetail buck on public land ain't for everybody as they are a different animal than your average hunting lease/ private land 2yr old 8 point, I am a scent Nazi when it comes to my body, clothes and equipment so I am most certainly in the no pissing out of your stand camp...but to each his own...Good hunting ...Hb

When I was hunting in Saskatchewan two years ago, we had a hunter having a tough time seeing deer, he actually didn't kill a buck. I think he was the only hunter for the week to go home empty handed. When the guide checked the stand at the end of the week, the hunter had been peeing out of the stand all week. Several guys had done this around the cabin, not even going into the woods a few steps, like 3-5 yards away. I could smell the ammonia smell around the cabin easily. Dumb par is the cabin has plumbing, no reason for this but laziness. Point is, I wonder if once or twice may not cause a problem, especially over the course of a week where the urine doen't build up a strong ammonia smell. But repeated urinating, every day for several days, probably does have a negative effect. For me, on a guided hunt especially with big money invested, I'll carry my urine out and deal with the hassle.

I'm cool with the folks that want to carry it out. I was that way for the first 25 years or so. Although I have to say even my "My First Deer" story starts with "I'd just gotten up and taken a leak when. . ." I'd also be the first to say that big bucks in big woods can be really finicky. Our bruisers are so used to humans, that it is quite common to see them feeding up close to the house during Happy Hour. I've found them bedded next to stands in the off-season.

Let's get back to the experiment. I'm wanting to test the hypothesis that deer are attracted to the sound of a stream of liquid hitting the ground. My point in raising the question is that I and a lot of others have had the experience of seeing deer right after taking a whizz. Is it the sound? Is it the scent? You've got 20 minutes left on a 5-hour sit. You've not seen even a squirrel all morning. What's it going to hurt? Mind you, I'm just talking clear water. I've tried it. I have to say the results are less than spectacular. I'd say 50/50 at best. Actually whizzing off the stand has produced far more deer sightings. YMMV.

What the hell was she doing way up there to begin with?

Don’t pee into a stiff wind.

Hang a funnel with a piece of garden hose going to the ground

Don't squat with your spurs on!

I use a plastic urinal from the hospital or a plastic coke bottle with a cap.

I was whizzing out of my stand one morning when 5 does suddenly appeared, yep, below me.

I had to turn the spigot off, not an easy thing to do. One looked up, then they all did.

It's embarrassing when they point, whisper, and giggle.......

I did something similar in our ground blinds. SuperCore liked it so much I added one to the second floor of deer camp, so he wouldn't have to come downstairs in the middle of the night.

Deer Funnels

I have pissed out of a ground blind a couple times during one hunt and shot deer at 15-20 feet before with a bow. That's not a story I heard at deer camp or happened to a cousins best friend.

Well, picture the senecio... You are on the north side of retirement age, the pecker pump isn’t what it use to be, you have been in your tree stand four hours in freezing temperatures and there is some shrinkage going on. You have four layers of underwear, long underwear, wool pants and camo pants on. And now you want me to do what exactly? Even if it does make it to the ground you need to climb back down through that. Might be better to meet the lower unit half way with container of sorts. Just sayin.

LOL, an older friend of mine (now passed) used to tell about almost being run over by a buck while he was taking a leak. He was on the ground of course.

One of the most successful deer hunters I've ever known said he whizzed from his stand all of the time.

Where I hunt most deer are shot at 75 to 150 yards, we don't worry about it. 'Course we're usually on a knoll or ridge 40 or 50 feet above them.

I've been a bowhunter 95% of the time for the last 42 years. I target whitetail bucks 3.5 years and older.

Trust me.........they don't care.

Took a piss, ate a sammich, lit a cig and 3 minutes later while still smoking stuck a 9 pt. No worries.

I just let it fly> never a problem.....

I completely agree! I refuse to carry bottles of urine around with me. Nope, not happening.

The deer do not care.

Genius I say! Well done sir.