Many years ago, I decided and planned on an all day sit in the treestand. I sat all day and saw nothing. I had to go mid-day so I "sprayed" the bushes below. With about 15 minutes of daylight showing, 5 does came from the thick schitt I was eyein all day. They came out at about 45 degrees from me headed to somewhere. 2 or 3 of them turned and came directly to my tree, sniffed the bushes, then turned back and followed the others un-alarmed. Let er fly.

Never messed up a hunt for me.

I pee wherever the need arises. Don’t believe it affects anything.

Let her rip tater chip

I think I can honestly say that I never killed a deer where I hadn't peed out of the stand before I killed it. If I did, it was one of those quick 15 minute hunts. I drink well over a gallon of water a day. I pee freely and often.

I pee in scrapes all the time and cover them with leaves, they come back and uncover them.

I think the real answer correlates with:

The older we get, the more we pee from the stand.



God Bless,
David B.

Just installed urinals in boxes , pipe goes in ground beneath stand not sure about the smell messing up the hunt but if I pee a lot opening and closing doors is more problem in my opinion

I saw a youtube vid years ago and guy was dealing with "5 greatest myths" about deer hunting. Pissing where you were hunting was near top. He said that the smell dissipated about 20 min after you done the deed. Also, he said it depended on the ambient temp. Colder it was, longer it took smell to leave.

This post is so relateable. I was in woods Saturday afternoon and had to pee before climbing a tree. Did so and covered it up About an hour later small 4 point walked about 20 yards, down wind, from me. Never checked up just kept on moving.

If you do, you just might get pee all over your pull up rope and be hesitant to use it when time to come down.

^^^^🤣

Y'all stick your hands inside a deer to pull out guts but a little of your own pee on a haul rope is a matter of concern?

Yes.

Urine isn't 100% sterile but it's not a bubbling goo of bacterial skin-eating kill-you acid, either. It dries. Nothing to worry about.

My prostate gives me no choice but to let er rip.....

Years ago (like 15), I bought some Fox urine as cover scent. I put some out in the greenfield and climbed into my ladder stand early AM. The sun came up and a Fox came in down wind and peed over it. Shortly there after a deer came into the greenfield downwind. I wanted to hunt but the wind was not right for that greenfield. Somehow that Fox knew it was Fox urine.

I pee in a bottle, although I did hunt as a guest on some land near Childersburg and I got up to pee and while pissing, downwind from me some does came out.

So who the heck knows.

This subject came up on an outfitter hunt in Ohio. I said I always pee and the guide agreed. My buddy was very much against it. Next day - cold morning - I peed out of my stand and had two does come lick the frozen urine off the leaves of a bush below me. Same morning my buddy dropped his industrial size, complete full backpack with his urine bottle in it and it busted. He pees out of his stand now.

I pee when i got to pee... tree, climber, shooting house...A couple of the guys i hunt with actually piss in there coffee canisters during the morning, bring them out and dump......NO THANKS.