Dose pee spook deer?

[bornagainbowhunter]

Yup I am a stand, uh, urinater.  

Hey guys, how do you spell it?

peer? peeer? peier?  

[bentpole]

Been saying this for years.    The second Saturday afternoon of the early Jersey season this year  after squirting 2 times out of my portable. I had a 60/70 lb Doe and her 2- 30 lb fawns under my stand for 45 minutes. Just couldn't bring myself to wacking any of them.I should bottle mine as curiousity scent!!    

[nd chickenman]

letter fly!! Shot my biggest buck just after zipping up!

[Brook Trout]

If they can't differentiate human pee from other animal pee.  Then doe in rut urine shouldn't work, right?  I don't know the answer, but I haven't noticed any harm from peeing on the ground.

[bama]

I pee through a small piece of Scent Lok material.

[NoCams]

Outfitter in Illinois made us pee in a bottle. Mason peed all over a dogwood tree under our stand a few years back and had a buck come under it while his pee was still dripping off the dogwood tree ! The buck never knew we were there. JMHO

[Buckeye Trad Hunter]

Pee doesn't bother them and I don't think the chew does either.  I have actually saw deer come in and lick the spot where I was spitting before I quit chewing.  My uncle that I hunt with has had the same experience.

[Friend]

Saw Myles Keller dipping years ago and I asked him if he dipped in the stand. He said that he did. I have used his response as a rationalization to keep on with my own habit.

[Red Beastmaster]

The scrape by my stand keeps getting bigger and I whizzed on it twice so far.

If there is a bow in my hand there is also a chew of Red Man in my cheek. Trying to spit on chipmunks helps pass the time.

[Hoyt]

Deer like tobacco.

[Butch Speer]

MY one time brother-in-law used to smoke a doobie in his stand. Boy sure killed a lot of deer.

[rascal]

Sportsmans program that used to air in Michigan hosted by a guy by the name of Fred Troost (sp) took up this very questions much to the annoyance of one local scent manufacturer.  I watched as he dumped a quart of fresh squeezed ummm Fred Juice across the back of a doe decoy and shortly there after several deer came right up to the deer decoy to take a whiff.  Also showed him making a mock scrape with his own urine as well as ammonia fertilizer which both worked rather well.  Seems the location was more important than the specific odor and deer are naturally curious critters.  I recall he did end up getting sued but cant tell you if he lost.

I personally pee in scrapes and off my stand and have never actually had it make a difference.  I check carefully before I let 'er rip so I dont scare them with the sound.  Also never had them react to Copenhagen spit and I chewed for several years while bow hunting.  Cant say for sure on the tobacco but thats  been my experience.

[bearbowman]

To pee or not to pee...................I pee

[mwosborn]

I pee too!

[bowslinger]

I have tried peeing in scrapes and have never had one abandoned.

Several years ago, right after peeing out of my stand, I had a small group of deer pass downwind of me, all does and fawns.  They caught my scent and snorted a little, but could not locate me. I was only about 10 feet above ground (bottom of platform).  After several minutes, one doe ended up underneath me, sniffing where I just went.  She put her back legs together and peed down her hind legs exactly on top of where I peed several minutes earlier.

I never worry about peeing on stand.  Don't chew the Redman on stand for fear of getting busted leaning over to spit.  Hunt on the ground mostly these days.

[highPlains]

I have killed two deer that licked the leaves I just peed on. Both were young deer, a doe and a small 9 point. I have no idea what a big buck would do.

I pee.

[stykbender]

Never mattered, I usually spook 'em slinging arras!

[Mojostick]

I also pee right in nearby scrapes, on purpose. I've never seen anything but positive results.

Here's what deer do NOT like the smell of...scented shaving cream, deoderant soap (Irish Spring style), aftershave, cologne, minty toothpaste, scented shampoo, fresh scent laundry det, spring fresh dryer sheets, gasoline on boots, carpet freshener on boots, anything close then on your hands/on your boots/pant legs, etc.

If the wind if right, chew or a cigarette won't bother them. If the wind is wrong, I've heard both that sometimes they don't bother deer and sometmes deer fall over themselves getting out of there.

My persnal experience is, cherry skoal doesn't bother them. Wintergreen or mint does.

However, there are always exeptions. A few years back, I was chainsawing multiple long shooting lanes for a rifle blind, alone. I'd cut some, go sit in the blind, look, mentally mark trees, walk back, cut more, etc. Well, after about 1/2 hour of this, I made a cut, walked back to the blind and sat down. I bent down to grab a water I had on the ground, looked back up and a 6pt was standing right in my new lane, smelling the chainsaw I left there. Needless to say, the buck didn't give a rip, ate a couple fresh cut leaves and slowly walked off.
Now, starving deer in the dead of winter are known to do this, but this was in lush august. Go figure.

[Bear]

Hey Jesse. I stopped using the bottle several years ago and has made no difference. I actually see and kill more deer than ever these last few years. I don't think it's because of the pee, just saying it sure doesn't seem matter.

[KSdan]

A human smells like. . . a human!  All other things; bug-dope, aftershave, baby powder etc etc. including urine, may or may not be associated with human- at the same time, they may cause curiosity.

I quit worrying about it a long time ago when one of the better mature buck hunters I know was using some Brute # ?? for deodorant.  If the deer can smell your deodorant he already has smelled you! I also talked with Judd Cooney years ago at some event where he advocated using babypowder as a wind checker.  He liked the fact that it had a perfume odor as he could then catch the whiffs of scent in the air knowing how the thermals were drifting.  I hold with his view- an animal has no idea that baby powder is associated with a human.  

I have been using bug-dope in various settings the past few years and yet to notice any real problem.

A downwind mature deer has you nailed- period. Strategic access to the stand, your boots carrying foreign smells from the car and your human smelling pant-legs rubbing off on brush are far more a problem.  

My 2C
Dan in KS