A personal question...

[MonRiver]

Where do you, well, pee while hunting?  

This will be my first serious archery season and I'm hunting from the ground.  Should I take a bottle with me?

[Alexander Traditional]

Someone did a topic on this a while back and it got a lot of people posting. I always just go on the ground before I get to my stand,and if I have to go while I'm hunting I will and have never had it be a problem.

[Terry Lightle]

bottle

[Izzy]

Never into the wind.

[Roadkill]

Bottle then pour the contents around a pochers stand on  my way to the truck ---when I lived back east

[RedShaft]

i go rite there. i used to do the bottle thing. got tired of messing with it. i never had one spook cause of it. think of this how would a deer know your scent from another living thing? unless you went and the deer walked rite over and associated you with the scent how would it know? rite? my thoughts anyuhow    :D

[Recurve50 LBS]

Never into the wind or on a flat rock.

[Charlie Lamb]

Don't worry about it. Take it easy on the coffee before you hit the woods but do what you need to do once in the stand.

I worry more about the noise it makes and being in a compromised situation than anything.

Remind me to tell you the bread bag story some time. That's why I just go from the stand these days.

[L82HUNT]

Out of the tree.     Was going a few years back and was still "hanging out" when I shot a doe.   It has never seemed to be a problem.

[Bud B.]

Go before if you can. While in the stand I usually climb down, dig a shallow hole with my boot heel, fill it up and cover back up with lots of earthy smelling leaves.

Never #2 though, if at all possible. That carries and lingers no matter how deep your heel can go. But if you must, cover it with lots of damp leaves.

[Tater John]

While emptying my bladder of morning coffee I could smell it and so did the deer down wind 30 or more yards. It was a frosty morning with a soft breeze, rising thermal. They probably had a good idea where I was to begin with but I pin pointed my location to them. I go easy on the coffee now and still pee on the ground

Rusty

[landman]

I have never seen deer alarm at urine.

[Blackhawk]

Another myth that has been debunked...

5. Peeing From Your Stand Will Scare Deer Off: The old wives’ tale has it that if you do not bring along a pee bottle to your stand and answer nature’s call on the ground below, you may as well head for the house and find a new spot to. Research has shown, however, that the smell of human urine does not noticeably affect deer, if it affects them at all. One research project with penned deer had the researchers spraying all sorts of things into scrapes to see which deer liked best. In one case they used four things—buck urine, doe-in-estrous urine, human urine and car air freshener. Results? With bucks, doe-in-estrous was the most popular, followed by human urine, then car air freshener, then buck urine.

Stay as scent free as possible, and don’t turn the ground near your stand into a public urinal, but if you have to go, just go, and keep hunting.

[Rob W.]

Haven't worried about where I pee in many years.

[daveycrockett]

Originally posted by Alexander Traditional:
Someone did a topic on this a while back and it got a lot of people posting. I always just go on the ground before I get to my stand,and if I have to go while I'm hunting I will and have never had it be a problem.

x2

[Jon Stewart]

Bottle at every stand.

One time I got caught while crossing the Mackinaw bridge.  Traffic came to a dead stop for what seemed to be forever and then I remembered the cookies in the zip loc.  Dumped the cookies on the passenger seat and the rest of the story is history.

[njloco]

I make a mock scrape and pee on it.

[Bernie B.]

Charlie, I,m not sure we want to hear the "bread bag" story.    

Bernie Bjorklund

NC Iowa/SW Wisconsin

[Gen273]

I am 100% sure that human pee does not spook or bother deer. Therefore, I just pee in the woods; i do use a bottle in a stand sometimes, but just because of noise and not smell.

[centaur]

As Izzy so eloquently put it, not into the wind, but besides that, wherever the urge strikes.