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To Pee or not To Pee...

Pee Theory

  • Let it fly

    Votes: 113 83.7%

  • Bottle it up

    Votes: 8 5.9%

  • Pee in scrapes

    Votes: 58 43.0%

  • Don't pee in scrapes.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • All season long

    Votes: 50 37.0%

  • Just certain times

    Votes: 3 2.2%
  • Total voters
    135
BSK said:
Mmmm, best not to hold your breath. ;)
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Says the man that pees into a 20 oz bottle opening.


I kid. I kid. Your aim is definitely better than mine. Especially when digging through 8" of clothing.
 
BSK said:
I used to carry a "pee bottle" as well (usually a plastic 20 oz Mountain Dew bottle). Then I heard other researchers talking about the amazing results they were having peeing in scrapes. I didn't believe them until a tried it. Been peeing in scrapes and letting it fly out of the stand ever since (probably late 90s). But when it comes to peeing out of the stand, I intentionally create as much noisy with the pee as possible. And I've called numerous deer right to me. In the early season, I think it sounds like acorns falling. But closer to the rut, you can make it sounds like deer running (a chase) which can bring bucks running to see what is going on.
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What "action" do you give it to make sound like chasing…….
Hahahahahaha
 
Careful guys, I think he may be trying to seek one.
😂
 
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Interesting results so far. I was taught by my Uncle and Dad to bottle it when I was just starting out. Especially when bowhunting. If it wasn't for my own poor planning for an all day sit, I might still be toting around pee bottles
 
batten_down said:
Interesting results so far. I was taught by my Uncle and Dad to bottle it when I was just starting out. Especially when bowhunting. If it wasn't for my own poor planning for an all day sit, I might still be toting around pee bottles
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When I moved to Arkansas in 2017 the guys I talked to there thought I was lying and thought I was crazy when I told them I pee in scrapes. They were still hung up back in the "older" days where you bottled it and never took a pee in the woods. After a couple came hunting with me they finally believed me and caught on to it. There's still one guy from there that calls me crazy every year I send him a pic of me peeing in a scrape lol.
 
rem270 said:
When I moved to Arkansas in 2017 the guys I talked to there thought I was lying and thought I was crazy when I told them I pee in scrapes. They were still hung up back in the "older" days where you bottled it and never took a pee in the woods. After a couple came hunting with me they finally believed me and caught on to it. There's still one guy from there that calls me crazy every year I send him a pic of me peeing in a scrape lol.
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I've seen it work. Now I'm a believer. My uncle was the best hunter in the family. Serious bowhunter. He was a leave no trace guy. He was crazy abo8t scent control. But you talk about old school, no doe pee, no rattle bag, no gizmos or gadgets. He did carry a grunt call, but the only time he would use it was to turn a deer he could see already. No blind calling. And that's just how he was. Killed a lot of nice deer with his bow. And I wanted to be just like him. So when he said bottle it, that's what I did. I bet I did that for 25 years.
 
I try not to pee in the woods but if I have to choose between leaving or peeing I letter rip. Funny story about bottle peeing. My daughter was little and she took a Gatorade bottle and a round saw file and poked holes all in that bottle and left it in my backseat of my truck. I was giving an est at a Walmart and it hit me and I couldn't hold it so I grabbed that bottle from a week or so ago in the backseat. I had just gotten Marathon seat covers and let loose in that bottle and I felt this warm feeling all over my backside and was so confused until I remembered that noise from the back of her poking holes in the bottle. Those seat covers really repel water great and that was even worse for me. Had to go home and walk in with urine soaked pants. Of course the wife saw me walking funny and wasn't supposed to be home so early and then saw the soaked khakis. I showed her the bottle so she would believe me. Sorry to derail .... carry on.
 
batten_down said:
I killed my biggest buck ever (at the time) a few years ago. I was walking a secondary ridge into a spot I had picked out on the topo. I was only 600 or 700 yards from the truck and I was seeing all this hot sign. So I kicked some leaves away and peed in the mud hole and poured a little bit of Special Golden Estrous (I'm a fan) into it and stomped around in it. Thinking I would give the bottom of my boots a little mud bath. I worked down the ridge another couple hundred yards and was covered in fresh hot sign. I decided to hunt right there, no sense walking another mile in to a spot I'd never been to before. I slipped off the top of the ridge about a third of the way down, and picked out a tree. I had just got to the top when I caught movement about two hundred yards away. Here comes a beautiful three year old paralleling the ridge top, nose in the air. Coming right to me. I shot him at 15 yards and he never knew I was there.
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When Tinks first came out there was a warning on the bottle. It said do not apply on yourself as you can be attacked by a buck.
I shot a good 8pt dang near in my lap the first time I used it. I dip q tips and threw them around where I was sitting on my milk crate.
It worked. He was snotting and slobbering, raking low hanging limbs 10 yards from me when I shot him.
 
batten_down said:
Tough to know if you're being serious about the Test. I'm assuming you are. You think they can pick up on that? I guess that explains my success with it. 😎
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Yes, I think the bucks are responding to the testosterone in the pee. I experimented for a while with female pee, and regardless of the woman's personal cycle, I still got FAR more responses from male pee. Remember, a scrape is primarily a male-to-male communication device.
 
TNTreeman said:
I try not to pee in the woods but if I have to choose between leaving or peeing I letter rip. Funny story about bottle peeing. My daughter was little and she took a Gatorade bottle and a round saw file and poked holes all in that bottle and left it in my backseat of my truck. I was giving an est at a Walmart and it hit me and I couldn't hold it so I grabbed that bottle from a week or so ago in the backseat. I had just gotten Marathon seat covers and let loose in that bottle and I felt this warm feeling all over my backside and was so confused until I remembered that noise from the back of her poking holes in the bottle. Those seat covers really repel water great and that was even worse for me. Had to go home and walk in with urine soaked pants. Of course the wife saw me walking funny and wasn't supposed to be home so early and then saw the soaked khakis. I showed her the bottle so she would believe me. Sorry to derail .... carry on.
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Reminds me of one of my personal disasters. Back before I learned pee doesn't scare deer and I was still carrying an empty 20 oz bottle with me, I was in a stand on a really cold morning. If I remember correctly, it was about 25 degrees. I was so bundled up I really didn't want to have to fish through all the layers of clothes so I held my pee until it got painful. Not being able to take it anymore, I started fishing through layer after layer - insulated coveralls, heavy wool military surplus pants, two layers of long underwear, etc. And remember, it's so cold I really need someone to kick me in the butt to pop the little inverted sucker back out. Finally getting everything lined up, or so I thought, and let 'er rip. It was like someone had turned on a firehose inside my pants. Pee is spraying everywhere. I can feel pee running down inside my long underwear. Pee is flying all over my clothes, hand muff and pack. And of course, once started, it's almost impossible to stop a stream under that much pressure. Eventually the firehose stream petered out [see what I did there ;)]. I just stood there, not knowing what to do. There was so much pee running out my pant legs and off my clothes, and off my stand that it sounded like rain hitting the leaves below. Completely defeated, I packed up and called it a morning. Sloshed my way back to the truck and headed back to camp. Spent the rest of the day washing all my clothes, pack, hand muff and everything I had with me.
 
One of my favorite deer I killed, aged at 4-1/2 by LBL check station, got downwind of a scrape I had peed in. First time I knew for sure a buck had winded where I peed in a scape, right before I climbed the tree, maybe 20 minutes before. He threw his head up and started winding. Not far away, maybe 80 yards, but to thick for a shot at his vitals. I was thinking he was going to spook. After a couple minutes, he trotted to the scrape I peed in and stuck his nose in it. I dropped him in his tracks. My dad didn't know what to think when I came into camp with that 10 pointer. Since he passed on April 13, I think about that hunt even more. My dad was so excited for me. This pic is of him "giving his knowledge" on deer hunting. Our camp (my brother, his buddy Porter, my brother and myself) were all listening. Loved hunting (and fishing) with him.
 

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So personally I bottle it up. I don't think straight urine would hurt but I take supplements that in my opinion changes my urine when it is processed. Any of you that have ever taken a strong multivitamin know what I mean. Your urine turns that brighter color the first few times you pee after taking it. I also use fish oil, ZMA, BCAA, zinc, Vitamin D (my body doesn't absorb Vitamin D well so I double up the dosage) and consistently drink three protein shakes a day. It may not really matter but I figure why chance it. During an all day sit I carry in a good sized pack attached to my tree stand and carry in several bottles of water with me and one empty one to start off with. That being said you will find half a can of copenhagen under my stand after the same sit so go figure.
 
Headhunter said:
One of my favorite deer I killed, aged at 4-1/2 by LBL check station, got downwind of a scrape I had peed in. First time I knew for sure a buck had winded where I peed in a scape, right before I climbed the tree, maybe 20 minutes before. He threw his head up and started winding. Not far away, maybe 80 yards, but to thick for a shot at his vitals. I was thinking he was going to spook. After a couple minutes, he trotted to the scrape I peed in and stuck his nose in it. I dropped him in his tracks. My dad didn't know what to think when I came into camp with that 10 pointer. Since he passed on April 13, I think about that hunt even more. My dad was so excited for me. This pic is of him "giving his knowledge" on deer hunting. Our camp (my brother, his buddy Porter, my brother and myself) were all listening. Loved hunting (and fishing) with him.
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Great buck. And great memories. Thank you for sharing. This will be my 9th season without my Dad. One of my favorite things to do is go back through the old albums and reminisce.
 
I actually pack in soup & coffee for long stand sits, in part for the purposefully plan of peeing more often. Best deer call that exists is simply pee hitting the ground, and the louder the better.

I've never had a deer spook from either the sound or the aroma of human urine.
I've even urinated on deer below me without their spooking.
 

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