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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
TheLBLman said:
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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I was bowhunting (yes, really!) on a cold morning just as the acorns started to fall. Perched up in a white oak, I let it rip from the stand. Still in midstream, a doe and her two fawns came running in to find the acorns they could hear falling. The three of them literally stood directly below me eating acorns that were steaming with piss.
 
TheLBLman said:
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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Dang man ....pizz on 'em ! 🤣
 
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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That's exactly what I was told as well however I don't find it to be true in my experiences. I don't find that peeing in scrapes affects mature buck movement in any type of a negative way I really think that the location of the scrape is way more important than peeing in it or not peeing in it. Sometimes a scrape will get real hot and every deer in the area will hit it for one season and then it'll die and I don't care how many times you pee in it the following season they simply don't come back. Other scrapes they'll stay hot for multiple years. I have one scrape that I have monitored for about the last 6 seasons it's about 10 feet and diameter and has probably 25 licking branches off of it , I've had more negative deer encounters there do to an animal seeing the camera versus peeing in that scrape hundred to one…
 
tree_ghost said:
That's exactly what I was told as well however I don't find it to be true in my experiences. I don't find that peeing in scrapes affects mature buck movement in any type of a negative way I really think that the location of the scrape is way more important than peeing in it or not peeing in it. Sometimes a scrape will get real hot and every deer in the area will hit it for one season and then it'll die and I don't care how many times you pee in it the following season they simply don't come back. Other scrapes they'll stay hot for multiple years. I have one scrape that I have monitored for about the last 6 seasons it's about 10 feet and diameter and has probably 25 licking branches off of it , I've had more negative deer encounters there do to an animal seeing the camera versus peeing in that scrape hundred to one…
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Well said tree_ghost. I really think these shifts in which scrapes are active in a given year is driven by a combination of habitat changes from year to year and variations in the acorn crop. I often see one set of hot scrapes in a good acorn year and another set of scrapes in a poor acorn year. But that would make sense as travel patterns change between good and poor acorn years.
 
BSK said:
I really think these shifts in which scrapes are active in a given year is driven by a combination of habitat changes from year to year and variations in the acorn crop. I often see one set of hot scrapes in a good acorn year and another set of scrapes in a poor acorn year. But that would make sense as travel patterns change between good and poor acorn years.
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I think that there is exactly correct. Deer won't go out of their way to hit/make a scrape if other deer aren't going to be around to notice it. They seem to prefer the high traffic areas. For being creatures that are susceptible to social stress they sure spend a lot of time searching for & keeping tabs on one another. Always thought that was odd. It's like they're as bunch of introverts that don't like being alone.
 
I've killed several 4.5 year old plus bucks that were standing within yards of where I've peed. The biggest sniffed around for a few seconds and didn't seem uneasy at all.

Back in the late 80's and 90's, I carried a pee bottle because we were told to do that. After watching a few bucks tear several mock scrapes apart that I'd peed in, I quit worrying about it.

Good thing too, because I'm a diet drink freak, and I'm constantly sipping one. Plus, I can overflow a 20oz. bottle in one episode. I'd have to carry a gallon milk jug as much as I pee.
 
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I bottle it up. I also use the cough silencer. I want every advantage against the deer I can.

Just kidding. I don't use any of it. 😂
 
I used to be really paranoid about pissing in my hunting area but, for the last at least 20 years, I don't worry about it. And it doesn't seem to bother them. I piss in bucks scrapes too.
 
tdt5446 said:
I am double impressed!
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Somebody on here said they crapped in a Gatorade bottle years ago. I been laughing at that thought in my mind for a long time. If you using your binos and seen somebody in the stand squatted over a Gatorade bottle not sure my first thought would be he's trying to crap in this thing.
 
Due to the recent interest in the market, I'm selling buck pee $35+shipping
Pissing Circle Of Life GIF by Four Rest Films
 
A really nice buck I killed with a bow, super cold morning. I had been holding it because I was seeing so many deer. Finally about 10 am movement slowed down. Just after pee started hitting the leaves, a buck came trotting out of a thicket, nose up in the air winding, I couldn't stop had been holding to long. When I got finished, I grabbed my bow and shot him at 10 yards. He didn't go far.
 

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