As the title goes. For a few years, I have read different opinions on human pee and deer gut piles. This year I committed to learning firsthand what I would experience with human pee and by luck, I got to experience multiple deers reaction to a deer gut pile. Human Pee For years I have been peeing in a bottle in my stand then taking it away from my stand and dumping it at the end of the hunt. I would do this in rifle season also from by natural ground blind. This year I committed to peeing in the bottle and then dumping it somewhere within a few steps of my stand or in front of a camera I have setup about 40 yards away. After multiple hunts, I have experienced zero negative reaction to dumping it in either location. In fact, I have photos of both deer and bear smelling it <60 minutes from pouring it out multiple times (I do ensure I pour it out on bare ground. Not sure if that makes a difference vs on leaves). So moving forward, I have no issue clearing a spot and dumping at will. I don't pee out of the stand as it's darn loud and I don't really want pee spread all over the brush tops and leaves. Deer Gut Pile Read prior how gut piles are a natural occurrence to deer, which makes a lot of sense to me. I have also read advice to leave a stand-alone for a few days after a deer kill as it messes up the spot. Well, I got lucky and shot a buck in the PA rifle season last weekend. Gutted the deer, on the spot, loaded him up in a cart, and handled it. I went back to my same spot 2 hours later and sat with my father for the rest of the day. We had 4 doe, 4 different buck walk past the gut pile. None of them acted unnaturally nor were spooked by it. They were all within feet of that spot, at different times of the day. One of the buck bedded down 40 yards from it for a half hour. I am sure many factors are at play however, passing along as my new lived experiences from the season.
As far as the human pee, that myth has been debunked for quite a while and essentially within minutes, human pee turns into ammonia anyway so deer don't know what animal (or human) did it.
Exactly. I pee out of my stand fairly often (at 68 an enlarged prostate) with zero effect on deer coming in close. None.
I use to use a piss bottle, esp. at locations that were hunted several times during the season ... now, I just piss out of the tree (easier now that my prostate has been reamed out), I dont hunt the same locations as often either .. Ive pissed in scrapes and still deer use 'em ...
