Pee Jug

[yomomma]

Nobody who has hunted big game for any length of time would suggest that scent and wind direction don't matter, unless of course they prefer "tag soup." I have countless examples of being scented by game hundreds of yards away. Just my opinion based on my experiences.

My hunting experience realy realy pales to you experience.

There are thousands of variables to hunting.

The main thing I have learned is that as soon as you say an animal always will, it won't. As soon as you say an animal never will, they will.

Was leaving the bush from turkey hinting and decided to take a piss near a fence line. Heard a noise behind me. When I turned around I locked eyes with a decent doe. It jumped the fence, now it was within 6 feet. Looked at me once more and began trotting down the trail I just came from.

I swear I could hear it laughing as it went!

 

[Big Bad]

A red colour wide mouth nalgene bottle with its use written on the lid is good for all urinary occasions. Camping for instance, used to find myself getting up and unzipping the tent and stepping out into rain storms, then got wise.

 

[J.Hancock]

I never understood the pee jug concept, but then again I am a savage. If I were in a survival situation and I had a jug, I'd probably pee in it just to conserve fluids

 

[Norton]

I use a pee jug when I’m in tree stands bow hunting, but no where else while I’m wandering around.
I piss in mock scrapes occasionally when I’m first making them until I see they are being used, I do not piss in real scrapes. I carry a 900ml tupperware type thing with me to make mock scrapes, I dig dirt out of real scrapes and put it on the mock scrapes every chance I get. I much prefer doing that than pissing in them.
When I make mock scrapes, I only do it to create a location that’s more advantageous to a shot.

The trail camera movies show the deer react more to the human scent in the area of the mock scrapes, depending how much I stomp around, cut branches and all that. In a couple days when the human stink has dissipated from the area the bucks don’t show any concern about human pee in the mock scrape if I do that. They show way more interest in the mock scrapes with the moved dirt in them from real scrapes than the human pissed in ones though.

When the time is right, sometimes I’ll sprinkle Tinks 69 estrous doe scent around at trail crossings or scrapes to try and get bucks to sniff around and provide a longer time for a shot. I get mixed results with that. Sometimes they linger sniffing around, other times they will just cruise on by, probably already following a doe foot path that has the proper aroma to it

 

[Big Bad]

My hunting experience realy realy pales to you experience.

There are thousands of variables to hunting.

The main thing I have learned is that as soon as you say an animal always will, it won't. As soon as you say an animal never will, they will.

Was leaving the bush from turkey hinting and decided to take a piss near a fence line. Heard a noise behind me. When I turned around I locked eyes with a decent doe. It jumped the fence, now it was within 6 feet. Looked at me once more and began trotting down the trail I just came from.

I swear I could hear it laughing as it went!

I see all my best deer when out for grouse, and deer hunters see all the good grouse.

 

[John Y Cannuck]

Fresh pee that smells like bacon, is not an attractant.

Wind, both your friend, and your enemy. This morning I watched does trotting down wind out of sight, and then up wind again to out of sight, then back down wind. A six point was in pursuit. They were cross wind from me, and too far out for crossbow.
Winds this morning are light, but steady. If any of them at any point had passed my down wind side, they'd likely have been gone, but, maybe not. Morning thermals can be your friend.

The deer running up and down wind? Yes, they do that, but only running their own back trail for a bit in this case, running over an area they just came through and know is safe. There are other instances where deer will run down wind as well. Sometimes it's just the only way to escape.

All that said IMO, they would prefer to run upwind, or crosswind.

 

[Adrian J Hare]

I do also and your not wrong

 

[jjohnwm]

I really don't care if studies show that human urine is like catnip to deer. I have used a pee bottle when doing any stand hunting for 5 decades and don't intend to stop. There are numerous things about hunting that I love and anticipate all year...and the smell of stale urine under or near my stand isn't one of them.

I do essentially all my deer hunting on foot from my back door; usually sit on stand all day, from pre-dawn to post-dark. I always bring food and drink, so an empty bottle walking out in the morning is no big deal, and a full one coming back at night is the same weight as the stuff I ate and drank throughout the day.

If I am hunting other game further from home, it won't be stand hunting and I won't carry a pee bottle...but I will still be very picky about where I pee and it won't be near anywhere I hope or expect to see an animal. Just seems disrespectful and wrong. YMMV.

 

[meatsticks]

Fred Trost is a moron, and those "experiments" were conducted from a permanent stand where deer were baited year round and were habituated to human scent... they were curious about which human was delivering dinner... I would not use those particular shows as the basis for a hypothesis. Trost was trying to prove that scent doesn't matter... is there any hunter worth his salt who believes that?

Anyone that doesn’t think the wind can bust them is out to lunch. That is a bigger deal than anything in my opinion. I have a number of fixed stands out for the season. Urine doesn’t seem to have any appreciable impact. The wrong wind sure does! I also see mention by some above of the belief that urine will be a factor if sitting in the same stand all week. Sitting in the same stand all week will be a much bigger factor in negatively effecting their hunting quality than the piss will!