Human Urine/Response From Deer

[QDMAworks4me]

If you have a 4.5 or 5.5 year old buck out of sight at a distance, how would you know if he spooked or not? Also, if he can smell your urine from a distance he can probably smell you....assuming there is a buck out of sight and he spooked, how would you know if the buck spooked from smelling the urine or from smelling you? The point I'm trying to make here is that we tend to make decisions based on what we read and/or what we assume rather than what we have experienced first hand. My personal experience (and from what I'm reading here, the experience of others) is that deer do not spook from the smell of human urine. In many cases it attracts them.

Try this....if you have one of this digicam deals, set it up where you know some deer (preferrably a buck) will come in. Deposit some human urine there, and see what the results are.... A video camera would be even better.

There are a lot of differnt view points on this, I have heard some say yes, human urine does affect deer movement and some say no it doesn't. There is no clear answer 100% one way or the other.

I have heard of people and know people that could not get deer out of the woods without going to get help and pee'd next to the deer to keep coyotes away and it worked. I know it worked because it was very close to the den and heard them howling that night and they were very close to where the deer was, any other deer would have been eaten when the person got back with help. So there just might be a difference in human urine smell, I just don't know. The coyotes knew it was not the smell of the deer's urine.

Also there are people that go out and have a few adult beverages, ok maybe alot of adult beverages (to clear this up I mean the night before they go hunting and have sobbered up for the hunt) or coffee or even some foods affect the smell of urine, what happens when you have that smell?? Deer don't usually recognize that smell. There are a lot of coffee drinkers on this forum that would say it does not, but there are some that say it would, I just am not willing to take that chance.

I will let you keep doing the experiments, I don't find it a bother at all to carry a bottle in the woods.

[ETexBow]

I know a guy that shot a great buck while he was bowed up taking a dump. Does that mean I can lean out against my safety strap when the urge hits me without having to worry about spooking the deer?

[Bowtech_archer07]

I've found the same thing. I've gotten caught once, and it was a big buck.. I ended up missing.... but he didn't seem to care.. Also someone that I know went from the stand and a doe came in and sniffed the tree he went on