Is it safe to pee off your stand?

I usually can save it until I take a break at midday. I have not hunted the same stand morning and evening in years. I have not seen a deleterious effect from an occasional whiz of the stand, but it also helps to not use the same stand every day you’re out. I mix it up quite a bit– I have close to twenty and blind locations on 20 acres. Outside of a couple favorites, I try not to hit the same location twice in a week.

I even built an outhouse on the back of the property in easy reach of several of my morning stands so that I could answer nature’s call:

Shaman’s Outhouse

On some mornings it saves me a half mile walk back to the farmhouse. I can drop by, transact some business, and switch stands.

There’s one thing that fascinates me about this topic. It seems that I know of no better way to bring deer to you than to have to yield to the call of nature. I don’t know how many times I’ve been busted in the middle of a bodily function. In fact I can think of a couple of times that I managed to score a deer as a direct result of this.

In one instance, I had gotten up from a morning of stump sitting. I was paying the rent on the thermos of strong coffee I had packed when an entire herd of deer nearly trampled me. I managed to shoot a doe out of the herd. It was my first deer.

In another instance, I got the urge after a couple hours of sitting in a makeshift ground blind. I went down to the creek, about 50 yards away when I managed to spook a small mixed herd. I went back and sat down on my stool. The herd decided to take a different way past the man with his pants down, and took a path directly past me back on my stool. I slipped an arrow into the brisket of a button buck at under 10 yards while his sister was looking at me through the 4X6 camo netting at under 3 feet.

In several instances, I’ve answered the call only to find a deer standing by and watching. They wait until I’m getting ready to leave and then snort furiously as they realize the show is over and leave. In every case, the deer seem transfixed. I guess they are as fascinated with our bodly functions as a young toddler might be.

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