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Is my general hunting spot ruined?
- Thread starter RP-MA-978
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Last deer I shot I took a piss next to where I was sitting about 10 minutes before the deer walked in. My wife's first deer she shot.....same thing....nature called only a few minutes before the deer came by.
I know it's not the same as a dump but......you sure didn't ruin the whole spot imo.
one-eyed Jack
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Just don't piss in a scrape. If you do, be careful if you bend over. Jack.
There will be impact. A deer's nose is often underestimated by hunters. They can pick off your breath at a 1/4 mile. Of you drop a stink bomb, even of buried, it will have an impact. Hell just your ground scent from walking the 100 yards will have an impact.
How much? Well that depends on how pressured the deer are.. Heavily pressured animals will absolutely avoid anywhere they detect human scent. Especially where it's not common to encounter it, like off a trail.
Do you write off the spot.. Well no. But I wouldn't expect to see any mature animals walking by. Unless they get pushed by someone else, which could happen if you're in the right spot.
There is a lot happening in the woods during gun season. Animals get pushed around. But of it were archery I would write the spot off until next year.
How much? Well that depends on how pressured the deer are.. Heavily pressured animals will absolutely avoid anywhere they detect human scent. Especially where it's not common to encounter it, like off a trail.
Do you write off the spot.. Well no. But I wouldn't expect to see any mature animals walking by. Unless they get pushed by someone else, which could happen if you're in the right spot.
There is a lot happening in the woods during gun season. Animals get pushed around. But of it were archery I would write the spot off until next year.
bfm
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Gonna need more info to be truly helpful with this.
What were you last three meals? Any Taco Bell?
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What were you last three meals? Any Taco Bell?
Do you have a gluten sensitivity? Lactose issues?
Hemorrhoids?
How much fiber do you eat?
You can't compare though. Bear scat will have a very different scent and it won't be accompanied by human ground scent.
steven grammont
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What kind of a**h*** doesn't take his morning dump before going out hunting?
Signed ........ Uncle Steve
Signed ........ Uncle Steve
Does your wife get annoyed with you because you are a super-serious-take-everything-literally kind of guy?
Whiskeywon
NES Member
I guess he doesn’t know if a wild bear shits in the woods. Don’t be too hard on him.
Wickedcoolname
NES Member
I was on my way out to my stand a few years back when I came across a guy who had set up a ground blind a few feet off the main trail. The dude was sitting there heating up a can of soup with one of those little stoves that sounds like a jet engine. I could smell the soup and hear the stove when I was at least a hundred yards away. I would imagine the deer smelled it miles away.
My stand was about a 15 min walk from him and I sat there from noon until dark and never saw so much as a bird or a squirrel. Every now and then I swore I could still smell minestrone wafting in on the breeze but it might have been my imagination.
My stand was about a 15 min walk from him and I sat there from noon until dark and never saw so much as a bird or a squirrel. Every now and then I swore I could still smell minestrone wafting in on the breeze but it might have been my imagination.
Bigfudge16
NES Member
Whats your general hunting spot look like? Lot of human interaction or no? Got a big doe saturday after smoking 5 marlboros and taking a leak out of my tree stand, but i was also 300 yard away from houses
Maybe you should bottle this, make a fortune. "Piss and Cigarettes: Scents for Trophy Bucks". Maybe in the more equitable hunting spots you can bottle Menthol Cigarettes and Piss.
tuna
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One day I got into my spot well before sunup, and waited, and waited. About 9:00, some clown comes bumbling in, and plops his ass about 75 yards from me. I was going to bitch at him, but realized he was downwind and probably ruined my spot anyway: so I pulled my pants down and dropped a deuce. I hate to say, I didn't bury it or my TP. I hope I wrecked his day.
I'd be careful of anything you touch on that path.
I'd be careful of anything you touch on that path.
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Mark from MA
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I think your being a bit too serious, it all depends on where you hunt and how close to humanity you are. Deer get used to all sorts of everyday things.
I would never write off a spot or assume a decent deer wouldn't go by because someone took a shit 100 yards away....that's nuts. For all we know the smell from that shit taken 100 yards away could funnel a deer towards the stand if the deer comes in a certain way. Besides, Archery season is when the bucks are least bothered by stuff like that because they are running does. Your active scent that day in the stand, is probably the most detected thing when hunting, deer will absolutely smell that if you have the wrong wind. Wind direction is key.
When I hunted urban CT the mexican landscapers used to shit and piss everywhere and I shot deer everyday out of the same yard. Big bucks too. Scent didn't matter down there pretty much....some deer absolutely knew you were there but they came in and ate acorns anyway. They were used to humans.
HorizontalHunter
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Damn, that was you? That was Progresso BTW……I would have shared if you haven’t been so snooty.
Bob
Lol. That's what I would have bet money on.
Deer have excellent noses that we can't even comprehend how well they work. But it depends on the area we hunt, the deer that are there, what they are used to, etc. Deer in a suburban/rural area are used to people scent and are less likely to be spooked by any unusual smells. My scent is the last thing I worry about when I hunt.
Big Woods Deer are a different story.
SpaceCritter
NES Member
I dunno.
The way I smell on bike rides is rather notorious. Yet I still ride RIGHT UP TO them. In fact, it's funny: the worse I smell the more likely I'll have a deer encounter on a ride. Conversely, bears want to have NOTHING TO DO WITH ME. My bear encounters have been in clean, fresh-smelling gear.
FrankNA
NES Member
Deer are used to smelling humans and all the smells we generate, unless you're in a super remote area in the middle of nowhere. Most deer in wooded suburban and rural areas have grown up for generations with human interaction and are not as fearful or scent sensitive.
That's a different situation though bro... and the wind is king. Are you paying attention to the direction when you ride up on them? Are you paying attention to your speed relative to the wind so you know if you're outrunning your scent stream? Very different situation than a stationary source of odor that's emanating stink for hours and hours...
