What do you guys think of human urine as a scent?

[Pinwheel5]

I have never used it as an attractant but I will pee off a treestand any time I need to and not worry about it. I have read in 5 minutes it all smells the same anyway.

[Wisconsinboy]

i have never tried it but i pee off my stand so i guess it cant hurt.

[ruttinbuc]

Who knows for sure. I read someplace that if you stop eating meat a month before the season a deer supposedly won't pick up on a chemical produced in a PREDATOR'S urine. They say that is why Fox Urine can be an alarm to deer. It has happened to me many times when I used to use it. Use raccoon cover now and then. Never a problem.

I can remember watching a buck stop on a spot I thought was off the trail to investigate a "couldn't hold it" spot and bolt the nanosecond after smelling it.

It might also be one of those association things in high pressure areas.. Some will tell you it doesn't matter. I'd rather be safe than sorry.

[sureshot]

I have read both ways in the past, but 2 years ago I found out the truth! I was driving a back road spotting and the 30oz slurpee was to much liquid LOL, I went in the ditch, I checked m,y spots out and when I came back about 1 1/2 hours later there was 5 mule bucks right in the ditch were I went! I am not sure it attracted them[it was august] but I am sure it did not scare them!!

[Tominator]

i've posted about this in the past, and yep, i've used it.

long time ago there was this guy in michigan and he had his own show. he called it Michigan Outdoors. the guy's name was Fred Trost. it was a good show until he took on Buckstop scent company. he challenged that their doe urine was'nt real and it didn't work as promised. he ended up in court, and long story short, he lost, and i haven't heard of him since.

anyway, during his "proof phase" of debunking doe scents he set up a blind and about 30 yards away from the blind he dumped a bottle of Aqua Velva, then took a couple of steps dumped a bottle of ammonia, then took a couple steps and dumped a bottle of buckstop scent, and on the final dumping he dumped a bottle of his cameraman's own pee. then he filmed a bunch of deer coming into the various piles of scent.

what blew me away was that the most visited scent dump was the human urine! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]. even stranger was the fact that a fair amount of deer went over to the aqua velva aftershave. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]. the second most visited scent dump was the ammonia.

anyway, it convinced me to bottle my own pee and use it. the first time i used it i had a doe and fawn walk right up to it, sniff it, and walk right under me. then about 10 minutes later a little 9pt buck walked up to the post i dumped it on and he actually started licking the fence post! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] God as my witness! i couldn't believe it. i've used "slightly aged" urine ever since off and on. i don't collect it if i've had garlic or coffee or something like that, but yeah gross as it sounds, i use it.

if you know anything about chemistry, (which i do not [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]) you know that all urine has uric acid in it and that breaks down into ammonia over time. ever empty a cat's litter box? smells like ammonia doesn't it? i've never used straight ammonia, but i'm tempted to someday.

if you're thinking of using your own pee, try it. i would suggest you age it a couple days first to get a bit of an ammonia scent to it though.

[iron buck]

Well if it works the price sure is better than the commercial brands LOL [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

I have tried this a few time over the past few years and have had deer come right in and pause at the "doctored" scrapes.

As a rule I do not use scents very much of any kind. I would much rather remain in the stealth mode and not alert the deer at all to my presence

[Tominator]

Sorry, wanted to add this to my favorites since it comes up so much.

[arrow32]

Well heck if it works ill use it to.

[bigbucks]

if tryed making my own and peeing on it lmao...and the next day there was 3 scrapes around it so...i dont know

[puffy]

Haven't had any Deer shy away because of it, thats for sure. This season was no exception in that wherever I relieved myself deer had passed by without alarm or curiosity. It can't hurt to use what comes natural.

[rockefeller66]

huh, I have peed on stand, just about every time out and the deer don't mind, I have 2 popes on the wall and they haven't been bothered by it. I think I might try that next year and put one of our trail cams over a mock scrape using this method!

[Turkeystalker]

Good info... I had a 10 point buck walk under my stand after I peed and dip spit all day long. When I first got to my stand I dropped some wildlife research center doe estrus out around my stand. He came right underneath my stand and his lip was curling up and he was grunting and pawing at the ground.

[deerhntnwithdogs]

I guess it just depends on the amount of hunting pressure the deer see. In one part of our land locally it wouldnt bother them probably but on the other end of the field they would be gone like a bat outta ****. I guess its just the way the deer feel.

[ODH]

ill give it a try next season

[dg]

I've taken a leak off the stand only to have 2 out of 5 deer make a beeline at 45 dgrees from the intended course they were taking from my stand, sniff around, mill on some acorns and then slowly walk off to follow the other deer unalarmed. A couple other times I've had does sniff "the area" unalarmed. Now lay your hand on a tree or limb they follow and they have bolted. But urine only? No cause for alarm.