RE: gotta pee, what do i do?
Treestandstealth,
As you can see there are a lot of opinions out there. I too have seen on occasion deer not be worried about something I thought they would perceive as a threat. However, I've had does come right under my stand and continue out into a clearing and start eating grass about an hour before dark, followed by a spike, who stopped just about under my stand about 20 yards inside the woods. Next was a six pointer who was a little more slow and cautions. But the fairly mature eight pointer stood about 150 yards back inside the woods. The only reason I even decided to start looking back there was that the first two bucks kept looking back in his direction. He never came out. Does are stupid. Young bucks are ignorant, and mature bucks are bucks who used to be ignorant but learned to stay away from danger (notice I didn't say humans). I wonder why that eight pointer didn't come out? Was it that I hadn't pissed on the ground? Or because he smelled something suspicious. All they have to have is a bad feeling about it and they are gone. Unlike people who piss on the ground, they aren't lazy. But I think more hunters should walk 100 yards or less in the woods and piss on the ground, smoke, eat drink, litter, because after all,deer don't know what human is, right? They've never been to a 7-11 and witnessed people buying tabacoo. Those people increase my odds. Becausethe deer willget a false sense of security when others don't practice these habits and get closer in, and they'll make a mistake.
As far as pissing on a scrape, yeah I've heard that the buck might be confused and think you're a rival buck since there is testosterone in your piss. But if that is how you're going to hunt, meaning get buck angry and looking for fight, then do it right and put some buck urine on his scrape and put yours in a bottle.
It's like seatbelts - yeah there's always someone who says "I know a guy that would have died if he were wearing his, so I aint wearing one". And he may be right about that situation, but look at what makes since and use good judgment. You didn't spend all that time scouting, practicing with your bow and being scent free to piss off the stand.