RE: Peeing and Crapping From Your Tree Stand
I pee right from the stand. If disaster strikes (it's been known to) and I have to take a #2, I will get out of the tree and hike a ways from the stand to do it, usually 200+ yards and a direction or area that I know a deer is not likely to get close to.
Last season the buck Dan shot was actually headed on a trail about 100 yards away from him. Earlier that morning Dan had an emergency and left a present on that trail about 100 yards from his stand. That buck came cruising along, Dan says he hit the brakes about 50 yards from the pile, circled downwind and ended up right in front of Dan's stand. He pinwheeled him at 20 yards and would have never had a shot if he didn't leave that pile on the other trail...........[8D]. Talk about lucky.