RE: Relieving yourself in the woods?
Who else, that movie was Doc Hollywood which was a good movie until they started the anti hunting peeing routine.
I will tell this story for what it' s worth concerning relieving yourself. I had finished hunting one morning and was standing on a logging road looking down hill at a sage field. I was waiting for my pardner and when he showed up we talked while standing there, not trying to be quite. The wind was blowing down the hill over the sage field. The urge hit me and I said excuse me and turned away and hung it out. A few seconds after the urine started flowing, deer started jumping up all over that sage field. They were bedded in there and the talking didn' t bother them but as soon as they smell my urine they broke like hell, blowing and running like the dickens. Maybe my urine had a particularly bad odor that day, I don' t know, but it sure as heck broke the deer out. I also know a guy in Alabama that does a lot of hunting with drives involving two or more people. When the shooters get set, this guy urinates so the wind will carry the smell through the area being driven. He says alot of times that will jump the deer and the drive isn' t necessary.
That' s my two cents worth and except for this experience, I can' t deny anything anybody else has said. Theres' been times when I had to go from my stand and had deer come by 15 minutes later. So what' s the answer, I' m not sure, but I try to take as few chances to scare the deer as possible but I won' t bust my bladder to do it.