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hastaking a dump in the same area you hunt ever affected the deer activity in your area?

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when you got to go, you GOT TO GO!! :D especially after a nite of vension and beer!!!! ;)

I do it all the time (when nature calls). I don't think it make one bit of difference (poop is poop). However, I do scrape back the leaves and try to cover it up a bit, just in case.

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Hey northernrut!! I usually crap somewhere a little bit away from where I spend the bulk of my time. I certainly won't leave the woods or anything, but I won't crap near the run I'm watching. I'll usually find the areas that my buddies are concentrating on and work my way in that direction when nature calls. Hey.....a Maine hunter!!!!!!! Come check us out at....

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dig a little hole and bury it llike a dog does.

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I told this story last year, and don't really like to retell this particular one, but you asked for it.
A couple years ago, I was sitting in my stand one morning, and the call of nature came and demanded an answer. I tried to hold it but there was NO way it was working. It came to an ultimatum where I was either going to get down and answer the call, or the call was going to end up in my camo pants. I climbed down as fast as I could and went running down the trail. I got about 15 yards from my tree and was faced with the act of going right there or going in my pants. I barely got my britches pulled down and away she went, all over the trail. I was upset that I just ruined my spot. I covered it somewhat, the best I could, but you could tell from the smell that something bad just happened there. I went down to the house for lunch and reluctantly returned to the stand a couple days later to hunt it. The biggest buck I ever saw or shot an arrow at came down the same trail, walked over the exact spot I messed, and came to me. I subsequently missed him (shaving white belly hair, but no wound) because of deflection. He never acted the least bit concerned with the bad mess I made though. He was a very big 11 point. To add insult to my bad shooting, he stepped back and smelled my arrow sticking in the dirt and then walked off, only running when I tried to nock another arrow and saw me move. I know I missed him clean because there was no fat or blood or anything whatsoever on the arrow. The only souvenier of our encounter was a little pile of white belly hair that I cut off when the arrow passed under him.

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You ever hear the saying...that's why hunters wear two part of socks into the woods! We always joke at camp because I won't go into the woods until after I go to avoid suchproblems.

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Thanks for all the great info. I'm not fortunate enough to plan such events. I'm glad there is a place I can go for such informative info and technical advice

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Just mind where your wallet is...my buddy got back to his stand after answering a call last season and realized his wallet was gone. He went back to the dump site and discovered that his wallet had fallen out of his hunting pants when he dropped them and he ended up with a pile of hot mud on top of it!

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More important than all of the comments above...don't forget to have a good supply of toilet paper. Those oak leaves are ROUGHHHHHH!

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I take a bunch of good paper towels and fold them up in my pack. Itrade them in the woods to poorly prepared hunters for their buck tags.:D

TIP..when going on a hunting trip, never eat the chili until the last day of the hunt.

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I've cut more than 1 pair of undies off you think after sacrificing a couple prs youd remember the toilet paper. I now wrap my grunt call in it so I don't 4get amazing how you always remember that

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one of my buddyies dropped his bullets in the "pile"!!! :D

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that is the most important piece of "equipment" in my fanny pack (and atv and turkey vest, and...)

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On the funny side of this issue, my brother has had bad luck and good luck while relieving himself in the woods. For the bad luck part, on one occassion he was so overwelmed for the need to take care of business that in his haste to do so he forgot where he placed his rifle and, well as you can guess, proceeded to take a power dump all over his rifle! LOL!

On the lucky end, onanother occassion just a few years ago,while he was in the middle of answering mother nature's call, he happened to spot a buck about 100 yards awayso hequickly grabbed his gun and shot the buck. Allwhile his pants weredown around his ankles! Talk about a s**t shot! I should be so lucky!

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does a bear sh*t in the woods... then so do i :)

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Charmin to Go™ has got to be the best innovation in hunting gear in the last decade . And remember , friends don't let friends eat Mexican the night before a hunt . ;)

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I try to go before, or to avoid caffeine and other things that "help it along" ;)

However, we are all human. I do try and get to a small stream or creek to do the bizin hope that the scent will be awash in the water. What else can you do?? LOL

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Soooooooo your theone stockingbrown trout in the drinking hole? I've been looking for you buddy.;)

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Years ago in North FL I was taking a dump and had placed my rifle next to a small scrub oak about 10ft from me. Well about 5 mins into doing my business, I looked to one side and thru the brush was a 12 pt starring at me. Well, my rear puckered, my brain went into overload and my knees turned to gell. I could not do anything about it and as soon as I moved, it did an about face spin and disappeared!

Deer are very curious about different scents, but this scent smelled ranked and it still came to investigate!

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5 minutes into it Rebel? Did you take a magazine or paper with you?

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Nope, bad case of constipation, maybe it was my pushing and groaning that brought itin?:D

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LOL, only when I have too...

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I'll take a dump in the woods and though I generally try to do it as far away as possible from where I'm hunting, I did once take one right beside the spot where my old man later came and sat and he had a magnificient buck still come right out to him later that morning (I didn't mention what I had done and I did cover with leaves and dirt). I've also pissed off the side of my tree stand and still had deer come out, so there you go. Not something I want to do, but when you have to go, you have to go.

Incidentally, I usually carry TP, but if I forget, the correct order of sacrificing your clothing is t-shirt sleeves, t-shirt itself, underwear, socks. :D

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well, here is way ole sproul does it..will no.2 spook deer,YOU BET IT WILL..i seen deer snort and disappear..it will ruin your hunting area..

soooooooooooo,here we go..i climb down out of my treestand,thats why i like a ladder stand..

next i use that real soft clear plastic drop clothes you can buy for painting around home..i lay that down on ground,then take a poo on it..

i then wrap it up and place it in a BIGPLASTIC ZIP LOCK BAG..no smell i can detect ..sometimes i put pine limbs over bag also..i do this even if i am not in tree so i dont ruin my spot..


i lost big buck last year because i could not get my plastic out of my pocket quick enough..that buck had 20 inch spraed ,9 point and i spooked it to another hunter..he said if i had not done that no.2 he would not have seen the buck..he said it snorted andhe turned around in his stand and got a shot..

lately when i have to go i cant get plastic out quick enough..oh well..

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I was ground hog hunting with my uncle. I had just made a shot on a hog, and it was his turn. I rolled out from under the rifle, and rolled over a large cow pie. Unfortunately for me, it was fresh, and runny. I had to ride home in the back of the truck, it was pretty bad. This happened 25 years ago, and my uncle still kids me about it. We were at my aunt's funeral last year and it was the only laugh he had in quite a while. He lives in Florida now and I sure do miss him. Tom.