Elk urine?

[Tbob]

Do any of you guys use this while you're out hunting? If so, when is the appropriate time to use it and how do you use it? Spray it on trees, your clothes, your boots? Also do you use bull or cow and why? Thanks!

[4fletch]

I love the smell of elk urine. Can't get enough of it. I tape a small rag on the bow and sometimes dedicate a cap for the season if I'm stalking. I prefer cow but whatever is available. The reason I use it is so if I get winded they really don't know if I'm a elk or something in between. Had a spike wind me year before last he hung up 30 yards down wind and looked right at me for 3 mimutes or so turned and walked away. Fooled many a elk with urine. If I'm in a tree stand I'll hang a rag and spray it down.  Good hunting

[Elkrunner]

Careful with the bottle.  I left a bottle in my truck right after hunting season last year.  The heat made the damn thing explode.  That took quite a while before my truck started smelling normal. 

[krout81]

LOL that is funny.  I love middle of week 1 to the end when I wind myself and think I smell an elk.  I live to wallow in their poop and pee whenever I come across it fresh. 

[Tjv28]

I've tried it, but I prefer to just keep the wind in my face. When you have it on you you can't tell if you are smelling your self or actual elk. Maybe if I was in a tree stand I'd try it again.

[92xj]

I drink it. After my long hard hikes into my setup I'm sweating elk urine real good. It's like what garlic and onions do. Id advise taking it in shot form and not sipping it. It took a few years for the guys in camp to believe me and watching my drink it but they are all on board now and are very successful in the woods.

[jackmaster]

I will try to make this a short story. A kid I grew up use to drink and smoke pot all the time, well he got drunk one night and the next morning his dad drug v m out of bed to go elk huntn, fastforward, here this kid is, hungover , moping , and just being a sissy lala, he is sitting on a stump, takes out a bottle of elk piss and is sitting there squirting it all over, then decides he has to take a dump, but forgot butt wipe in the truck, walks to truck, gets butt wipe and does his business and heads back to stump and low and behold a stud of a 5pt bull, short horned but heavy, he is ripping the earth apart wherever this kid sprayed the elk piss, he manages to kill it and of course the hangover goes away and now he is the big bad boy elk Hunter... tell me again how karma works.. haha.. so I am guessing if you get the right stuff it could work, it sure worked for this idiotic kid..

[Labs07]

When I find fresh urine I just pick it up and rub it on my clothes!  Best cover scent in my book.

[jackmaster]

If this is about cover scent then wood smoke from a camp fire cant be beat..

[Elkrunner]

I drink it. After my long hard hikes into my setup I'm sweating elk urine real good. It's like what garlic and onions do. Id advise taking it in shot form and not sipping it. It took a few years for the guys in camp to believe me and watching my drink it but they are all on board now and are very successful in the woods.

I guess thats why everyone else is getting elk and not me!  Im going to have to drink the juice this year! 

[Alchase]

This thread makes me happy I hunt rifle, LOL

[Elkrunner]

This thread makes me happy I hunt rifle, LOL

Rolling in elk turds and piss is part of the experience.  Its not for everyone, thats why we need our own season for archery. 

[fuzznuts]

Not as smooth as Pendleton but will do in a pinch!

[hoof rot]

my fav way to use elk piss is to apply some cow piss on the ground or a stick with a cam set up on it to get a idea on what bulls r around, it works as a lure too

[WapitiTalk1]

I've toyed around with it many, many years ago with less than noteworthy success.  To answer your question, no I do not use elk scent at all.  I certainly wouldn't consider using it on my person (clothes, boots, whatever) while run and gun, elk hunting during the rut.  I imagine it may have a place in some tree stand or ground blind hunting situations but honestly, in a tree stand or ground blind setup you're targeting a set up by some sort of natural attractor (wallow, water point, trail intersection, saddle, etc.) and there is really no need to complicate things with Elk Chanel #5.  Just my .02.     

[Tbob]

Right on! Thanks for all the replies.. Man that stuff sure does smell though! Wheeew..

[curtmdavis]

Rolling in elk turds and piss is part of the experience.  Its not for everyone, thats why we need our own season for archery.

                                      ............Stealing this 

[Jonathan_S]

My favorite thing to do with Elk Urine is read stories about you guys rubbing it into your clothes   

[Special T]

A hunting buddy I have would cut the piss patch off anyones elk at camp and put it in a ziplock bag. He would put it on ice and or freeze it for the next year. Before he took off for the days hunt he would rub that patch over his  arms and legs.

[Jonathan_S]

The thing with cover scents, these animals have complex and sensitive noses so I don't think there is any very effective cover scent.  Not to say nobody ever benefited from rubbing such god awful things on them.  That said, I'll work the wind and not get piss all over my stuff.

A hunting buddy I have would cut the piss patch off anyones elk at camp and put it in a ziplock bag. He would put it on ice and or freeze it for the next year. Before he took off for the days hunt he would rub that patch over his  arms and legs.

Wow.  That is nasty.  What I recommend is cutting that sucker off and throwing it as far away as possible. 

[BULLBLASTER]

The thing with cover scents, these animals have complex and sensitive noses so I don't think there is any very effective cover scent.  Not to say nobody ever benefited from rubbing such god awful things on them.  That said, I'll work the wind and not get piss all over my stuff.

A hunting buddy I have would cut the piss patch off anyones elk at camp and put it in a ziplock bag. He would put it on ice and or freeze it for the next year. Before he took off for the days hunt he would rub that patch over his  arms and legs.

Wow.  That is nasty.  What I recommend is cutting that sucker off and throwing it as far away as possible. 

that is step one when I walk up to a dead bull in the rut. Cut that skin off and throw it at whoever I am hunting with. 

[Jonathan_S]

 

noted

[Special T]

The thing with cover scents, these animals have complex and sensitive noses so I don't think there is any very effective cover scent.  Not to say nobody ever benefited from rubbing such god awful things on them.  That said, I'll work the wind and not get piss all over my stuff.

A hunting buddy I have would cut the piss patch off anyones elk at camp and put it in a ziplock bag. He would put it on ice and or freeze it for the next year. Before he took off for the days hunt he would rub that patch over his  arms and legs.

Wow.  That is nasty.  What I recommend is cutting that sucker off and throwing it as far away as possible. 

Its even funnier when he wiped mimself down before busting out his sammich for lunch!

[dscubame]

I've tried it, but I prefer to just keep the wind in my face. When you have it on you you can't tell if you are smelling your self or actual elk. Maybe if I was in a tree stand I'd try it again.

 

[scoutdog346]

I use the stuff only cuz it prob smells better then me to elk.  I worry if it fosters laziness in me and hope i never tell myself i dont need to walk 200yards around them elk cuz its ok if they smell the piss i have on.  Also i still haven't smelled store bought elk piss that smells like real elk or real elk piss. One thing i jave done is find some fresh elk piss soaked into dirt and picked it up with a plastic baggie and double it up and hope that the elk is an estrous put in the freezer and use it next year in the same area in the same  hopefully same genetics at least...lol

[head hunter]

I have used it ever since I started bow hunting. It has saved my butt more than once. I keep a bottle of Wayne carltons estrus spray in my pocket. I pulled a 380 plus once from down wind at over two hundred yards with just a cow call and spraying it every few steps. Got him to less than twenty yards and clipped a limb and hit him in the shoulder blade and lost him. Tough day, but it works great at times.

[usmc74]

I used to use skunk screen in my early days bow hunting.  By the end of season, I couldn't smell it anymore.

That was 35 years ago, and I still cannot smell skunk