Keeping it Real at ROW!
I had a tough situation this past year hunting. I had a personal problem that arose, I wasn’t quite prepared for or even thinking about until the problem had risen this fall.
I am all snuggled up in my treestand waiting for that perfect opportunity to shoot a nice deer. I am up high for everyone who was around me hunting could see me. When all of a sudden I realized I had to go to the bathroom. Oh No!!! I thought what do I do? Here I am all strapped up in my treestand with my Safety Harness on and being very very quite so the deer don’t realize I’m up in the treestand. Then this came along to bother me, and I ’m holding my bladder. I am holding it! and holding it! Until I couldn’t take it any more! I had to climb out of my treestand to what! You guessed it to go to the bathroom. I came out of my treestand and unhooked my saftey harness. I snuck into the tall corn field where I felt I had a little privacy; but to my amazement I was still bothered by this certain matter. The whole time I kept saying to myself “If the deer were going to come my way they won’t now, because I just scared them away!” I wasn’t quite prepared for this certain situation of letting your bladder go when it needed to.
I explained the situation to my hunting partner my husband and he laughed at me; but he wasn’t really laughing at me. He was laughing with me and about the problem I was having in the woods. So after this little episode he ordered me three “Go Girls” which I haven’t quite used them yet. I’m still embarrassed about the men hunting around me to watch the girl next door in the tree stand using a “Go Girl” in the woods.
So my questions goes out to all of you female hunters. Did this happen to you? and How did you deal with the situation that I had this past fall?
February 3, 2010
Georgette Wood
8 responses to “The Unexpected in the Woods”
Anne Vinnola
February 3rd, 2010 at 04:58
Nice work Georgette! You have a nice style.
Georgette Wood
February 3rd, 2010 at 05:08
Thank you Anne,
Thank you for all your support too!
Your Friend,
Georgette
Anne Vinnola
February 4th, 2010 at 04:22
Pretty! You HAVE been busy! YAY!
Georgette Wood
February 4th, 2010 at 04:32
Thank you Anne, I have been busy working on this I changed the title again and added a little Bio about myself on the page How I Became A Huntress.
njadams1
March 22nd, 2010 at 17:07
A wide mouth Nalgene bottle is my solution. I have used everything from zip-lock bags, SheWee, Go Girls and just plain held it until I was in absolute pain. The Nalgene bottle is perfect and you can use it in a shooting house and even in a climbing stand. AND you can use toilet paper. I just “strategically” place the “wide-mouth” bottle where it needs to be and when I am through I put the toilet paper right in the bottle, replace the lid tightly and throw it back in my backpack. When I get home or back to the lodge, I go straight in the bathroom and pull the Nalgene bottle out of my backpack and empty the entire contents in the toilet and flush. I rinse the bottle out with scent eliminating body wash that I use for the shower, add a squirt or two of scent eliminator spray I use in the field, screw the lid on tightly and put it right back in my backpack. Once I am home from the hunt at the end of the weekend I boil water in a tea kettle and I rinse the Nalgene bottle in the sink with the boiling water to sterilize it. Let it dry completely and toss it back in my backpack for the next hunt. WORKS LIKE A CHARM!! I made sure to get a bottle that I would NEVER confuse with anything else. I once had one that was dark gray with a skull and bones on it.
The most embarrassed I ever was happened on a doe hunt that I had to carry out a zip-lock bag full of urine from my stand as a man stood at the bottom of the stairs waiting for me. AND the most frustrated I have ever been is when I used one of the aforementioned products sold for this exact thing and had to sit for 2.5 hours in a ladder stand in Florida’s 98 degree weather with urine soaking into my snake boots. TOTALLY miserable and horrible experience.
I have to be honest and say that during turkey season or pre-season scouting I just head for the woods with biodegradable toilet paper …LOL!!
I hope this helps. I enjoy your blog.
~Practice often, hunt hard, harvest ethically and may your drag be short. Nancy Jo~
Georgette Wood
March 30th, 2010 at 13:41
Thank you Nancy Jo for your comments! I hope this encourages other women hunters!
Katherine Browne
March 25th, 2010 at 14:03
Georgette, great blog. I always hate having to go to the bathroom in a situation like that. I don’t hunt treestands but waders are always problematic in busy areas. It just sucks that you end up hanging your butt out for everyone to see if there is no decent cover and hunting I always have to get up and find a spot which can spook animals too. Let me know how you like the Go Girl when you do use it. I might have to get one.
Georgette Wood
March 30th, 2010 at 13:44
I totally understand where you are coming from Katherine. This really does take the fun out of it when you do have to go to the bathroom! Nancy Jo has some great advice on this subject too! I’m glad you like my Blog, I try to make it what you really go through in the outdoors!