Would You Shoot Bigfoot?

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oldbillthundercheif

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I figure there are many northwestern woodsmen on this forum, so here's the question:

If you were to run into a mythical beast (sasquach) at close range in the forest, would you shoot it?

There seem to be many possible justifications for the act. Bagging a specimen could be a boon for science... large apes are dangerous in close-range random encounters so maybe self-defense... trophy hunting, possibly.:D

I know this is a funny question, but humor me. What would you do?
 
Nope, not a chance. If he left me alone I would let him alone.

I used to go on bigfoot hunts with an archeoligical group from college.

I actually have a gun related bigfoot story but that is for another thread.
 
If you didnt youd be just another nut bag that claims to have seen big foot or Elvis. (no offence)
So I guess YES as long as Im 1000% sure Its not some jack a$$ in a costume.
I believe Id come across a guy dressed like a sasquach way befor I would come across a real sasquach.
Is this any better than a zombi thread??
What would be the best round for a sasquach :rolleyes:
 
Tell the gun-related bigfoot story! It only took you three minutes to find this thread, Playboy, I must have struck a nerve.:)

Come on. You have to tell the story. I have no feelings one way or another about the existance of mythical beasts so you won't get any guff from me.
 
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Id prob hold off, theres some pretty hairy fellas running round in the bush, hard to know if its Bigfoot or one of these Hirsute Hunters...
 
Putting the fact that two guys ADMITTED to the bigfoot thing beoing a hoax aside, I probably wouldn't. Then again since for bigfoot to be around still it would seem that there would be more of them to procreat and preserve the species, meaning that i might meet several of them at once, so if I was attacked I would start shooting.
 
Grover Krantz (deceased) who founded the bigfoot museum was a physical anthropologist at Washington State University who studied the ellusive creature's evidence for decades. He offended cryptozoologists by suggesting that science would not accept the presence of the mythical creature without an actual body and proposed one be taken. The notion of killing an obviously low population animal is what was so offensive as many of the taxa studied by cryptozoologists are on the verge of going extinct.

large apes are dangerous in close-range random encounters so maybe self defense
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The would be the complete for killing other humans as well. Only an idiot armed with a gun and being attacked by a dangerous animal would not use the gun to defend him/herself (assuming no risk to other people.

The reason why animals such as bears or great apes are dangerous at close-range are because humans are naive enough to be in their environments and not playing by the proper rules.
 
Yup, I would.

While I was in the Marines and stationed in Washington State, a buddy of mine and I used to read everything in the base library about Big Foot. We would then go hunting them on libo. Never seen anything that even suggested they existed. But if one showed its face we would have dropped it.
 
With What?

What do you think would make a good "Bigfoot" cartridge? What would be the minimum weapon you would like to have on you in a worse case secnario?
 
I'd shoot him (her?) as many times as I could... with my camera!

I've often thought that bigfoot MUST be female because it vanishes between the trees and is impossible to find just like my wife vanishes between the clothing racks at even the smallest store and I can never find her :D
 
What do you think would make a good "Bigfoot" cartridge? What would be the minimum weapon you would like to have on you in a worse case secnario?
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Minimum would be a .375 H&H but I would rather have a .50 bmg. Hey, do you think a .45 acp would produce a 1 shot stop if the stinker were attacking?
 
Yes, so I could end the debate on wether its real or not. If not people would just think I was crazy and seeing things without proof. A photo could be faked so I wouldn't rely on that as hard evidence. Plus if bigfoot is real, it may have lived this long by killing all that may have ran into it, so I would shoot it before it got me and remained a secret!
 
Like others have said, sure I'd shoot it--with my camera.

But I think the likelihood of shooting a bigfoot with even a camera is equal to photographing a unicorn.
 
Bah, photographing Unicorns is easy, they're all over the darn place! It's just that their horn never shows up in the photos so everyone thinks you are just photographing horses :D
 
Id drop bigfoot. Then, I'd go drive around town with him in the back of my truck, then I'd go to the TV staition and show him off. Then I'd hit the daytime talk show circuits, and talk about shooting him. I would use my earnings to get him stuffed, and I'd put a suit on him and make him hold my beer and my pool cue.
 
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