Would You Shoot Bigfoot?

If they really exists their would have to be a bunch of them , dont ya think over the years someone would of found a body or a skull or somthin.
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This is a good point. How many must there be for the species to survive? Based on my short time in population genetics, humans, the great apes, and some of the related primates have enough DNA in common to suggest that they require approximately the same number of individuals to make a viable population. As I recall the number for humans, it was 500-600 individuals. That means that there needs to be that mean out there in a breeding population. I would find it hard to believe that there are that few spread over the entirety of North America, but maybe so.

So shouldn't a skull or something have been found? Yep. Those arguing for Bigfoots' existence will argue that their bones have been destroyed by other animals and that you don't often find bones out in the woods. Of course, that does not make sense. Bones are readily found in the woods or the wilds.

Strangely, while folks have reported hitting bigfoots with cars and trucks, the bigfoots never die on scene or in the immediate area. Hunters claim to have shot the animal, but they never seem to be able to actually drop one.

Sure, Native Americans have reported them across the country. Most Native Americans also have polytheistic religions and attribute spirits to things that many of the rest of us do not. So does that mean that trees and rocks have spirits as well if we then put the same attribution into the notion that they put into Bigfoot and that some of us accept as evidence of its existence?

Personally, I am a big fan of the Bigfoot debate. I even own a plaster cast of a female Bigfoot print collected by Grover Krantz and signed by him (I purchased when he was selling off his collection just before he died).

I have to agree with Grover Krantz, until we have a body (alive or dead), I am hesitant to believe they are real. People see things all the time in the woods and wilds, Bigfoot, UFOs, space aliens, spook lights (I am near Marfa, Texas right now), etc. Just because you don't know what something is does not mean it is some sort of unproven entity. It doesn't mean it isn't, but it is more likely to be something simply misunderstood than some sort of creature like a Bigfoot.
 
Would I shoot Bigfoot (or Swamp Apes as we call them down here) is a question that pops up alot with the boys I run with. I have thought about it also as I was packing a deer kill out of the woods close to Mt Rainer. You know when you are a Southen boy up in bigfoots stomping grounds by yourself gets a man to thinking. The answer is yes. Here is why. First it would prove if it is real. Answered, solved. It could then be put on the endangered species list. You know, like the panda was that was supposed to be a myth. We would also have a DNA sample so we could clone it one day. As for the "guy in a suit" question- If you do not have anymore greymatter than to run around in the woods ANYWHERE in a ape suit then IMO you are asking to get killed. Really, do we want folks like that around. I really believe that if I was to shoot a man in an ape suit that I would not be put in jail although I may need legal help. FirstFreedom, do you need a case?:) I am not saying that I believe it is real, but its a nice thought.
 
The latest genetic studies show that the human race was down to about 5 breeding females at one point. If we could make it through that sort of near-extinction, just about anything could.

A geneticist with a british accent said so on PBS (Nova no less) so it must be true.:D

I suspect that if sasquach is real there is enough desolate woodland in North America to hold at least a few dozen of them even if they each require a huge territory.

Nice story by the way, PBP.:)
 
I'd drop him in his tracks and give the "he was headed right for me" story.

I hear all the time about people who say they see wild cats and cougars here in Alabama, and others claim there aren't any. I guess the Bigfoot deal is kinda the same way, or the lockness monster. If I saw em I'd definitely be pulling the trigger and dragging back some proof.

Ethically its not the thing to do. It'd probably stink really bad, and the meat would probably be tuff. I'd like to see the look on the processors face though.
 
It's 1:31 AM Eastern Standard Time

So, I woke my wife up with my idiotic laughter at this video:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nVM62idO9MA&mode=related&search=

Thanks, PBP; I really like Jack Link's above all other commercial jerky so it was worth it when my wife came into the spare room and smacked me in the head.

If Bigfoot/Sasquatch were coming at me angry, fast and growling he'd get what anyone would in that time and place; a chest full of .357s. Hunt it down, stalk it, kill it and grill it? No way. If it exists, if it's species has stayed hidden this long, I'm not going to kill it.

Drug dealers, meth makers, kiddie rapers, muggers preying on the elderly, cowardly terrorists killing innocents in the crossfire...these and more I'd shoot with pleasure. Sign me up.
 
Yes

I think if the shot was good I would take it. I assume that I would be hunting a bigfoot and not just happen to see one and shoot it.
Hunting anything challenging is sport. I feel that "sport hunting" is an acceptable use of wildlife resources.
For example: Calling a turkey to within shotgun range can be challenging.
Shooting a turkey that wanders into a field during deer season is not "sporting".
Stalking and shooting a feral bull in thick cover is sporting.
Shooting an angus bull in the pasture is not.
Not a bunch of rules to this thing.
A true sportsman will know before he pulls the trigger if it is "hunting" or shooting.
 
Hunting anything challenging is sport
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I couldn't disagree more. I am afraid I just do not see anything "sporting" in hunting. Hunting is a means of providing food. Anything beyond that is just machismo.

Now if some comes and tells me the story of how they stalked and killed an elk with nothing but their bare hands and the natural items around them or dropped naked from a tree onto the back of a feral pig and chew it's juglar vein with their teeth I will think that was quite a feat. When they sit in a tree stand and take out an animal from a safe distance with a sophisticated weapon I am not at all impressed.
 
The latest genetic studies show that the human race was down to about 5 breeding females at one point. If we could make it through that sort of near-extinction, just about anything could.
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Uh, not exactly. That research shows that they can discern 5 genetic females and that scientists believe there were that few. However, when it comes to evolution, just where those 5 supposedly were is dubious. At what point is the human species a species?
 
Personal I am going to try to bag the Mothman
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That has to be the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard.

You can't kill the Mothman. Noone can...he is unkillable.

Your best bet is to just think good pro-Mothman thoughts and hope he leaves you alone.

I should know. If anyone has seen the specials about him on the sci-fi channel they will have seen pics of the old abandoned TNT factory and mounds which were supposed to be his lair. I used to have to walk past them and then down miles of old dirt fireroads through the TNT area to get back home as a teen. Often in conditions so dark I had to follow the tire rutts in the dirt by feel to stay on the road.

I left him alone and managed to live out all my childhood years in his backyard without getting eaten. All though he did occassionally kill one of our neighbors cattle and chased another neighbor all the way home from the mason fairgrounds then sat on top of her barn for hours after pulling her phone lines while she and her daughter coward in their home. :)
 
You have got to have WV relatives to really know the mothman threats that are used to scare children into submission!

We were always threatened with being left out for the Mothman if we didn't behave.
 
Sure I'd shoot. Why? Like Burt Reynolds once said "for the money, for the glory and for the fun. Mostly for the money.":D

Seriously, if you bagged one it would solve a great enduring mystery. The scientists who would end up studying it may come up with some great medical breakthrough for humans. Who'd have though that a couple plants in the Amazon would be so beneficial to us, right?

As for why no one has ever found bones, that's simple. In Pa. we have bears, bobcats and coyotes. In 25 years of hunting I've never seen bones from any of these creatures. I guess they don't exist.:rolleyes: Occasionally you'll come across bones from deer. Occasionally. There are over a million deer in Pa., figures you'd come across something. Nobody ever claimed there were a million bigfoots.

The biggest problem you would have, at least here in Pa. with our dipschtick game commission, would be defending yourself against some game code violation that they'd dream up. Could you see some bunny cop trying to take a bigfoot away from some lucky guy?:D That would be one very short conversation.
 
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