A comment made by Fjold about having hunted since 1970 and never shot a yeti got me thinking. If you guys saw bigfoot, a yeti, or any other strange hairy ape beast, would you shoot him, or try and take some blurry photos to pass him off as real?

Me, I'd shoot him, although I'd hate to walk up to him and find it was a kid playing a prank.

Well, I do not know how many 7-8 ft kids there are, so I do not think this should be a problem.

Hog Killer

I would not shoot bigfoot.I would make friends with him or at least give/leave him food and cloths,sleeping bags something!Big foots cool!ever see the True story movie gorillas in the mist?I would protect him and not tell anyone where he was..................
didnt tom beringer make a movie about a modern day indian tribe in the mountains-The dog people or something.I wouldnt turn them in either,,,,,I would go live with them and never look back!

The way it works is like this.....you empty your gun into the yeti/7'kid, reload, and do it again. When the investigators get there, they ask "what happened?". You say "ask it!" and point at the yeti. They look at it and say "it's dead!"

You then reply...."well then, ....this is the way it happened!"

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Me, I'd shoot him

I think you'd be wearing an orange jumpsuit with leg shackles shortly thereafter because they'd find a way to prosecute you after the public outcry calling for your head on a stick.

What's more, you would be hated by every rural community in the West. That after the enviros lawsuit to force an emergency ESA listing was ruled on by the 9th Circuit which declared everything critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act. Not to mention the U.N. declaring it all a Heritage Area.

Shoot first, call the magazines and sell the story to the highest bidder. If the tree-huggers get involved, hey the thing attacked me and it was self defense! The only question left is who should do the taxidermy? Full body or shoulder mount?

Thats simple, full body mount.

Hog Killer

there is some wierdo that posts on the Colorado forum of Bowsite.com. He is always posting about there being bigfoot all over Colorado and he is being serious. He told me he guarantees that if I drove the back mountain roads in the mountains west of Colorado Springs after a snow, that I would find bigfoot tracks crossing the road. I told him I would shoot it. Certainly there is a stable population if they have survived for centuries!

And I thought every possible topic had been covered

i may be wrong?but i think if you actually study bigfoot,The indians spoke of him and i think they thought he was a spirt?He only shows himself to certain pepole and he will never be caught only seen......
The indians saw many spirts and had names for them,they were in touch with mother nature,we are not in touch as we once were,we are in touch with concrete and auto exhaust,pavement and indoors living-it isnt the same.if we lived in the woods for years i guess we would see things out there also that we are not exposed to just by hiking a few days a year......i wonder just how many folks have acually seen/report bigfoot that would pass a lie detecter test!it may just be me but i bet there are lots of places man never ventures,especially some of those laural thickets/palmetto thickets that go for miles...I guess if you dont believe in spirts then you dont believe in bigfoot or other unexplained phenomonoms?They took a picture of him and a video and had experts claim he was real what else does someone need besides a dead body?I dont see nobody out there all the time trying to catch him..........In did see a show where they were looking for yeti in himalayands/tibet,and the local guide took the fellows/hunters where he saw yeti and they found some of the yetis hair!!!and the monks had a skull and it was/had dna that had never been recorded!!!Nobody wants to talk about that!

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Originally posted by Sevens:
Me, I'd shoot him, although I'd hate to walk up to him and find it was a kid playing a prank.

That right there violates a basic safety rule...

Be sure of your target.

If you think there is any chance that it may not be what you think it is, why shoot?

For the "glory"? For the "money"?

This thread disappoints me, and just feeds the image of hunters being bloodthirsty killers who will shoot anything that moves.

(Hopefully this whole thread is just a joke that I'm too dense to understand..)

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would you shoot him

No, cause then I would end up in jail for manslaughter when the fake suit was pulled off the PETA asshole trying to get the area off limits for hunting.

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Hopefully this whole thread is just a joke that I'm too dense to understand..)

unwind clock,have a mug of piss,it's St Paddy's
day...people are gonna see all kinds of things today.

Besides,there is no closed season on them.Kill'em all.

If nobody could find eric rudolph and nobody can find ben ladin,how are they gonna find bigfoot?whos really looked for him?

I wonder what the taxidermy bill is for one.

No I wouldn't

No I would not I would not be that drunk in the woods with a gun . Or that drunk anyays.

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Originally posted by Cold Bore:

For the "glory"? For the "money"?

This thread disappoints me, and just feeds the image of hunters being bloodthirsty killers who will shoot anything that moves.

Read Teddy Roosevelt's African Game Trails, that is basically what they did for a few months on end. "Hey, a new critter! Let's shoot it and examine it! Cool! Let's shoot some more and take'm home!".

Times have changed, I'd let him go.

Frans

I use to think that I would kill a Bigfoot, and still would if I felt threatened. This link however, changed my mind about shooting one on sight.

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http://www.bfro.net/gdb/show_FAQ.asp?id=411

I believe the viewpoint presented in this essay is insightful in that it steers people away from the potential flack that Law Enforcement may give you for killing one, and towards a more lucrative economic/commercial gain from video footage.

I might wing him in order to get a DNA sample and slow him down for a better photo op.



Canuck

If i wanted big foot i wouldnt need no stinking gun!I would take him out hand to hand combat and ride thru town with him tied up in the back seat of my cadillac!!!!Matter of fact i would love to squirrel jump big foot!JUST How big a feller is he anyway?Ianit scared of no damn bigfoot,hell iam from the south,we would bbq his big black ass down here and eat him for breakfest!Hell if i cant chew him i bet my hound dog will!probley taste like chicken!

Shoot him? Not bloody likely. If possible, I'd catch him and train him to fetch birds for me in exchange for all entrails and a nice cardboard box to sleep in. Prolly make for a fine watch-sasquatch for the house as well.

I whacked one a few years back. Dident know what to do with it. Just left it there. Allways worried about wasting something like that...............

Cold Bore, didn't mean to upset you buy this. I don't want to promote the "blood thristy" image, but then again, I'm a trophy hunter and that is often frowned upon too. This really was just hypothetical.

I think a dead yeti is the best way to prove he exists . . . or did exist. Happy St. Patty's Day lads.

Read Teddy Roosevelt's African Game Trails, that is basically what they did for a few months on end. "Hey, a new critter! Let's shoot it and examine it! Cool! Let's shoot some more and take'm home!".

Times have changed, I'd let him go.

Frans[/QUOTE]

Teddy Roosevelt may have gone around the world shooting things, but most of it was collected for research, donated to museums, was studied and added to the inventory of world wide species lists. That was how they did research in those days. He was one of the original groundbreakers of the conservation movement. He would not be the type to knowingly shoot any endangered species.

Myself, I wouldn't shoot a sasquatch although they have been succesfully baited with beer.

Hell no I wouldn't shoot bigfoot. I'd get him under contract and then into the NBA or NFL draft!

Only if he was botherin Elvis.......while ridin on a unicorn....talkin to aliens.

Depends.

Male or female?



RSY

Being a 6 foot 6 inch 260 pound hairy man, I am definately going to decline any hunting opportunities in the Pacific Northwest. I might get shot.

I'd be inclined to shoot if I caught him in a compromising position with the wife, otherwise I'd have to see what the thing thinks about whiskey, cigars, and 5 card stud.

I have'nt seen one yet! What would I do if I did, I just don't know.

Yea I would shoot it as know one would believe you when you told them you had seen it.............different story when you have a full mounted trophy to back up your story...........by the way for a Yeti I would use my cz .416 Rigby loaded with woodleigh 410 gr softs

Would I shoot Bigfoot? Absolutely not! Consider this. Some states may already have laws prohibiting this. There was a big flurry of Bigfoot sightings in the mid 1960s in california. There wer a few intrepid hunters that went looking for him. Gool old liberal California passed a law making it illegal to kill a Bigfoot. Seems they felt he might be a human form of life and said killing one would be murder. Essentially, they made it a protected species.
There is a fellow on the Marlin Owners web site (not affiliated with Marlin) that has done a lot of work trying to chase down Bigfoot sightings. At one time, he was eager to shoot one. Now, he's not so sure it's a good idea.
I lived for many years in Northern california and hunted the Northwester corner of the state for most of my teen and adult years until I escaped in 1970 to a more "civilized" way of life, IE, not having to put up with liberal BS.
Some of that country uis so thick that it makes hair on a dog look like open territory. If Bigfoot really is in there, you're gonna play unholy hell trying to find one.
FWIW, there have been sightings even down here in Arizona. I personally know one fellow who swears he saw on up north of Roosevelt lake while on an extended hike. Now that's a pretty wide open area, but I sure ain't gonna call him a liar.
Paul B.

Here is a yarn that involves Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. S-quatch.
Bauman Story
for your reading pleasure

Of course I would shoot a sasquatch, then you will have the biggest bragging rights ever!