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Simple question for Bigfoot enthusiasts: Why no unambiguous photos/videos?

Pretty smart putting the rifle scope over the camera lens instead of using the zoom on the camera in that Oklahoma footage. The extra clarity it affords is well worth the money on the scope. It's an interchangeable concept too: You can mount a camera on a rifle instead of using a scope. They do this on fairy hunts.

What is the word for this: the gizmos that do the opposite of what their ostensible intent is? The ostensible intent is to assist in seeing/capturing bigfoot, but their effect is the opposite. The scope interferes in viewing. It's Sabotage. Other examples:

- Roger Patterson's bigfoot capture van with the portable speakers blasting recordings of nonexistent animals. He couldn't afford an 18 wheeler, so his van had to do. Two wheel drive, low clearance van that barely runs, with speakers borrowed from Jerry Merritt.

- Roger Patterson's net gun. The advantage over darts in both distance and effectiveness are too numerous to list. Best deployed in heavy cover. From helicopters.

- Finding Bigfoot's laser perimeter alarm system. It does not surround a bank vault, a salmon run hitting spawning grounds - something the target would be attracted to. The system surrounds itself: A camp of five production staff attendant to the system.

etc. Maybe there already is a word for this. It can be deploying a technical gizmo, and it can be the way you are doing something. Calls for example are something you do with moose, elk or fox & whatnot, but bigfoot calls are done in a setting that makes no sense: in the middle of the night, when cameras would not be able to see them more than ten yards away even if you called them in that close.
 
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rockinkt said:
I think a better question would be: Why did Patterson and Gimlin both leave the site asap and never return to find/or film the creature again even though Patterson raised a good sum of $$$ to supposedly continue his pursuit of Bigfoots...


It has been asked many times by many different people.
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Another example of doing the opposite of what you are saying: head the opposite direction of your most compelling "evidence". That's how you are "hunting" it.
 
Most forest animals will take off running, or attack, if one approaches them so it really is best to stay put.
 
Footer lore says you're wrong.

They abduct, maul and rape people. Oh, and they throw stones and pinecones at people too...
 
Oh but that depends on which camp you are in, the going theory now is that they are gentle giants for the most part. Paulides has a book out about missing hikers that is not about violent bigfoot, but was first promoted on his bigfoot site..
 
Bigfoot baiting practices are another example of sabotage masquerading as hunting.

Baiting for game is permitted in a number of states where bigfoot lives. They had corn cribs in Pennsylvania when I was young, and that brought turkeys and deer. To bait, you put out way more food than they can eat in a day, more like a week's worth or more. So the way you bait in bigfoot instead is to disturb an area by bringing in your camp, and that one night put out a single zagnut bar. A whole 1.75 ounces of food.

If you want to bait bears here, you put out a couple hundred pounds of dog food in a barrel with a slot cut out of the bottom. Then it's an automatic feed system. You have a stand nearby, but you leave the area alone for a while first. Check now and then. When they find it, just keep it stocked. Then occupy the stand during the wee hours when they're moving around. You are allowed to do it in the spring.

Just keeping chickens, geese, pigs, lambs - that brought the predators in here. A sizeable food source available every day.


The average person consumes 4.7 lbs of food per day and weighs 185. An 800 lb bigfoot, proportionately, would consume about 20 lbs of food. It's way more from other estimates I have seen, but you'd be putting out hundreds of pounds in food, just like bears. Then you would monitor it over weeks, stocking it as necessary. Thousands of people across the country are doing similar sorts of thing for various game animals. But despite bigfoot hunters "baiting", it is done in a way that virtually guarantees their quarry would not see it nor even bother with it if they did.
 
I haven't seen a zagnut in years, I wonder why they don't use this scenario in their advertising?
 
Jodie said:
Oh but that depends on which camp you are in, the going theory now is that they are gentle giants for the most part. Paulides has a book out about missing hikers that is not about violent bigfoot, but was first promoted on his bigfoot site..
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You are not wrong on this... Like aliens, bigfoot changes according to the believer's beliefs.

But since the hippie bigfoot would lay down to rest some key pieces of bigfootery lore, such as the Ostman and Ape Canyon (tall) tales...
 
It's futile, I know, but the other aspect of baiting is the use of minerals.

Most animals like salt, just like we do. Farmers and ranchers put out salt blocks for their animals. So do hunters, poachers and photographers. In some places there are natural mineral licks, like the sea shore or a hot springs. Salt is an essential element to health. You have to get it somehow.

Bigfoot appears to be the exception. He does not utilize minerals? Or only the minerals in a zagnut bar. Which constitutes 4% of an adult human daily allowance of sodium, so less than 1% of a bigfoot's proportionate requirement.

Since this method of attracting animals works on things that exist, it cannot be applied to bigfoot.
 
AlaskaBushPilot said:
It's futile, I know, but the other aspect of baiting is the use of minerals.

Most animals like salt, just like we do. Farmers and ranchers put out salt blocks for their animals. So do hunters, poachers and photographers. In some places there are natural mineral licks, like the sea shore or a hot springs. Salt is an essential element to health. You have to get it somehow.

Bigfoot appears to be the exception. He does not utilize minerals? Or only the minerals in a zagnut bar. Which constitutes 4% of an adult human daily allowance of sodium, so less than 1% of a bigfoot's proportionate requirement.

Since this method of attracting animals works on things that exist, it cannot be applied to bigfoot.
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I guess one part of this is pretty revealing. No humans have yet to be pelted with a Zagnut Bar ? Or apparently anything that is man made that I am aware of ?

I am waiting for the picture, yes I know.. fuzzy one.. of a human that was taken by a BF though ! I would think they would want to share pictures of humans with their friends and family members. I know I would ?

Even a Poloroid ?
 
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AlaskaBushPilot said:
It's futile, I know, but the other aspect of baiting is the use of minerals.

Most animals like salt, just like we do. Farmers and ranchers put out salt blocks for their animals. So do hunters, poachers and photographers. In some places there are natural mineral licks, like the sea shore or a hot springs. Salt is an essential element to health. You have to get it somehow.

Bigfoot appears to be the exception. He does not utilize minerals? Or only the minerals in a zagnut bar. Which constitutes 4% of an adult human daily allowance of sodium, so less than 1% of a bigfoot's proportionate requirement.

Since this method of attracting animals works on things that exist, it cannot be applied to bigfoot.
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The Jacobs bigfoot was photographed near a salt block.;)
 
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