I did not think of that. I can understand if a hunter mistakes a human for a bigfoot, but i dont see how they can mistake a deer or fur covered bear for a human.
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I did not think of that. I can understand if a hunter mistakes a human for a bigfoot, but i dont see how they can mistake a deer or fur covered bear for a human.
If the bushes move they shoot. If they see a shadow they shoot. If they hear a noise they shoot. Remember psycho Dick Cheney's little hunting accident?
It's not about mistaking one animal for another, it's about shooting first then identifying what they shot. The only way one has a chance of staying alive in the woods during hunting season is to wear bright orange, and that doesn't always work.
It's not about mistaking one animal for another, it's about shooting first then identifying what they shot. The only way one has a chance of staying alive in the woods during hunting season is to wear bright orange, and that doesn't always work.
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So what your saying is that hunters accidently shoot people due to being "trigger happy" rather than mistaken?
Why cant hunters be more patient on what they are looking for and less trigger happy by shooting at anything moving?
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Sorry GT but that's a bunch of crap.
That's like saying most people who don't hunt are tree hugging radicals.
And to be fair I've hugged more than one tree in my day and I am a recreational hunter who keeps, processes and eats all the meat I shoot. And I am not ashamed of it one iota, in fact I enjoy it.
Most are, and those who do, not only lose their hunting permits, but the right to own firearms (criminals are not allowed to own guns legally in the US) but then again, you could have easily looked up that information instead of just being "Trigger Happy" with your keyboard and spouting off without thinking or researching. Hmmmm....perhaps there is a similarity in mindset, seeing your difficulties with identifying wildlife, booze & good judgment....
I can identify real wildlife in nature, but pictures are trickier, since they only show static subjects.
Let me get this straight, you can ID a creature that is moving through cover/vegetation and may not be clearly seen better from a static photograph...the technical term for that is Bravo Sierra. That & you say you are an experienced woodsman with no knowledge of hunter safety procedures or what a hunter would experience when stalking game. You can't keep any of your stories straight can you? (I'm surprised no one called you on your claim in an earlier post in another thread to owning a couple of BF suits, along with the rest of the verbal effluent you have been caught spilling here.) Bit of advice, Mak, straighten up & stop with the kid antics, or your stay here will not be long. And I for one, will not be broken up about it...and yes, I also think your behavior is quite trollish, but am willing to give you a last chance before I toss you in the ignore box...
Again, you go spouting off without knowing anything. I have unted with a 6" damascus Boar Spear, taking down a 275lb boar in the Kahukus, Crossbows are illegal to hunt with unless you are handicapped, and I'm willing to bet my 90lb yew longbow is more effective than any crossbow you could pull...again, you go off shooting your mouth off about "Hick" procedures. I would like to see you have to come out here to the East Maui watershed area where we had to cull several boars last week(they damage endangered native vegetation, some of which are very rare, with less than a handful of varieties in the world, & only in Hawaii) where we coursed them with dogs & knives, yes knives, not guns spears or crossbows...Think before you spout off, Troll...
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Mak, read, read again, then read once more what Ravenwood has said here. He speaks the truth. Let it sink in. Learn.
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Cheney's incident is totally unrelated to someone shooting at a shadow or moving bushes, though. No comparison at all, really. No reason to label Cheney as "psycho" over it, either.
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Anybody living near Old Hartford Castle in Illinois? There perhaps is some field investigation to do:
"This guard had always ridden his bicycle to work. He was riding-in one night to assume his late night shift, traveling along a lonely stretch of Poag Road that runs by Cahokia Creek which winds through the woods and crosses the old castle acreage---when he suddenly found himself face to face with a 9 or 10 foot tall hairy manlike creature standing on the side of the road. This thing let out a blood-curdling howl just as this guy almost ran right into him. I guess it's a miracle that the guard didn't fall off his bicycle! He somehow continued to manage to peddle his vehicle---and a lot faster then. He raced on until he reached the guard gate, and in an extremely agitated state told the man he was relieving all about his encounter. This man, simply not believing his story, laughed at him, telling him he was full of sh**!
As fate would have it, on the next night this man who had made fun of the first guy's fantastic tale of a Bigfoot encouner had his chance to reconsider the wisdom of his ridicule. During his shift a Bigfoot came and stood directly across the road from the guard gate and vented a hideous howl at him. It would have been poetic justice had he actually messed in his pants, considering the ugly thing he had said to the other guard. And for all we know this did happen as he was so shattered by what he witnessed that he quit his job the next day.
Postscript : My friend who found the huge footprints all around the moat area of the castle ruins tried to talk to the guard who had had the encounter on his bicycle, but this man refused to talk to him and, in fact, said he didn't ever want to talk to anybody about it again."
In the Examiner (certainly a yellow newspaper) July 4.
http://www.examiner.com/x-3340-Memp...s-in-the-dark-environs-of-Old-Hartford-Castle
I suspect the case is easy to debunk. But, after all, it would be interesting to know what really happened there. At least the writer claims that someone quit his job, that is easy to verify.
"This guard had always ridden his bicycle to work. He was riding-in one night to assume his late night shift, traveling along a lonely stretch of Poag Road that runs by Cahokia Creek which winds through the woods and crosses the old castle acreage---when he suddenly found himself face to face with a 9 or 10 foot tall hairy manlike creature standing on the side of the road. This thing let out a blood-curdling howl just as this guy almost ran right into him. I guess it's a miracle that the guard didn't fall off his bicycle! He somehow continued to manage to peddle his vehicle---and a lot faster then. He raced on until he reached the guard gate, and in an extremely agitated state told the man he was relieving all about his encounter. This man, simply not believing his story, laughed at him, telling him he was full of sh**!
As fate would have it, on the next night this man who had made fun of the first guy's fantastic tale of a Bigfoot encouner had his chance to reconsider the wisdom of his ridicule. During his shift a Bigfoot came and stood directly across the road from the guard gate and vented a hideous howl at him. It would have been poetic justice had he actually messed in his pants, considering the ugly thing he had said to the other guard. And for all we know this did happen as he was so shattered by what he witnessed that he quit his job the next day.
Postscript : My friend who found the huge footprints all around the moat area of the castle ruins tried to talk to the guard who had had the encounter on his bicycle, but this man refused to talk to him and, in fact, said he didn't ever want to talk to anybody about it again."
In the Examiner (certainly a yellow newspaper) July 4.
http://www.examiner.com/x-3340-Memp...s-in-the-dark-environs-of-Old-Hartford-Castle
I suspect the case is easy to debunk. But, after all, it would be interesting to know what really happened there. At least the writer claims that someone quit his job, that is easy to verify.
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I grew up in alabama, a remote part of it to say the least.
When I was 19 I married a little girl and we got a house near the Warrior River, out in the middle of nowhere.
I was driving home one night down the long and windy road towards the house when suddenly I saw some big and hairy and it was standing up on two legs. and it was looking at me as I drove by. I can't post links yet, but if you go to pinthemap / 15e51b2cf31261d9e you can see I put the exact location where I saw this thing.
Now, I was scared to death! My first thought (as I was hitting the gas to get out of there) was "I can't believe bigfoot is freaking real!".
I told my father-in-law at the time what happened and he said I saw a bear scratching his back on a tree, and that he had seen that two. Now it should be known that bear's in those parts are extremely rare but not unheard of.
Now, I did not believe him and I argued with him forever, I knew that it was NOT a bear! I had seen bigfoot with my own eyes and that was all the proof I ever needed.
6 months later or so, we were outside working on clearing some land when I saw a bear in the distance scratching his back on a tree. I knew at once that I had fooled myself. I never saw bigfoot, I saw this bear (probably the same one, since they are so rare there) and I felt foolish.
So from now on, I need a dead bigfoot in the hands of the authorities before I will even consider believing in bigfoot.
When I was 19 I married a little girl and we got a house near the Warrior River, out in the middle of nowhere.
I was driving home one night down the long and windy road towards the house when suddenly I saw some big and hairy and it was standing up on two legs. and it was looking at me as I drove by. I can't post links yet, but if you go to pinthemap / 15e51b2cf31261d9e you can see I put the exact location where I saw this thing.
Now, I was scared to death! My first thought (as I was hitting the gas to get out of there) was "I can't believe bigfoot is freaking real!".
I told my father-in-law at the time what happened and he said I saw a bear scratching his back on a tree, and that he had seen that two. Now it should be known that bear's in those parts are extremely rare but not unheard of.
Now, I did not believe him and I argued with him forever, I knew that it was NOT a bear! I had seen bigfoot with my own eyes and that was all the proof I ever needed.
6 months later or so, we were outside working on clearing some land when I saw a bear in the distance scratching his back on a tree. I knew at once that I had fooled myself. I never saw bigfoot, I saw this bear (probably the same one, since they are so rare there) and I felt foolish.
So from now on, I need a dead bigfoot in the hands of the authorities before I will even consider believing in bigfoot.
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I've seen one while playing Little Big(foot) Planet:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25856419@N00/2851011026/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25856419@N00/2851011026/
Yes! I had had a very close encounter many years ago to. To think "it" (Bigfoot) could actually fool me.
It stayed very still. I'm sure it was holding it's breath to, as I strolled on by. Down that wooded path, my remote backwoods, my home. I know all the bushes and foliage here... Like the back of my hand.
If you're so inclined to share my woods, I'll see you in there. A creature of feather using a branch as a rest stop, or you slither through my grass, I'll see you in there...
I'm sure this Bigfoot thought his effort to conceal itself was good enough, maybe I just caught him off guard that morning. I guess we can all have our bad days.
Even the elusive lifestyle that Bigfoot has carefully structured over the years, may have a few faltering moments. This Bigfoot could have been from another region I suspect, not being familiar to this new surrounding, and just didn't adapt in a sufficient time or manner... I still think he didn't expect to have the likes of me stumble on by, and it's quick tweaks and adjustments were either too late, or simply malfunctioned. I don't really know to this day. This Bigfoot may feel he had "one" on me that day, and I'm sure I had no Chokecherry bushes.
It stayed very still. I'm sure it was holding it's breath to, as I strolled on by. Down that wooded path, my remote backwoods, my home. I know all the bushes and foliage here... Like the back of my hand.
If you're so inclined to share my woods, I'll see you in there. A creature of feather using a branch as a rest stop, or you slither through my grass, I'll see you in there...
I'm sure this Bigfoot thought his effort to conceal itself was good enough, maybe I just caught him off guard that morning. I guess we can all have our bad days.
Even the elusive lifestyle that Bigfoot has carefully structured over the years, may have a few faltering moments. This Bigfoot could have been from another region I suspect, not being familiar to this new surrounding, and just didn't adapt in a sufficient time or manner... I still think he didn't expect to have the likes of me stumble on by, and it's quick tweaks and adjustments were either too late, or simply malfunctioned. I don't really know to this day. This Bigfoot may feel he had "one" on me that day, and I'm sure I had no Chokecherry bushes.
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