Why the Continued Interest in Bigfoot on This Forum

[GT/CS]

I Googled "GCBRO potty mouth" but didn't get much. What are you trying to say?

 

[kitakaze]

If there were kermode bears presently living across the entire North American continent and hundreds of times a year coming into contact with humans, yet we had neither a type specimen, nor a single unambiguous image, would that not be insane?

If there were orangutans presently living across the entire North American continent and hundreds of times a year coming into contact with humans, yet we had neither a type specimen, nor a single unambiguous image, would that not be insane?

 

[Bitter Monk]

 

[JoeyDonuts]

If you mean groups that hunt Bigfoot with guns then google GCBRO, potty mouth.

Oh.

And how many kills/captures/taggings has that group racked up?

I'll pour myself a nice hot cup of 'I'm Right' while I'm waiting for your answer.

 

[WGBH]

Oh.

And how many kills/captures/taggings has that group racked up?

I'll pour myself a nice hot cup of 'I'm Right' while I'm waiting for your answer.

You would need to contact someone in that group and ask, but I would guess none. You asked for a group that hunts Bigfoot with guns and I answered.

 

[JoeyDonuts]

You would need to contact someone in that group and ask, but I would guess none. You asked for a group that hunts Bigfoot with guns and I answered.

I never questioned the possibility of hunters being amongst your fellows.

I said that if they were out there, they're not very good hunters.

Or trackers.

 

[rockinkt]

I never questioned the possibility of hunters being amongst your fellows.

I said that if they were out there, they're not very good hunters.

Or trackers.

So true.

Even Huntster posted a couple of "track" photos on the BFF that were so obviously hoaxed (and shown to be hoaxed) that it was embarrassing.

 

[LuvGodzilla]

Rock, were those "track" photo's ones that Huntster had taken himself? I'd like to check that out, do you have a link(s)?

 

[Bitter Monk]

I was going to ask the same question. I must have missed that episode.

 

[William Parcher]

I Googled "huntster tracks" and found that he had posted some bear tracks. I'd like to see any BF tracks he may have posted.

 

[LuvGodzilla]

This may be the one on BFF?

Footprint Photo from Alaska, From the Alaska Hunting Forum

Excellent Job of debunking that bear track enhanced to resemble a Bigfoot Track RockinKT!

 

[Óðinn]

So true.

Even Huntster posted a couple of "track" photos on the BFF that were so obviously hoaxed (and shown to be hoaxed) that it was embarrassing.

But Huntster isn't a photo interpreter and he wasn't the one who found the tracks. He just posted the photos for consideration based on the testimony of the hoaxers. He originally thought they were bear tracks. This was no reflection on his hunting abilities.

Besides, what incompetent hunter would take a shot at an unidentified animal or a guy in a suit? Murder charge anyone?

Hunter: "I swear officer, I thought he was a bigfoot!"
Officer: "I'm sure he had it coming...but can I see your bigfoot hunting license please?"

 

[WGBH]

I never questioned the possibility of hunters being amongst your fellows.

I said that if they were out there, they're not very good hunters.

Or trackers.

They are not my "fellows". And yeah it's hard to hunt Bigfoot with a rifle in one hand and a bottle of whisky in the other.

 

[LuvGodzilla]

But Huntster isn't a photo interpreter and he wasn't the one who found the tracks. He just posted the photos for consideration based on the testimony of the hoaxers. He originally thought they were bear tracks. This was no reflection on his hunting abilities.

Besides, what incompetent hunter would take a shot at an unidentified animal or a guy in a suit? Murder charge anyone?

Hunter: "I swear officer, I thought he was a bigfoot!"
Officer: "I'm sure he had it coming...but can I see your bigfoot hunting license please?"

If you look at the link that WP posted it shows Huntster discussing Bear Tracks and offering his own photo's of his Bear Track finds.

Then you compare the post I linked to, he puts up a picture of a bear track fabricated to resemble a Bigfoot Track.

His interpretation of the Bear made into a Bigfoot Track was questioning, even when he was well versed in recognizing Bear Tracks and following them for miles (per his own words). It wasn't until Rockinkt began to pull apart the photo and discussing the fact that "a bear track" existed in that fabricated track that Huntster went, oh yea.

I don't believe anyone has said that Huntster found that fabricated Bigfoot Track, it's clearly stated on that thread that he found it on another forum.

As to hunters taking shots at targets they can't identify fully, happens often enough regardless of real animal or man in a suit. There are plenty of incompetent hunters out there and plenty of stories to go around about them.

Here is a good one for you recently:

Donkey killed after SC hunter mistakes it for deer


That hunter sure made an ass out himself

 

[JoeyDonuts]

They are not my "fellows". And yeah it's hard to hunt Bigfoot with a rifle in one hand and a bottle of whisky in the other.

Jeebus.

Is this par for the course on a typical Bigfoot "research" expedition? Along with Adobo seasoning?

No wonder nothing empirical or scientifically viable has ever turned up.

But man, do they ever have an awful lot of anecdotal and second-hand stories.

I guess that's enough for someone who really wants to believe there's an enormous, smelly, knuckle-dragging proto-human traipsing about the U.S. woodlands evading capture, study, and classification by legitimate zoologists for over a hundred years.

But yet not so clever he evades the watchful gaze of the Bigfoot Believers.

 

[tsig]

I never questioned the possibility of hunters being amongst your fellows.

I said that if they were out there, they're not very good hunters.

Or trackers.

They would be the Elmer Fudd of hunters cause no matter how many times Elmer went hunting and no matter how many encounters he had with Daffy and Bugs he never actually brought anything home.

 

[rockinkt]

But Huntster isn't a photo interpreter and he wasn't the one who found the tracks. He just posted the photos for consideration based on the testimony of the hoaxers. He originally thought they were bear tracks. This was no reflection on his hunting abilities.
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Horse Pucky. Why show such obvious hoaxed tracks on a BF board wherever they come from?
You do not need to be a photo interpreter to see that they were not anything close to real tracks. I'm certainly not a photo interpreter.

 

[LTC8K6]

And yeah it's hard to hunt Bigfoot with a rifle in one hand and a bottle of whisky in the other.

No it isn't.

 

[JoeyDonuts]

They would be the Elmer Fudd of hunters cause no matter how many times Elmer went hunting and no matter how many encounters he had with Daffy and Bugs he never actually brought anything home.

Except for that one time:

 

[The Shrike]

You do not need to be a photo interpreter to see that they were not anything close to real tracks.

I'm not familiar with this Huntster/footprint issue, but how should he (or anyone) tell "real" from hoaxed tracks? Are you holding Huntster to a higher standard than, for example, Dr. Meldrum?