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We have dog schit in the White House, everyone looked at the dog turd and still voted for him.

To quote Andrew Squigman....."I'll see it, when I believe it"

I've been thinking about this since this thread started.

I was getting pissed thinking about the probable government grants that have been paid out to study this.

But now that I think about it, if the someone came to me and said they'd pay me a decent salary per year to hang out in the woods and look for a creature that most likely didn't exist, I'd jump at it. Even knowing people would laugh.

That seems to make sense if you ignore the problems of dealing with the goofermint (or look at 'em through a long telescope with the big end next to your eye).

Just the paperwork alone would keep you indoors, madly scribbling when you weren't answering the 'phone.

While I was in rehab after my stroke (2001), the social worker set-up an interview with the VA. The VA decided to pay me a tiny monthly stipend and paid it for a year or so. Then the VA decided that I shouldn't have gotten it � and would have to pay it back, plus interest and penalties.

So the Treasury Department has been deducting a honking amount from my Social Security, and neither the Treasury Department nor the VA will say a mumblin' word to explain why, how much I still owe, or � .

When the FBI crime lab wanted to buy a copy of my big cartridge book, I refused to sell 'em one.

"I'll give you a copy, but I'm not about to sell you one."

The FBI guy was puzzled � wanted to know why.

"I'm not going to mess with all the paperwork for just one copy of the book."

He laughed. "You must have done business with the government before."

"No. I've worked for the government before."

So I sent 'em a copy, paid the postage, and didn't have to mess with a stack of paperwork or pesky goofermint noses.

pretty sure the whole thing started as a way to shut down logging. Except the hippies forgot the government needed proof.

You guys are ruining my fantasy of being paid to just hang out in the woods. Spoil sports

I'm still holding out hope I run into one some day, maybe a badly injured one. I'd nurse it back to health, and then make it fetch ducks for me for the rest of its life. I'd let it eat the head, guts, feet and feathers of all the ones he brought back. I'm not a savage, after all.

But what if "someone" said you had to use an unknown T/C Encore rifle during the filming segment??

Unless it's in 270, I don't see a problem with it.

Glad you enjoyed my pontificating, JM.

I have no idea if the testing was flawed, and made no comment on that one way or another. But as Dr. Ketchum is an accredited researcher in this field, I actually have confidence that the lab DNA analysis is solid. Whether the samples provided are real is a question that needs to be asked, for reasons I have previously pontificated upon, and which I need not reiterate.

But like I said before, I have no dog in this fight. If they find Bigfoot, too bad for Bigfoot. If they don't, too bad for us.

Time will tell, indeed, Scott.

Apparently I have offended a number of 24HCF members by trying to inject a bit of scientific scepticisminto the discussion, as they seem to equate scepticism with dismissal.

I'm tired of trying to educate people. I've got some hunting to do this weekend, I think I'll go do some research into the theory that .270 bullets just bounce off deer. IME, so far at least, they might... but they sure blow the schitt outta speedgoats, rockchucks, skunks, and coyotes!

I'd be happy enough just knowing for sure whether he's really out there somewhere, free and unmolested.

Ishi turned-out to be a genuine gentleman of the first water, but our world had no niche for him, and he paid for not completely fitting-in.

We need our myths, our legends, our old songs.

As a longbow archer, a bowsinger, I cherish the words of Ishi and those who knew him.
I like to think we would treat him better today.
That an army of bowhunters would see to that.
Those few who did honor and learn from Ishi were bowmen.

But Ishi and his people left sign and were found.

I still say if Bigfoot is out there, good hounds would have found him long ago. 

Ishi and Bigfoot is akin to apples and oranges if even that.



Story of Ishi

If you do get that job, you'll need someone to help you drag your deer out.....ugh, er bipedal homonid food source sample. PM me.

PS: I'll even shoot that 270 Encore if I have too.

FWIW..... that "scat" at the site didn't come from Bigfoot.

Pardon me, I didn't see you lying there. LOL.

The story of Ishi is too important to be buried in a Bigfoot thread

I think we should have an Ishi Forum.

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