Outdoors thread

[Fife]

Nice. Are you allowed to feed deer down in Fife Hollow ?

Not in the hunting area. Those pics are from the cam out on the county road, about 1/2 mile from my primary stand, but within range of my dad's wifi. That's the only cam I have close enough to the grid to give me pics via wifi. I won't know that the cams down where where we hunt show until we actually get back down there on opening weekend. I've left that area alone for the last 2 weeks.

The 70 acres of cut-over timber (deer buffet) are right between that picture scene and where I'll be looking this weekend.

My idea was to show a pic of a badassed Tennessee white-tail. And that boy is one.

Yeah, he's a nice one. Am I the only one that automatically focuses on my aiming point when I see an animal?

No no of course not. Both of the pics I posted had me thinking directly of placing a shot just on the head side of that hog's beer belly. Not the best angle but better than an total ass-tail presentation.

[C-Mag]

Yeah, he's a nice one. Am I the only one that automatically focuses on my aiming point when I see an animal?

No no of course not. Both of the pics I posted had me thinking directly of placing a shot just on the head side of that hog's beer belly. Not the best angle but better than an total ass-tail presentation.[/quote]



So, you gonna track that beast down ?

[Fife]

So, you gonna track that beast down ?

LOL . . . I'm going to post up with some poontang scent around his and/or his brohams' scrapes and see if he comes sniffing around me most likely.

[C-Mag]

So, you gonna track that beast down ?

LOL . . . I'm going to post up with some poontang scent around his and/or his brohams' scrapes and see if he comes sniffing around me most likely.

We don't do all that. We just find em, stalk em or set up an ambush if you can get tuned into their schedule.
Big Muleys are really, really tough. They are super smart, will crawl on their bellys for a hundred yards under brush, sneaky as hell.

[Penner]

The squatch might be culling the bigger ones.

Like this supposedly creature?

[Speaker to Animals]

The squatch might be culling the bigger ones.

Like this supposedly creature?

Pretty sure that's a bear.

Squatch are supposed to be seven feet and taller. If they are real, it's going to be unmistakable like the Patterson film.

Truth be told, just based on historical accounts, what we know of hominid evolution, and ethnographic surveys of North American tribes, I think they were very real and existed at least up until the late 19th century. The accounts given by whites at the time can be found in old newspaper archives and usually go by the description of "wild man", but there are some other common names. Calling them big foot is a very recent thing. Nobody called them by any particular native name until sasquatch took off linguistically in the past thirty years or so.

It doesn't seem reasonable to me that it's merely coincidence that native tribes, who had no contact with one another, described the same creatures. Tribes in the Pacific Northwest have legends about them (even put their image on totem poles) but so do Navajo and even eastern tribes.

If what the natives said were based on even a small thread of truth, however, and if these things still yet live, then I would highly encourage people to NOT seek them out. They are likely quite dangerous.

But.. if you think about it.. the diseases that came with whites probably got to them too, and if their population was already endangered, they might not be around any longer.

[SuburbanFarmer]

The squatch might be culling the bigger ones.

Like this supposedly creature?

Chimpanzee, I believe.

[Penner]

The squatch might be culling the bigger ones.

Like this supposedly creature?

Chimpanzee, I believe.

There are no chimps native to the US East Coast BUT if it is some kind of bigfoot then it's the kind that would walk on all fours (knuckle dragging) which would be something really close to how apes like gorillas walk. Overall, the idea that it's a mangy bear has been proposed but I feel like no one is 100%. Also, that picture was taken up near the Allegheny National Forest in Northwestern PA.

[Penner]

This dude (according to the old Huffo Post article) claims that he has mapped every Bigfoot sighting since 1921 to 2012 and it seems that Florida and the Ohio Valley are pretty popular in reporting them. Now, it seems like this could be the case of people watching movies and claiming that they saw it (and I think that this guy does believe it).

Bigfoot is legendary in the Pacific Northwest, but he has also taken a liking to Florida over the past century.

At least according to a project by Josh Stevens, who mapped out every Bigfoot sighting compiled by the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization from 1921 to 2012. The Pennsylvania State University doctoral candidate admits that the rise in ‘Squatch sightings since the 1970s could have had more to do with the release of Bigfoot B-movies at the time, but he says the distinct regions where sightings occur are interesting.

“Right away, you can see that sightings are not evenly distributed,” Stevens writes on his website. “There are distinct regions where sightings are incredibly common, despite a very sparse population. On the other hand, in some of the most densely populated areas, Sasquatch sightings are exceedingly rare. The terrain and habitat likely play a major role in the distribution of reports.”

He mapped out 3,313 data points showing sightings across the U.S. The Ohio River Valley, central Florida and the West Coast appear to be the big guy’s favorite hangouts.




Of course, Stevens doesn’t know if there’s an ape-like creature traipsing around our wilderness, but he said the fact that Jane Goodall believed in Bigfoot is “at least worth putting on the map.”

Readers of HuffPost Weird News know that Bigfoot sightings are a dime a dozen. One researcher even claims to have proven Bigfoot’s existence through DNA testing, though many researchers claim her data is bogus. In any case, Stevens’ research will only embolden the search, as now Bigfoot hunters know exactly where to look.

(h/t NBC News)

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/ ... 67703.html


Also, here is the website of the man who mapped the sightings:

http://www.joshuastevens.net/visualizat ... nd-canada/

[Speaker to Animals]

My working hypothesis:

Sasquatch are the remnants of a genetically diverse and fragmented hominid species that persisted alongside our own because their evolutionary pressures selected for more elusive genetic behavior. They originally come from somewhere in Central Asia, which is why historical accounts of them exist from Tibet all the way through Siberia.

They somehow managed to cross the land bridge into North America long before the ancestors of the First Nations. But once First Nations came along, I think chances are quite high there was cross-breeding, as horrific as that sounds. A common trait you read about from diverse peoples is stalking women and children, for example. It's probably not a huge amount of crossover, but enough that the ones with slightly higher IQ could better exist alongside humans without us deciding to kill them off.

My honest opinion is that thhe common narrative that out species is some terrible xenocidal group that killed off the other hominids is only partly true. I suspect most hominid species are absolutely malicious bastards. Think of how mean chimps are and imagine them with sapience. We killed the othhers off because they were huge threats to us. Sasquatch were probably extremely dangerous to homo sapiens, but they survived so long because they have this trait that makes them want to stay hidden and elusive.

I strongly suspect diseases like small pox and all the other shit that came out of the agricultural revolution made it into their species and likely decimated them if not extinguished them, however.

Maybe I am wrong and the stories of huge populations of dangerous monsters our government sends kill teams after are true. Not sure. But I kind of suspect if there are any left, there won't be any for much longer. Maybe that's for thge best?