Well, I vow to do my part. If I ever see one while hunting, I will do my part to science and put it down. That will end this debate. 
As for legality. Since it isn't believed by science or the government to exist, it isn't an endangered species. It isn't a game animal nor fur bearer. That would put it falling in the non-game animal category if it does exist. In Georgia, there is no closed season on non-game animals that are not protected. So other than the attacks from the left wing animal lovers, I should be ok not to mention, I get all kinds of tv time, my name in the history books, shoot, I would probably get to give it its official scientific name. I would probably get a book deal and maybe even a movie. I would never have to work again. Ahh, I love daydreaming.
ROSEWOOD, I will be the first one to write a check for you defense fund if it goes sideways for you when your truck rolls into town w/ the carcass on the back!
shaggybull said:
"I have a friend that is an avid Bigfoot person she is a member of the BFRO their organization investigates sightings. Most turn out to be hogwash. DNA samples they have found test out as unknown animal." Exactly!
Mike, you're right on this one! Because unless an complete, or almost complete carcass is brought in, a tiny part of it (like a DNA sample)
WILL be called
unknown. It doesn't matter if it's close to a known primate, w/o a control sample ID'ed in the system, it's called
uknown. Now, unknown doesn't mean the sample is dismissed as false, DNA doesn't lie, (though a sample can be contaminated through any number of ways), it just means no control sample is already classified. There's murders & rapists whose DNA has been entered into national system, BUT, because the person has not been caught yet, that DNA is "uknown" (no name).
Now, this is my last post in this thread so, once again, I'm going to try to explain the difference between
knowing and
believing this with a medium most of us ARE framiliar with, that being sex! Remember when your older friend, who had a girlfriend, told you how good sex was? Then another friend and another friend told you it was good? You began to
believe it was good! You had faith, not from something you did or saw, but from others who had already been there & done that. Eventually, you had some first hand experience with a female, then you
knew sex was good! I can't make this any simpler and hope this is being followed..... I saw BF before I had an experience with a woman. So, I had to take it on belief & faith that sex was good. I
know BF is real because I have seen it. I've been with 51 women, so I
know sex is good.
Would it be
too unreasonable to have some faith & belief? You want to see BF: get into the woods! You want to be with a woman: date!
Mike: did you order the books yet? I didn't think so. If you think Matt Moneymaker is such a fraud,
tell him. I'm sure he's heard it before. DeVinchie was called a fraud when he pustulated the earth was not the center of the galaxy (no,
not the Ford Galaxy).
One last thought. I agree: many, many sightings are simply honest mistakes (especially @ night), such as seeing bears, other animals etc. There are people that have dilusional mental illness & ailments, they just see all kinds of things. There are sad & lonely people that make up a story, like that guy who lied about being a combat vet, then got caught. I can see him saying, "Yeah, I saw BF!!" There are people that make up a lie for profit, like that lady who said she had cancer and they collected $$ for her. If she thought selling her, "I saw BF" story, would get her $$, then I could see her making it up. Now, explain to us how thousands of sane, honest, stable people, w/ no axe to grind and no profit motivation, would say we saw something we didn't? Is Matt Moneymaker that
GOOD, did he convince us all to lie or to have dilusions
? If he really is that
GOOD of a grifter and convidence man? If he is, then he needs to move onto something w/ a bigger profit margin then a petty rip-off like a TV show on Animal Planet where he has to hike through swamps, woods and howl in the dead of night!
W/ that I'm out of this thread.
