Ethics of shooting a Bigfoot?

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If they are really out there, there's no bag limit, no closed season on 'em in any state I know of, so what the heck? How about baiting 'em with a feeder? Is that unethical? I bet the NW Oregon/Washington state guys would think so. Us Texans, hell, just tell me what he likes to eat and I'll have you one for dinner. :D
 
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I would shoot low first to see if it screamed for help then let it run off to only track it to the den to shoot them all . { and they do taste like chicken }:evil:
 
What I'd do, I'd cut a hole in the ice and sprinkle peas all around it. Then when the bigfoot comes up to take a pea, I'd kick him in the icehole.:neener:



I'm sorry, sometimes I'm such a child.:eek:
 
Would you be guilty of murder? These folks who allegedly shot one - are they guilty of murder?

If you run up on one of the critters in the woods, do you think it's smart enough to understand that a boomstick could hurt it? If so, then it's probably "human" enough that it'd be murder instead of hunting...
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Well, if Bigfoot was really that smart, it would probably call it a firearm and not a 'boomstick.'

Actually, many animals understand firearms...if they have been exposed to them and survived. Certainly, other primates can and have. Hell, dogs can. That however, doesn't make them human and shooting them doesn't make it murder...until you are tried in a PETA court.
 
If they are really out there, there's no bag limit, no closed season on 'em in any state I know of, so what the heck?
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Here in Arkansas the only critters legal to shoot are specifically outlined in DA BOOK

If bigfoot ain't listed in the book as a nuisance or game animal then killing one is against the law.

I'll just about bet money that if you dig around in the Texas regs you'll find a similar rule
 
Maybe, don't know for sure. Hogs are not game animals, rabbits are not controlled. There's lots of exotics, legal year around. Some of 'em get loose from the game ranches and roam the hill country. They get shot. Hell, we can trap hogs, bait hogs, chase hogs with dogs, kill 'em with knives, speers, .22s, whatever. I don't know if they're in da book or not. I know it precludes shooting song birds and such as that and lists starlings, cow birds, and such as pests to be shot on sight. :D I'll let someone else research this one. I'm too lazy. :D
 
I'll one-up you, MC. Our GSPs know the difference between a shotgun and a rifle.

They go crazy over a shotgun, but hardly perk their ears at a rifle.
 
Too much laughter!

This thread has been a hoot to read. Especially about killing zombies "whoever killed him the first time did a crappy job".

Alright, now my turn to chime in. I want to believe in bigfoot. I mean, how cool would that be, a very large, somewhat intelligent and completely undiscovered primate living, quite possibly, nearly in some of our own backyards. The problem is that I have yet to see any real proof or evidence that would support it. Sure, there's DNA that comes back as being from "unknown primate", but why are none labeled "unknown primate, but same as the last sample you sent us"? That would get somewhere.

So, would I shoot one? Nope. If I saw one, it would be one of two things A) a moron in a monkey suit or B) sasquatch. One is an idiot in need of a caretaker, the other is a possibly endangered species. Camera shots, heck yeah! With a firearm, not unless I genuinely felt like it was going to hurt me.
 
would i shoot bigfoot if i knew for sure it wasnt a man in a gorilla suit?
just as fast as i accuratly could hopefully a neck shot to preserve the brain and internal organs for study but if that werent offered id take any sure kill shot offered.
id then drag its big hairy butt home and fold it into my chest freezer and look into the legality of holding an auction involving only united states instutitions to bid on it.
when over id own a bigger nicer house with a couple real gun safes in them rather than a stack on cabinet that i got on sale at kmart. id buy a couple nice guns ive been dreaming of, my daughter would to to any college she gets accepted to and id never spend another day sweating my butt off in a hot shop with no ac bending 1/2" steel transmission lines by hand again.

minimum cal would be 12ga with slug or .35 pump since those are my deer rifles and if its close enough to be sure i would be well within range for either of those. of course i wouldnt try it out birdhunting with #6 shot. id just run like heck for the truck cut off my shorts wipe with my socks and go home.
 
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I was told they taste like dogs, but never having had dog meat myself, I can't say what they taste like. However, a former marine told me just add tobasco sauce and anything will taste great.
 
It -is- called a boomstick.
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Then I guess you call a knife a "pokey thang."

What makes you think Bigfoots don't have, what did you colloquially call them, boomsticks? Surely you don't think all those hunting "accidents" are by actual humans who shoot rifles, shotguns, and pistols, do you?

Boomstick Bigfoot ain't got not aythics 'bout shootin' no hairless apes.
 
Aw, no doubt it's fun to play "Let's pretend," but the whole population dynamics thing of biology sez un-uh. Gotta have enough to continue the population without harmful inbreeding.

Sorta hard to hide those numbers anywhere in the U.S. Too many hunters, hikers, birders, ranchers and farmers. Lots of general aviation flying low and slow.

Fun fantasy, though. :D
 
I've actually shot a bigfoot, it was in western Montana a few years back. They're big, hairy and smell terrible. I feel better now, I've been afraid to disclose my secret for the longest time, I thought people would think I'm nuts, you guys seem like the type to understand and believe. If you'll excuse me it's getting dark and I'm going outside to photograph that damn UFO that's been buzzing my house the last couple of nights.
 
Aww Art, don't you know? Bigfoot (it's plural and singular) are much like the reclusive Minotaur in that they are all male, and they mate with human females. Hence why they're such a well kept secret, no woman will admit to said mating, and women can keep secrets in ways that defy all science.
Unlike the Minotaur, the habitat of Bigfoot is not nearly so limited, as they're smart enough to find their way out of the maze.
 
assuming its him or me i'd have to use no less than a elephant rifle i'll go with the .458 wim mag since my neighbor has one.:D
if I wasn't absolutly sure it wasn't an idiot in a monkey suit I'd fire a warning shot because we have some really dumb people around here.

If I didn't feel any danger I'd be snapping more photos then you could imagine I'd then be selling copies of them to get some nice shiny new guns and then would quickly be calling the history channel so I could get on monsterquest.
 
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