Trevor;
This was emailed to me by a friend a few months ago. I don't know if it is true or not. I tried to find the story on the internet but no luck.
My feelings on it is this. If my family, friends or myself is in danger then blast away. I would have no morality problems with setting the cross hairs on one and squeesing. Then what? Do you think a 280 grain piece of lead will stop one? Maybe it will with correct shot placement.
What happens if you wound one? Will it take out its Anger on a unsuspecting hiker? Will it come after you? Will it rush you? Lets see a 600 pound monkey could cover 150 feet in maybe 3 to 5 seconds?
Several groups have hunted them or have plans for hunting them, The Holleys (T.B.R.I.)in Texas comes to mind. I don't think these boys are slouches in the woods in any way. After reading their stories I think they may have had many chances to shoot one. Why haven't they? Maybe it is safety. Maybe they see them when they are least expecting it and they are not ready? Maybee when they see one they are the prey and the bigfoot is the hunter? Maybe they have one in the freezer? I don't know.
If you plan on shooting one have a plan. Have a safe place that you can quickly exit to if things go wrong.
Have enough gun and the skills to do the job.
Anouther thing to think about is what will you do after you shoot one? If you are planning to get one out of the woods, it may be difficult however. big game animals are killed and removed from deep woods every hunting season so it can be done. Will the animals friends take offense and come after you? I bet the Game and Fish department would seize if they hearr about it.
So my feelings of killing one. Ok, but you better have a good plan!
HUNTERS SHOOT AT BIGFOOT
A deer hunter, Jim Kunkle of Eugene, Oregon, and a friend last year
were out hunting.. The pair were surveying the brush when they
glimpsed what they thought must be a deer. Kunkle pumped three rounds
into the animal and was horrified when, instead of falling dead, the
animal stood up to a height of more than eight feet. It was no deer --
it was more like a gorilla. The creature had no neck and its head
sloped out into broad, powerful shoulders and it was covered with
thick, dirty-grey hair. It ran on two legs up a hillside. The hunters
blasted away at the beast, but it was not fazed, when it reached the
crest of the hill, it turned and stared at the two men, who scrambled
back to their car. United Press International, courtesy of Randall
Mills
Folkore Archives, University of Oregon, Eugene
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