Need more bigfoot advise??

[1911crazy]

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[1911crazy]

Ok some ask what bait to use??  I've had strange visits at night after frying bacon???  Even while eating supper they don't wait long to visit. Maybe we should try a smoke pot with a ham hock??  I was fooling around when frying bacon one night I opened up the roof vent and let the smell go up the ridge of the mountain i'm on. I even held the frying pan near the vent to get more smell out of the trailer too.  This smell must drive them nuts??  Its an attractant for sure.  Maybe a piece of slab bacon held over a fire would do it too?  I'm having the misses save all the bacon grease in a large can to use up north in the springtime, I figure on putting it over a can of "heat" and let the smell go all over the mountain.  I'm sure I'll get company again for sure.  There is nothing like the smell of bacon frying.  What do you think??                          BigBill

[Vance]

Howdy,
Thanks for the welcome,bullet maker. I'm in Colorado, but, am a native
Kansan.The southeast part to be exact.

BigBill, sounds as though you may be on to something with that bacon
grease. Good luck.

[bullet maker]

Ok some ask what bait to use??  I've had strange visits at night after frying bacon???  Even while eating supper they don't wait long to visit. Maybe we should try a smoke pot with a ham hock??  I was fooling around when frying bacon one night I opened up the roof vent and let the smell go up the ridge of the mountain i'm on. I even held the frying pan near the vent to get more smell out of the trailer too.  This smell must drive them nuts??  Its an attractant for sure.  Maybe a piece of slab bacon held over a fire would do it too?  I'm having the misses save all the bacon grease in a large can to use up north in the springtime, I figure on putting it over a can of "heat" and let the smell go all over the mountain.  I'm sure I'll get company again for sure.  There is nothing like the smell of bacon frying.  What do you think??                          BigBill

Hi Bigbill
   I tell you what, if Bigfoot don`t show up, I will. :-D There`s something great about smelling fresh fried bacon, in the outdoors.
   About 10 years ago, during deer season, my brother came out to deer hunt with me. Now he didn`t know about Bigfoot, Oh he did, sort of, from my stories, but he thought I was off my rocker, and I was just imagining things. Well after a long day of hunting and the sun starting to sink in the west, I got the old grill fired up and threw some pork chops with potoes in aluminum foil, and porknbeans with bacon bits in them. Well you can imagine the aroma,filtering through the woods, and down into the hollows. The smoke got thicker and the aroma richer as the meal progressed. :lol:
Well all of a sudden all hell broke loose with a thunderous roar coming from the deep dark woods, now that the sun had gone down. :eek:  Now this roar is not like a usuall roar like a lion or bear, but more of a holler that BigBill and I have heard. Like I have explained in other stories that it sounds just like a holler that Arnold made in that movie (predator). You remeber? He`s standing out on a fallen tree, that`s hanging out over a canyoun, all smeared over with mud and one of them homemade bows, and rolls his head back and holler`s at the top of his voice, to challenge the alien. When I first saw that movie (Alien) and it came to that part of the movie, I got goosebumps, all over me, cause that was the closest  sound that I have ever heard of what Bigfoot sounds like. It was freaky, cause I had flash backs. Anyhow my brother freaked out, as the young generation would say . He looked at me with terified eyes and said ( what the he== was that. I smiled and said, that was my imagination, and that he should go check it out.
   That made a beliver out of him right then. We had a wonderful meal and my brother gulped his down, like I think he wanted to finish it before bigfoot got there. :-D .Anyhow he (bigfoot) hollered a couple of more times, and nothing else happened.
bullet maker

[bullet maker]

Hi everybody
  I meant to say predator, not alien. Keep getting my horror flicks mixed up.
bullet maker

[1911crazy]

Bulletmaker on OLN lastnite they played the roar they recorded and we talk about near Mt. St. Helens about and got a roar back.   They also had film footage that a forest ranger shot it showed an adult with a young'in.  After the rangers first sighting he was ridiculed and harassed so much he quite his job and went out and filmed it. What do you think all this attention about bigfoot right now is all about??  We really haven't heard anything about it since the early 70's? (so much)  Now the travel channel and onl are running shows on bigfoot?  Whats up??               BigBill


My oldest son has heard the roar with me while my youngest son hasn't and is a non believer but has seen something from his dirtbike on the loggin road running away he said it was a large blurr? This summer I'll give both an education(frying bacon).

[bullet maker]

Hi BigBill
   Well, I think there are more people in the woods, now, and the wild area`s are being used alot more, and with the shrinking habitat, there going to see more strange sites. Some of these encounters are unexplained to the average person, that think that the wild animals are only limited to squirrels, deer, beer etc. When they finally see a Bigfoot, their minds don`t compute, what they just saw, until sometimes minutes later, then fear generally sets in. They realize we are not alone. Therefore more sightings, and the scientific community is at a loss, as to what everybody is seeing.
    I`m glad there is an interest growing, cause we been trying to tell them for the last umpteen years now.
bullet maker

[1911crazy]

Bulletmaker/guys this is going to get interesting since there are more mountainlions sighted and with the Canadain wolves interbreeding with the coyotes(making larger ones) and bobcats too and soon some will realize the woods ain't as safe as they think it is?? And now with all this bigfoot stuff on the TV its raising the awareness more.  I put the bigfoot and the mountainlion very close together in the same catagory as being very elusive and hard to find and see.   With all the bass fishing I do in the wee hours of darkness some of the stuff I have seen in nature is just unbelievable.   One morning at first light I seen otters playing with two fawns at the waters edge.  At the same place one evening I heard a cry like a baby with a cold(congested) it turned out to be a bobcat it popped its head out and looked surprised to see us, we were very quiet fishing and became more quiet when we first heard the cry.  Another night we heard the bobcats fighting.   All I can say is nature comes to life when it gets dark while most of us are sleeping.  Also during low light conditions on dark cloudy days they move around too.  Just dogs and cats come up missing right now. The Department of enviromental protection has no clue too they say a blackbear roams 5 square miles recently they kept track of a big bear from Ct. to southern Vermont it went thru Mass. too, it was seen along whole the way this shoots the 5 mile theory to hell??  (bears don't get frequent flyer miles?) My point is if a bear can travel that far why can't bigfoot?  There are reportings in CT. one was seen killing a deer and carrying it off.  Another one was chasing a girl on horseback after she seen its tracks along the waters edge in the mud after realizing what she was looking at it appeared nearby then chased her.  The near future is going to be very interesting to see what happens next.   BigBill

One must be very careful in the woods it isn't so safe anymore no matter were you live.  Its also going to be very interesting to see where the first mountainlion attack will be here in the northeast?  The males go 200lbs. they kill a deer every 3 to 5 days.  And if that makes everyone jumpy here wait till they see a bigfoot?

[DirtyHarry]

BigBill/Bulletmaker
Any chance next time you guy's are cooking bacon you could record the bigfoot roar and perhaps post it? That would be very interesting

[bullet maker]

DirtyHarry
   Yeah, I`ve tried that, and it never happens. Or I should say, never got one yet on tape. When I have heard him, I don`t have the tape recorder with me, or He is so far away that the tape recorder doesn`t pick up the sound over the humm of the machine running.
    bullet maker

[1911crazy]

I have used a sound recorder in the haunted places I go.  I never thought about using it up north??  With no one around me I could run wires and mics to different areas??  You have me thinking?  I have been looking at night vision too??  I wonder if it can hookup to my camcorder??  BigBill

[Dezertyote]

Man, I'm loosing faith in you guy's
I figured by now you'd have one or two hanging on the wall!!!

[bullet maker]

Bullet maker,
So what's the latest news? been on anymore hunts?

Went on a Bigfoot hunt yesterday (Feb 11, 04) The weather here in Okla, was beautiful, sunshine, temperature 41 degrees, with a 5 M.P.H wind out of the south.
  I decided to go get in my tower stand at 15:00 hrs. There was a cold front predicted to be  coming in at night with cold winds out of the North and possible snow and sleet. So I predicted that there would be a feeding frenzy with the wildlife, and maybe get Bigfoot to come in.
  I was useing a Johnny Stewart Game caller, playing the ( rabbit in destress tape). The machine has a remote control device, that can be activated at 100 yards. The machine worked great, and it does work out to 100 yards by remote control. I dont know if it will work further than that, cause that`s all my gun range is, 100 yards, where I checked it out, before I took it to the woods.
    For the first two hours, nothing exciting happened, although I did think I heard a low grunt or rumbling off to the west about 75 yards. Now I might explaine, that the way I run my machine, is I play the tape for about 3 minutes, then turn it off, by way of remote control, and sit silent for about 4 to 5 minutes, and then turn it back on again to repeat the process over and over.
  At about 16:45 hours, a hugh beautiful coyote came in. Now I have never seen as big a coyote as this one. And it was a persimmon color. Just beautiful. He was coming in to the caller, and by the way I had some toy furry bunny rabbits, that I had picked up at a grage sale sitting around the recorder to similate realizem. He stalked in like a cat not running in like I would have thought. Anyhow I took my shot and missed :oops: I dont know what could have happened but I was really  :twisted: if you know what I mean. Anyhow I stayed there in the stand figuring what the Hell, it was then that the monkey sound that I had thought I had heard earlier, sounded off again, only this time about 50 yards out. I waited for another 45 minutes and here comes one of the biggest bobcats, I have ever seen in Okla, must have been a 45 or 50 pounder. That big for Okla. they grow bigger in the northern states. Anyhow he stalked into the recorder also, and sees the fake rabbits and then turns to leave, ( he ain`t interested) saw they were fake.I guess.
I get my shot and  :twisted: missed again. Now this time I`m really P.O.ed
Its dark now and the grunting is still about 50 yards away and I dont know if its bigfoot or what, but with all the shooting that I`ve done, I dont know what else could be hanging around. And since I just missed the trophys of a life time, to be hanging over my fireplace, and fur season closes in a couple of more days, here in Okla, and its darker than Hell now, I go home.
   Today its 12 degress and the temperature, is not going to get anybetter. I dont care cause I`m shooting that rifle (444 Marlin), today and see what s up.
bullet maker

[bullet maker]

Well, it was about 16 degress today, but after that terrible hunt last night ( terrible in that I missed two beautiful predators). I shot the rifle, and sure enough, It was 4 inches high and 4 inches to the left, at 50 yards.
I can only assume, that hauling it around in my 4x4 Kiawasiake mule, that the scope got bumped out of alignment. I corrected it though at the gun range. It shoot dead on at 50 yards, 1 inch group, dead center, and 1 inch low at 100 yards, using 300 gr. round nose bullet, behind 48.9 grs. of accurate 2200 powder.
    Now if I can just get that beautiful coyote and bobcat, to come back. :oops:
bullet maker

[1911crazy]

Well, it was about 16 degress today, but after that terrible hunt last night ( terrible in that I missed two beautiful predators). I shot the rifle, and sure enough, It was 4 inches high and 4 inches to the left, at 50 yards.
I can only assume, that hauling it around in my 4x4 Kiawasiake mule, that the scope got bumped out of alignment. I corrected it though at the gun range. It shoot dead on at 50 yards, 1 inch group, dead center, and 1 inch low at 100 yards, using 300 gr. round nose bullet, behind 48.9 grs. of accurate 2200 powder.
    Now if I can just get that beautiful coyote and bobcat, to come back. :oops:
bullet maker

Bulletmaker on the surplup forum a guy named VAL game me a site that computes bullet performance it gives results on accuracy to distance depending on where the zero is set. I have found out that on some guns a 125yd zero the bullet actually stays 1/2" to 5/8" the whole trip from muzzle to 125yds thats not bad. You can try different zero's to see the best accuracy.        http://www.biggameinfo.com/BalCalc.Aspx

All you do is enter bullet weight, bullet diameter, speed and the zero setting.  Then by changing the zero setting you will see the flattest shooting setting.  If I remember right my 444/240gr was 125yds zero.

BigBill

[bullet maker]

O.K. thanks Bigbill.
bullet maker

[Sundown Holly]

Okay guys, I am new to this forum as a poster but I have been reading it
for a few months. After all these stories about motion detector cameras, recordings, buddy system hunts, and even Mickey's sister as bait, I somehow missed the end of the story. Did you actually get any pictures you could post (excluding Mickey's sister) or are there any other stories you can tell of what has been happing since last December? It really sounds like you guys are on to something and I'd like to hear more.

[MATLOCK12C]

I am glad to see a post on this subject. There is a lot of activity in my area. Yes I do belive in this animal. I have seen it with my own eyes!  :shock:  Until you come face to face with this thing, you have no idea of just what your dealing with !
This thing is completely at home in its enviroment. If you take your five senses and up them about 5 times you might be close to the ability of this animal.
This is what I know about it, from research and my own experence with this creature.

It can see, hear, and smell you way before you do it!
The game cameras are just about useless. It can see the infra red beam, and hear the little hum of the motor and batteries.
To be honest, your chance of seeing this thing are remote. You would think something that big will just stand out in the woods? It won't . Imagine something in a total "Gillie suit". That is how well it blends into the woods around it.  Like any animal it will "freeze" and let you look right over it.  I think people  overlook the things more than they ever know.  
All is not lost though, it can be seen if you really put the effort into it.  Like  Bullet Maker said, the things are very curious. They will come up and check you out. The trouble is the dang thing is so sneaky!  The night vision is a plus though!  
I will say this, if you see one you can count on more close by. They will pull the "ol bait and switch" on you! One will move or distract you while the others move away. Or it will lead you off away from the others.  It is very smart at using its enviroment to its full advantage.
 As too the speed , this thing walks on two legs most of the time. When it wants to cover ground quick, or the brush is thick it will drop to all fours and just bulldoze through the bush. It sort of leaps foreword in this mode and covers distance very fast!  You will not outrun this thing on foot unless it lets you!
It will eat anything, like us its an omnivore. All it needs is a chance to find or catch it.
Thats about all's I know bout "Ole Scratch"

[bullet maker]

Hi Matlock12
   thanks for your story, glad to have another bigfoot hunter aboard .
We are planning another bigfoot hunt this Friday night, 16th of April 2004. We are basically going to do the same thing as last week that I reported on, except we there will be more of us (6) this time and spread out more in tree stands. Anytime you want to come with us, give me a PM, and will be glad to share the camp fire with you.
    There are alot of hunters out there that don`t believe us, cause as you said, they don`t know what to look for. That strange looking hump on a tree, just looks like a strange hump, till you stare at it long enough and it walks away :eek:  :-D  :-D .You know exactly what we go through.
   Enjoyed your input, and look forward for more.
bullet maker