Hi BigBill
I been under the weather with a bad cold and strip throat

so didnt even get to deer rifle hunt here. Soon as I got over mine, the wife comes down with it

, all of the neighbors around and about have it too.
I did get to hunt opening morning, got all hot and sweaty walking to my tower stand, then when the sun started to come up, the cold front hit, and I shivered till noon. Come out of the woods, and never made it back into the woods after that. Good news is I`m over it now, and still have a chance to get a doe, (the last day of Dec, and Jan 1st and 2nd, or doe days here).
One of the Bow hunters had an encounter last Sunday night (12th of Dec) He told me that he had took my advice on a patch of woods to hunt, where I had seen 5 does, when I was filling up the corn feeders. He had stayed till almost dark, It was dark enough, that he couldnt make out his pins sights on a deer at 30 yards, so he started to walking very slowly out to get back to his truck. As he was walking past a patch of new growth trees, there hunched down beside the deer trail was a dark object with hugh shoulders, no neck and a cone shaped head. It scared the you know what out of him. He said it made no sound at all, it just watched him pass by within 10 yards of it. He said the thing that drew his attention to it was that it was so black, blacker then black with long hair. As he was walking by it, he noticed that the head of the creature, followed his movement. The creature never came at him or tried to follow him, it just sat in a hunched over position, and watched him intently. To the point that when the hunter went around a little patch of sumacks, that the creature bent his head around a tree, to keep an eye on him. Will needless to say the hunter (Craig,) was pretty shook up, and told me the story when he came out of the woods. He had never heard of Bigfoot, or at least thought they were myths. Not anymore, in fact he wants to join us in a Bigfoot hunt, which we will have Dec 26, (thats the begining of the first full moon).
Craig called me the same night, after arriving home, he said he couldn`t get the creature out of his mind, and had thought of a few more details, such as the smell, he said he had heard some walking sounds through the dry leaves and had hoped it was a deer coming, but then it stopped and then he smelled a wet dog, skunk, dead animal smell. As he was heading out of the woods, it got stronger, and thats when he saw it.
The experience has had an impact on him, and he did admit, it will be a little concern, thinking about the creature when he goes, or comes out of the woods, during the dark. I assured him that, no one had been harmed yet, but I dont know how much longer they will be peacfull.
They do seem to be peacful, however I think, and its only my conclusion, that they are a live let live type, (I hope), cause I dont smell them, the times that I have seen them, but for a few times. I think the smell is when they know you are there and it is a defensive odor to get you out of the woods, sort of like an old cotton mouth, they can stink real bad when you approach them, you seen how they will swell up and then stink.
That`s all for now, but will be doing some serious Bigfoot hunting now throughout the rest of winter.
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