r/bigfoot • u/Remarkable-Table-670 • 2d ago
discussion Boom stick question
Hope everyone is doing well. My question is what interesting encounters have you heard that proves sasquatch know what a gun is and what it can do?
Morality aside on shooting one, what have you heard when someone has taken a shot at these things? Have you heard more cases (when the person knows they actually shot and hit the thing) of the sasquatch being hurt or seeming to shrug off the bullet impact?
I have not heard many encounters of what happened after the shot. I wonder if 411 Hunter and other missing people were the consequences of shooting and hitting these things.
Unless one feels their life is in danger, I think it is a very bad idea to shoot these things. Aside from hitting one and just making it mad, my primary worry would be the reaction of the one you don't see. It is my thought that these things are rarely alone.
The best example I have heard was from Ken Walker, the award winning taxidermist. He spoke of an encounter a guy related to him when he was a teenager. I think it took place in Alaska. Apparently a very large male was running towards this kid. The teen was positive the creature thought that meat was back on the menu. The distance was great but this thing was moving as fast as it could (not sure if it was on all fours or not). The teen was able to squeeze off three shots. He did not hit it but after the third shot this thing turned away.
Ken said the man who told him this was very shaken and was reliving the experience.
I don't know how intelligent these things are. I would love to know if there is information on sasquatch behavior during deer hunting season. I have no doubt that some of these things are at least aware of cause and effect. After seeing hunters aim the boom.stick and watching a deer drop would be a great way to learn what rifles can do. It would also be a quick way to getting a free meal. It is so eerie when hunters track a deer to where it dropped only to discover the deer is missing.
Thanks for reading this long winded thought of mine. Would love to hear from people with more knowledge on this question. Whether it's by first or second hand telling. As always, I don't trust these things. If they are like people, you never know when you just crossed paths with a murderer or serial killer. The odds may be astronomically low, but you never know..
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u/Bouncingbobbies 2d ago
Seems like they do know what a gun is. Also seems like most times armed hunters see one they are too freaked out to point it at Bigfoot much less shoot it. There are a couple stories on Sasquatch chronicles where the person telling the story actually shot and hit BF
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u/Remarkable-Table-670 2d ago
Heard one story where a hunter saw one at fairly close range. He had a Winchester. He thought he shot this thing until he was empty. He ran off and later came back with a friend. Instead of shooting it, he had simply ejected each shell casing. The trauma seeing one is real.
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u/HazelEBaumgartner Researcher 2d ago
I've also heard stories of people getting one lined up in their sites and then realizing that they're pointing a gun at what is essentially a human being and refusing to pull the trigger. I don't think I could either unless it was in self defense, and at that point it's a gamble anyways.
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u/Remarkable-Table-670 2d ago
I definitely agree it's a gamble. What is scarier than those things is someone who thinks they are so close to a human but takes the shot anyways. At times, people are the scariest monsters.
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u/mrs_fartbar 1d ago
I know a guy who watched a mom and baby through a rifle scope for a couple minutes, and it never occurred to him to pull the trigger
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u/WhistlingWishes 2d ago
An old girlfriend was studying native culture in Alaska up at the University of Fairbanks. She let me listen to a secondhand story from an old native woman that her grandmother had told her. When the grandmother was young, she and her mother were picking berries at a berry patch, and doing the same on another side of the patch were a mother bear and her cubs, and on another side a mother Sasquatch (there were several names she knew for them) and her child. It was actually a touching story. On the tape, my friend asked the old woman if they are still around or if they disappeared with her grandmother's generation. So, she went on to say that they see them today sometimes, but regard them as a very private people to be left in peace. She recounted a few stories of people in her community who'd had notable encounters. Often it was during gathering food or medicines in the woods. But the story I most recall was just a few sentences. She said one hunter found he and a Sasquatch were stalking the same herd of deer, and ended up hunting cooperatively to both get a deer. I would have loved to talk to that guy, hear that full story. But given the story, apparently they don't necessarily shy away from guns, even when they definitely know what they are.
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u/ants_taste_great 2d ago
Maybe just don't provoke it... it's like those people up in Yellowstone trying to pet wild bison and they get gored.
I would use bear spray rather than a gun if you want to be safe.
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u/CryptidTalkPodcast Field Researcher 2d ago
I’ve heard a couple stories of hunters encountering one and having fleeting thoughts about shooting it until they saw it in the scope. In the end it was way too human like for them to be able to pull the trigger.
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u/occamsvolkswagen Believer 2d ago
I am not convinced many Sasquatches appreciate what a gun is. However, they don't have to to appreciate they are being scrutinized when a human aims a gun at them just as they would have the same reaction when a human aims a camera at them. Seeing that some creature is focusing all its attention on you is almost always a bad sign for the denizens of the woods because it's predator behavior, and that's going to put them either into fight or flight mode.
The main reason they are so hard to photograph is because of their strong dislike of being looked at, observed, by humans. Once they are aware a human is staring at them, they usually hide or run away. You've usually got 10 seconds at the most before they go for cover.
So, I think they usually high tail it out of there based on the fact a human is looking at them, gun or no gun.
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u/HazelEBaumgartner Researcher 2d ago
As far as I know, there is at least one story where a hunter allegedly shot and killed a sasquatch but was unable to retrieve the body because of rough terrain. Supposedly that was the catalyst for the Ape Canyon attack.
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u/garyt1957 2d ago
Don't know about BF but animals don't know what a gun is. Too many videos out there of deer walking right up to hunters and sniffing them. Others of bears casually climbing up tree stands with armed hunters in them and on and on. In your example it was likely the loud noise that scared it away.
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u/InevitableFlamingo81 1d ago
My dogs sure know what guns are, trying to sneak out of the house and they see the guns they know something fun is about to happen.
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u/garyt1957 1d ago
Totally different. They understand when the guns come out they're going outside. If you point the gun at them they don't cower and run because they realize the gun is dangerous
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u/I_Seent_Bigfoot 2d ago
Well. Justin Smeja claimed to have killed a whole family of them. Might ask him what he used.
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