Has everyone already seen this?

[snagged in outlet 3]

2 hours ago, Quillback said:

Seattle Sonics had one as a mascot, pretty well trained, it could do dunks off one of those little trampolines during half-time.  Don't know what happened to it after the Sonics moved to OKC and became the Thunder.  

See!!   They leave no trace.  😂

[Dutch]

I figure Nick Collins ate it before they left for OKC.

[jdmidwest]

13 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Bobcats are bone collectors.  On a tract that I used to bowhunt there was a giant rock pile that always had piles of bones (deer, turkey, rabbit, a whole assortment) and bobcat tracks all around it.    Never once saw a bobcat on foot there but it was obvious that they frequented it regularly.     

The biggest deer I have ever had within range came 25 yards from my stand within sight of that rock pile.  It was late, possibly past legal shooting time, and I was so shaken up that I couldn't get steady enough to release the arrow.  I blew it.  Total Freakin' Bullwinkle !   

Speaking of nice deer.....this one stopped by for a visit yesterday 

Is he already polished out or still in velvet?  Pic fuzzy.  Massive rack for a young buck.

[Mitch f]

14 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Bobcats are bone collectors.  On a tract that I used to bowhunt there was a giant rock pile that always had piles of bones (deer, turkey, rabbit, a whole assortment) and bobcat tracks all around it.    Never once saw a bobcat on foot there but it was obvious that they frequented it regularly.     

The biggest deer I have ever had within range came 25 yards from my stand within sight of that rock pile.  It was late, possibly past legal shooting time, and I was so shaken up that I couldn't get steady enough to release the arrow.  I blew it.  Total Freakin' Bullwinkle !   

Speaking of nice deer.....this one stopped by for a visit yesterday 

That’s a very nice buck

[fishinwrench]

4 hours ago, jdmidwest said:

Is he already polished out or still in velvet?  Pic fuzzy.  Massive rack for a young buck.

He's still a bit fuzzy.   

He showed up yesterday too.  Can't get a truly good pic because it's always almost dark out. 

My daughter has named him "Hightower".

[DADAKOTA]

Wow.  Biggest buck I have seen around the lake.

[fishinwrench]

9 hours ago, DADAKOTA said:

Wow.  Biggest buck I have seen around the lake.

I've seen bigger, but not here around my place.    He's only 8pts. but the size of each tine is kinda special.    Appears to be a rather young deer 

[Al Agnew]

On 8/2/2021 at 9:56 AM, snagged in outlet 3 said:

We find bones from dinosaurs millions of years old but not one Sasquatch bone.  Come on.   

Well, let's look at that a little closer...

Dinosaurs lived for about 150 MILLION years.  THAT'S why we find dinosaur fossils.  I wonder, in all the dinosaur fossils that have been found, how many actual individual dinosaurs are represented.  I bet it's no more than a few thousand.  A few thousand individuals leaving fossil remains that we've found so far in 150 million years of living dinosaurs.

How long, theoretically, would a large, bipedal primate have been existing?  A few hundred thousand years?  And another thing...one reason we don't find dinosaur fossils littering the earth is that they were land animals, and it takes a VERY special set of circumstances to preserve a land animal's bones long enough to fossilize.  The remains have to be buried somehow before they decompose and disappear or are eaten by scavengers.  Seems that is usually when a big flood came along and buried the remains in mud.  Not a very usual thing to happen.  Then, the sediment that covered up those remains has to, itself, be covered up by more sediment, for a long, long time, until it turns to stone from heat and pressure.  THEN, there has to be enough erosion of all the overlying rock to expose that layer, with its fossils.  So when you get down to it, the chances of finding dinosaur fossils is almost vanishingly small, and it's only because they were around for that almost unimaginable stretch of time that enough of them got fossilized to make it possible to find some.

Now...another question...how often does somebody wander through the woods and find the bones of, say, a bobcat?  Really common predatory animal, but have you ever found a bobcat skull?  I haven't.  Or how many people out in the West where mountain lions are common stumble across a dead mountain lion?  Although there are plenty of mountain lions, they are apex predators and far less numerous than their prey.  Sasquatch would presumably far less numerous than mountain lions.  And while I don't believe for a second that there are sasquatch roaming the Current River country, there is a lot of VERY remote, wild, rough country out in the Pacific Northwest, country that sees few if any people in a year. 

I'm not saying I believe sasquatch exist.  But I am saying that it isn't quite as far-fetched as most people seem to think.  Intelligent, shy creature living in remote country in small numbers...

[fishinwrench]

Unless Sasquatch's pop out of the ground like mushrooms then it's safe to assume that it takes two to make one.  Nobody ever claims to see a pair, or a family of them, it's always just a single individual.   If they are intelligent enough to keep from getting run over by a semi, then they are also intelligent enough to stay together and work, hunt, travel as a team.

Judging by their alleged size, and their alleged diet, their growth rate would have to be somewhat similar to humans.  Therefore it is highly unlikely that they could reach an age of self-sufficiency before age 10-12.   So mamma/daddy Squatch would have to keep the little $#!tasses quiet, out of trash cans, away from traplines and deer stands, and off of highways for over a decade.   And also to not get caught out in the open when a helicopter, drone, or Google Earth satellite photo could capture an image of one.

That'd be pretty darn hard to do, especially in the Midwest United States.

So, no, I just have to maintain the stance that anyone who claims to have seen one....is mistaken.  And anyone who claims to have had multiple sightings is 100% full of crap, and should NEVER be considered for JURY DUTY, a job in law enforcement, or even given the right to own guns, drive cars, breed, and vote.   Just go ahead and put them on house arrest after their second sighting.....and upon the third sighting just go ahead and put them in a padded cell with a etch-a-sketch and no internet access.

Continued tolerance of that type of stuff is why we can't get anything done properly in this country.  And it's why we have 4-stroke outboards, gas cans with no vent hole, stay-hard pills, a president that can't recite the alphabet, and cars that lock the doors automatically when we shift into Drive. 🙄

[Johnsfolly]

8 hours ago, Al Agnew said:

Now...another question...how often does somebody wander through the woods and find the bones of, say, a bobcat?  Really common predatory animal, but have you ever found a bobcat skull?  I haven't.  Or how many people out in the West where mountain lions are common stumble across a dead mountain lion?  Although there are plenty of mountain lions, they are apex predators and far less numerous than their prey.  Sasquatch would presumably far less numerous than mountain lions. 

I have never found a bobcat skull, but usually find lots of bones for various creatures, raccons, opossum, mice, deer, foxes, etc. in field and woods. I agree that these are very common animals. The point is that some folks do find the bones of those less abundant species. Yet know one has ever found a large ape skull in any area that supposedly have sasquatch like creatures.

I would love to think that there is a large bipedal creature out there that is new to science. So I am not opposed to the possiblity of it's existence. I always go back to the infamous video of the sasquatch walking into the woods. I always wonder why they never went over and filmed the footprints of the "creature" or followed it into the woods.