Of all the semi mythical beasts

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Which do you believe the most in, and would spend time and money looking for? Saskquatch? Yeti? Nessie? Ogopogo? Congolese Ogopogo? Chuba Cabra?
Let's hear the theories and capture plans. Shoot, live capture, whatever.............
The ultimate hunting adventure.............
 
No contest. I would shoot a 'squatch in a heartbeat. This is assuming that I can be sure that it's not just some drunk in an ape suit, or a guy with a shaving disability. But if it is different enough from a human that the distinction is clear, then he gets a bullet. Not only would I then get to enjoy the death threats and insults from every bunnyhugger on the planet, but it would lay to rest one of the longest-standing debates in history. Before any finger-wagging begins, let's be clear: the only way to satisfy the terminally skeptical scientific community is with an actual specimen. No amount of photos, videos, audio clips, hair clippings or stool samples will suffice. You need that 9-foot hairy corpse to shut them up once and for all.:nest:

Of course, I'll need a few recipes...:popCorn:
 
I would not spend a nickel looking for any of them, but I believe Ogopogo exists (existed?). A person who I have known for nearly 25 years that I would trust with my life, my money, and the care of my loved ones has been within feet of Ogopogo when it surfaced next to the boat during a rest break when on a water-skiing jaunt circa mid - 1980s. The head did not surface but a length of the body did. Several other people were present at the time as well.
 
I'd say that Sas is probably the one I'd go for. He'd probably turn out to be some lonely ape.

Or a dire wolf. I'm pretty sure those are real.

Part of the problem is that many such things existed at one point or another, but have been killed off or driven to remote and inhospitable areas. Or they just eventually died off from other means. Like the Homo floresiensis. Then it becomes difficult to prove that they are/were real if they're all dead or there's only a small handful left.
 
I have to say the only one I think possibly exists is the Sasquatch simply because of Geography. There is so much uninhabited area in the Rockies that I am sure there is even wildlife we know of such as Elk, Mountain Goats etc. that never see a human in it's lifetime. If by some chance I ever came across a Sasquatch and I am armed I have to admit I would be afraid to pull the trigger for fear it is a human in a suit playing a hoax. Years ago if you were close enough, with the technology of the day I am sure you could tell a man in a suit form an ape like creature, with todays technology it would be impossible to tell, even at just a few feet. Look at the suits from today's version of the "planet of the apes" movie!! I would love to prove it exists if I were in a position to do so but damned I don't want to take a chance on killing someone. I just hope if it does exist and I get the chance to prove it that my .348 will be enough medicine for the job because I don't want to just wound it and piss it off and have it beat me up for my beef jerky!:p

Now I also have to add that I do believe at one time the Loch Ness Monster existed but that it has died without ever having been found. I know, I am strange.....LOL!!:redface:
 
Sasquatch of course! I've come close a few times too! I'm pretty sure I've have a few encounters with a sub-species of Sasquatch. These ones were also hairy, had the same level of intelligence, and used crude primitive tools rigged together. This sub-species was always encountered in hunting season and wore lots of orange and was heavily armed, so I kept my distance and just observed.
 
The Ogopogo has always fascinated me the first time I saw the replica on Kelownas beach years ago.
We made many trips to Penticton in the past to visit the outlaws and when the kid's were still in
car seats, I would tell them the story.
As we drive past, I would tell them to look for big waves or ripples.
It could very well be the legendary Ogopogo.
Do I believe it exists?
Maybe...........
 
the spank said:
I have to say the only one I think possibly exists is the Sasquatch simply because of Geography. There is so much uninhabited area in the Rockies that I am sure there is even wildlife we know of such as Elk, Mountain Goats etc. that never see a human in it's lifetime.

I can't agree with the above. The entire northern BC boondocks is leased by game outfitters. There is not one area where the game is unknown to them.
For a hundred years, from the 1850s to the end of the 1950s, the entire wilderness areas of all of BC was laced with prospectors. In the 1950s more than one of the old time trappers and prospectors who still lived in the northern bush, told me that every stream in BC had been prospected for placer gold.
History pretty well proves this fact, when it is considered that no new gold placer strikes, or placer gold deposits of any significance, have been discovered in BC since the 1930s. The last major placer gold discovery in BC was made in the mid 1930s on McClair Creek, one of the most isolated areas in all of northern BC.
No, very little remains unknown in our "wilderness" areas.
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Of all the Mythical Beasts I should like to capture, the one so elusive, never seen in the wild, so rare to almost not qualify as a Mythical Beat ( all myths being based in fact at some point) is the Rational, Logical Anti Gun Advocate, I have seen so many of the Rabid, unthinking, irrational species, I am pretty sure that none other exist. Oh but to see one , ably crafting a logical argument, based upon real fact, logically setting aside the positions of the Pro Freedom advocates, standing proud wreathed in the mane and crest of lucid thought! What a sight! Alas, I'm certain that no such beast exists, in myth or in legend, not even in fantasy.

Yet one does have concern for the more common species, if not for the fact that they are born from raw emotion and feed on tragedy, Spawning like toads in the muddy waters of hyperbolic rhetoric, they too would be on the decline, I have been told that if you can get one of these beasts to look you in they eye, and to stop screeching for just a few moments, if they can be made to examine proof, and facts they will in fact disappear in a puff of logic.
 
the ogopogo would be out b/c of the long body and the small dinosaur brain- ever try to kill an alliogator?-there's a soft spot just behind the eyes and anywhere else doesn't count- all reptiles are like that
 
H4831 said:
I can't agree with the above. The entire northern BC boondocks is leased by game outfitters. There is not one area where the game is unknown to them.
For a hundred years, from the 1850s to the end of the 1950s, the entire wilderness areas of all of BC was laced with prospectors. In the 1950s more than one of the old time trappers and prospectors who still lived in the northern bush, told me that every stream in BC had been prospected for placer gold.
History pretty well proves this fact, when it is considered that no new gold placer strikes, or placer gold deposits of any significance, have been discovered in BC since the 1930s. The last major placer gold discovery in BC was made in the mid 1930s on McClair Creek, one of the most isolated areas in all of northern BC.
No, very little remains unknown in our "wilderness" areas.
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Of course you can't! I have seen your posts on here for years and you always disagree with anything posted. I am no Rocky Mountains or BC expert by any means but having flown over those mountains on a few occasions I find it hard to imagine looking down into them that every spot has been walked into or discovered but then you're the expert so I will stand corrected. Good of you to miss the fun intended in the OP's thread. Since you are the expert why don't you tell us all if any of these beasts do exist in BC and if so where they live. I am sure you know and are just keeping it to yourself so that nobody else will ever know but you........that way you can correct them too!
 
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