Bigfoot and Beyond writes “Cliff Barackman and James “Bobo” Fay speak with Liz, a former composite artist who was asked to sketch an unusual “suspect” many years ago! Liz relates the experience of working with the witness, discusses the importance of narratives, and much more!”
Ron S
Good for Liz to find a place to use her talent. Sometimes traumatic things happen and we are guided to something that lifts our spirits back up a bit more and keeps us going in the right direction for the long haul.
From my experiences I believe with several of my own instances that we have direct family and sometimes relatives that we never met reach into our lives and are allowed to lend us a hand.
Just the other day I was looking into my ancestry (as much as I could for free). I then realized the furthest distance I had ever drove by myself was twice as far as any other place (and did so three separate times) and also out of the Country, was (come to find out) the exact same small town where my Great Grandfather (Irish) and Great Grandmother of Native decent were married, had a child, spent their golden years and were buried. I can imagine they got some awkward looks from folks around town at the sight of an Irishman with a full blood Native medicine woman for a wife around 1850… I’m very thankful that true love is blind.
Looking back after this new knowledge I realized this is also the same exact place where I have some of my own best memories with new friends I had met there, and also harvested my largest whitetail buck to date there as well.
For those interested in hunting and don’t mind hearing the honest details of how special this deer and this hunt meant to me, read on: This might sound like a bunch of malarkey but it isn’t.
First of all the body on this animal was like the “Andre The Giant” of deer and I’d never seen anything like it before. After hanging it up its head was well laying on the floor and the rear hooves were roughly 9’ in the air. The locals who saw plenty of big bodied bucks over 220lbs (dressed) said it was the largest bodied deer they had ever seen. They guesstimated its dressed weight to be somewhere around 260lbs.
I was helping a professional taxidermist around that time so I did the mount myself and it turned out great, even though I had to use a large mule deer form to begin with to fit its proportions. It seriously must’ve had a thyroid issue idk.
Impressive set of antlers but dwarfed by the body. It grossed 173” as a mainframe 8pt with 5 extra small points all 2” or less. (Basically a 160” class looking 8). I’m looking at it right now in my “lovely room of death”. I have no desire to shoot one bigger anymore, I’m good. I only hunt for table fare now and enjoy sharing my harvests and processing skills with family and friends… and dog:)
Such great memories I can now tie to an amazing heritage, with family I’ve never met but will never
forget.
There are no coincidences in my opinion.
Charles R
That is a huge deer indeed Ron.