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I don’t think you can missing to long in that area walk down hill and there is a road at the bottom of almost every valley.
Steve, What if they are here only to observe….. Rules are simple don’t interfere, don’t be seen, don’t leave recognizable evidence.
There should be much more physical evidence than there is. A few hundred yards behind my house there is a fox den with 4 kits in it. These fox have several beaten down trails to and from the den that MaGoo could find. You would think something weighing in north of 500 lbs would have a wagon wheel network of tracks/trails leading to and from a home camp, den, cave or whatever you want to call it. This doesn’t seem to be the case at all. So that would lend to BF being mobile and nomadic kind of no trace camping so to speak. Being mobil is a very bad plan if you don’t want to be seen. One question leads to the next, its frustrating and and makes no sense. There is obviously more to understand about this than we currently realize. We are trying to put a square peg in a round hole.
I don’t know what he filmed but the fact that he used a drone is super cool. I think a drone is a fantastic tool in the right situation. In the future someone is going to get some incredible footage with a drone. Drones are getting better and better all the time, battery life, control, and dependability.
When ever I think about the Smeja story I cringe, why? Why would you do this? How do you look at yourself in the mirror everyday. I remember him making the comment that “They are monsters”. I think the monster was looking through the rifle scope. I hope the whole story is fabricated but I will never know for sure. I saw a TV special that did DNA testing on blood on Smejas boot it tested out to be black bear. This whole story is just screwed up.
George, I agree with everything you said. A 12 gauge is not “settling” at all it is a very capable round.
Another can of worms I wasn’t going to open but I will anyway. Watching a LEO, Swat Team member, or Military fire hand gun when that person has had years and years of training is impressive, disiplined, crisp, clean, sharp accurate movements. They are experts. Watching the average person handle the same hand gun is normally a very different story. The difference is practice, practice and more practice. Levels of competence with a hand gun fall in a wide range, depending on experience. Yep I’m going to make a point, bare with me.
Now give the handgun expert a 454 handgun, lets give the average competent shooter a 9mm. The target is 15 yards with instructions to hit the target 5 times as quickly as you can. Just hit the target don’t worry about bullseye – just hit the paper. Big bores lose every time, why? Sight picture after you pull the trigger on a big bore hand gun what is your sight picture? It’s normally blue sky over your head. While the 9mm, remains on target, they are able to rapidly complete the shot sequence because they never come off target. On a fast moving target you may miss the first round, with a big bore handgun you may not have time for another shot. I personally wouldn’t pack a sidearm that had one round. Why do you think LEO’s don’t carry big bores?
People with slight builds may come off target faster than large frame people, everyone is different. Some guys can handle a 10mm like others might shoot a 9mm. Find what works for you, what you can shoot well and remain on target while firing. That is the sidearm you want. Bigger is not always better.
I didn’t even touch on flinching issues folks can acquire after repeated firing of big bores handguns.
Couple of things about penetration on a bear skull. I don’t know where all these stories about bullets not penetrating bear skulls started but it’s simply not true. In my line of work I have handled hundreds of bear skulls black bear skulls are not heavily built, and will not stop modern large caliber pistol round. I have never seen a skull that defected a bullet either, I just don’t buy into the story at all. Brown/Grizzly bears are built heavier than a Black Bear but again not heavy enough to stop a modern large caliber handgun round. In the last few years I have done some testing on handguns and skulls 44 mag, 45ACP +P Buffalo Bore, sorry didn’t have 10mm but no doubt results would have been better than the 45ACP +p. I did not test on bears but jumped to something with a much, much heavier skull plate the Alaska Yukon Bull Moose. Test were done on dead bulls that had been harvested by hunters, in other words recently shot. All rounds mentioned penetrated the moose skull in the front at the thickest part of the skull into the brain cavity. Shots were taken at close range 10-15′ about maximum range.
Shot placement is everything, at some point in the past someone made a bad shot on a bear and said the skull deflected the bullet and this story was started. It’s simply not true.
Plausible Deniability, If you can convince the public that you don’t know about it, you don’t have to act on it, your not accountable. Why try convince the public you don’t know is the question? The resources and time spent cloaking this is topic is almost unbelievable. I think the answer is in Knobbys response, to what level I don’t know.
There are economic reasons that are plain to see, but I don’t think that is the answer, there is something more to it. Government i.e. the Feds love to lock up land, there is huge push of late to restrict use of Federal Lands period. I would think the Feds would love to use the existence of a unknown Hominid as a tool to further limit access to Federal Lands. This is not the approach they are taking at all, and the reason I say there is more to it. The Federal Government owns 640 million acres nation wide, mind boggling number. In my life time I have seen HUGE tracts of land locked up in my home state, currently my state is 68% Federal Lands. What do I mean by locked up, I mean just that access is basically denied, through insane rules that are almost impossible to comply with. On Federal Lands the Feds manage fish and wildlife many times their approach to management is very, very hard to understand. It leaves State Biologist scratching their heads. So I think if the Federal Government could use BF as another tool to corral the people they would.
Christian, easy one to answer. If we find BF and put them all on Social Security and Medicare it will break the bank. Not to mention flooding the prisons with BF that dodged paying taxes. Ok, I’m done I couldn’t resist.
I would like to hear your answer though. I think I have heard most of the theories but none of them really were home runs in my book, so as I said would really like to hear yours.
