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I only read a few pages of this thread, but it was enough. I should just say that I don't believe bigfoot is real - I know they are real. I saw them in Area X. If someone doesn't like it, tough luck. I simply don't care. That's more of what of a few of you should be doing. Ignore them - don't respond. Why anyone spends their time talking about something they don't believe in, I don't get. I certainly don't spend my very valuable time on a unicorn forum - but then again I like to feel productive at the end of the day.

I believe that the skeptics will become overnight experts, painting themselves as the only individuals to take a restrained, measured approach to the topic.

In closing I will say this, we proponents have failed to provide proof to science that this creature exists. Its not all our fault as DWA points out from a Bindernagel point of view. We are laymen with jobs, children, spouses, house payments and a giant laundry list of reasons why our time in the forests of NA is limited. Science for the most part agrees with those that say there is nothing left to be discovered here. But as I said before, discoveries are being made, very important ones that advance our knowledge about the bushy tree of primatology today. And I do not see this slackening, perhaps if a fossil discovery was found in Siberia or Alaska that would support that perhaps other homonids made the same trek we did? Science might sit up and take notice, or at least that is my hope. I will continue to pack a rifle in my scabbard in the off chance I run into something interesting, after all its the journey that counts. Later.

The big loosers will be the amateur researchers. Traditionally trained scientists will take over the field. This forum will probably go away or change to the point it will no longer exist. I suspect a good chunk of the posters here are more into the whole bigfoot game and will move on to ufos, ghosts, or other paranormal phenomenon. Bill munns kitkakaze and other pgf guys will need to look for a new hobby/gig no one will care about the pgf outside of it being the first video capture. I think skeptics will be shocked and rubbing their heads why they were so wrong but ultimately happy and excited. If i found out santa claus was real i wouldn't be upset it would be a good thing.

I would high five everyone of you and buy the first 3 rounds at the Bluff Creek Bar and Grill..... I would tell you you all have been so right and I can't believe I was so hard headed. Now get busy.......

Classic DWA! If that much foot in mouth doesn't slow down DWA I'm confident skeptics will be fine. Crow - Depending on who you believe about when humans first made it to North America we can say that we are somewhere between 4,930,875 (13,500 years) to 7,305,000 (20,000 years) days and counting without proof of Sasquatch. I'd like to be alive to see it but another 18,262 (50 years) days of waiting isn't much in comparison. Imagine the technology the squatch will learn to evade to exist another 50 years without being classified! In the past hundred years they've learned to evade cameras, cell phones, wildlife censuses and satellites while never losing their close connection to certain humans. Dodging Amazon delivery drones, Mountain Monsters style traps, BFRO raves and increasingly widespread use of security and game cameras will probably pose no problems but what happens if folks like Sasfooty or groups like NAWAC decide to collect evidence like scat rather than rely on storytelling to document their findings like scientists studying other primates have been doing the last century or so? Skeptics won't have anywhere to hide either if that day of reckoning comes! Personally I plan on visiting whichever megawoo psychic dogman-squatch hybrid vs Seal Team Six or equivalent thread is most popular at the time and issuing my most sincere and hearty public congratulations on a job well done without commenting on the obvious inconsistency inherent in obtaining a psychic squatch. I will also have a piece of cake, nothing says celebration better than cake! Seriously, how many here actually think skeptics will be overwhelmed if squatch are classified? Do you envision droves of skeptics leaping from buildings or jumping in front of buses? Most skeptics would be thrilled.

I would assume it was another April Fool's joke and get on with my day. I'll just leave this here http://bigfootforums.com/index.php/topic/50874-wellhmmmm-what-have-we-here/

No one "got the thread closed". This is the same thread, the admins do this at times to threads that get too large.

The rifle used that day was chambered in .25-06 according to Justin. He and the driver have both stated that the creature was about 80 yards away. An experienced shooter (and observer) should have no problem observing the impact of the bullet. I've seen it many times myself in deer, bear, coyotes, and even groundhogs, as well as the "rippling flesh" effect the driver describes. There are many weird things about the story of that day, but to me, the description of the shot itself doesn't seem odd. YMMV.

Kathy I am happy to wait for some evidence of woodapes from area x. In a previous thread you seemed to indicate that funding was the only thing hold back discovery (if we had $250k it would already be game over). What would your team do different?