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| Subject: | | A Few Insights |
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Karl
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Fri, Jan 16 2009, 10:40pm
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Wonderful blog Ben. I always appreciate an intelligent approach to belief in Bigfoot as opposed to raving posts that look as though they were hit by anti-grammar trucks.
There are many parts of your blog I would like to touch on (including the cover up stuff), but time is against me, and I would like to respond to one or two other posts, so I'll just mention a few things that caught my attention.
First, in the small tangent about hunting, you pointed out that you both needed to confirm what each other saw to assure it was an animal, and not a stump or something else. My outdoors training (though I am not a hunter) taught me that this is mainly to avoid shooting another hunter. Confirmation of a target is necessary because misidentification is common. Your point, however inadvertent it may have been, was a very good one.
Second, your buddie says he saw something "walking", while an instant later you saw it "sitting". While this is entirely possible, I stiill can't help but believe that an instant later you would have seen it being seated, instead of already sitting. This makes me wonder if you were both truely looking at the same thing.
I'm also inclined to question your estimation of weight (without clearly identifying the target) at such a great distance. Still, I have seen other men do so with incredible accuracy, so the question can easily be dismissed.
Finally, as for a bear being able to maintain the posture you describe: |
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| Subject: | | Re: A Few Insights |
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ben
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Sun, Jan 18 2009, 11:11am
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Hi Karl!
I've lived on a ranch for my entire life, and hunted for just as long. Weight estimation comes naturally after a while, but they are ball park figures. The size of the animal is what got me.
I am pretty sure we were looking at the same thing,as it was the only animal on the rock bluff. and of course, Ed did saw it before I did, and it took me a couple of seconds to find what he was talking about.
As for the bear picture....well, maybe it was a bear!:) biggest one I've ever seen.
thanks for the insight. |
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| Subject: | | Re: A Few Insights |
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Rangoon
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Fri, Jan 30 2009, 3:00am
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Where and who taught you to shoot bears at a thousand yards ben?
That's fancy shooting that requires alot of trained skill,and regular practice. Not impossible by any means but something that requires more than the average shooter to do. Sounds like your pretty good.You would have to be to dope the wind and calculate for bullet drop across uneven elevations.
goon-in my expert opinion. |
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| Subject: | | Re: A Few Insights |
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ben
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Sun, Feb 1 2009, 9:42pm
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Agreed. There are a lot of factors that come into play when shooting at somthing that far away,which is why I wont... Unless everyhing is perfect,which rarely happens. Retrieving a wounded bear does not sound fun to me. |
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