If I had a camera; I would shoot it.
If I had a gun; I'd let it walk although I've heard they do taste like chicken.......

Let him walk, or play some kind of prank on him like those Jerky commercials.

That moron might be me stalking a deer in a ghillie suit, so please don't shoot. I don't think I'd be sitting there just watching you, though.

shoot

I agree with the letting him go.
If I had a camera or a cell phone, anything to get some proof, then I would try that, but otherwise I would let him go.

camera-shoot
gun-depends, good other hunting? what kind of gun? How far? What else you got? How you feeling at the time? It all depends.

Judgement call, if I was absolutely 100% sure it was really him, I would knee-cap him so he couldn't run away, crude and insensative, yes but none the less effevtive. why?? because I have a cheap phone, w/o camera, and my wife doesn't trust me to take either of our cameras hunting LOL. besides if it was some joker in a costume, he's tresspassing, and "Tresspassers will be shot, Survivors wil be shot again."

I think they are always there ... merely watching ... we just don't notice them. Where do you think the Navy Seals got the idea for their magazine ad?

Uh, hmmm, I would ask him, "Are they making a Harry and the Hendersons 2?" I would definitely have a camera and shoot a couple of pics. Then throw some Jack's Links Jerky at him, and run! AHHHH!

Bigfoot is "easy money" at cards Clay.

I'd make sure my rifle had a round in the chamber and/or that my Beretta Model 92 did, but then I'd get my cell phone out and slowly and peaceably approach the creature--wondering all the while if it was someone in a suit--and leave an opened MRE for it to eat while I (hopefully) got pictures of it. But shoot it? No way, not unless it was clearly about to make me its next Happy Meal.

Naturally, if the "creature" took a big bite of an MRE portion and instantly grimaced, choked and spit, I'd know there was a human in the suit.

TWD

Kingfisher, yes. i've read, here i think, that if you shot a 'yeti' you should drag him into your house, claiming he broke in. Be sure to cover your tracks.

Offer him a berr & shoot the shit!

i would give him a high five then take a picture of me and him together then walk away and not tell anyone.

just give him the jerky get a picture and walk away and not tell anyone

I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to function at the sight of one, that and what a really pissed off 8 foot tall 800 pound primate could do to you if you just wounded it would make for a kind of death I really would like to avoid. shooting with a camera-Oh yeah! Big bucks!

man i hope bigfoot exists just to to show the "educated" that there is still wonder and things undiscovered in the world. and yes i would shoot it, i heard they taste like chicken.

I keep my camera as handy as my rifle when hunting, and shoot way more game with it. So yes I would shoot it with my 12MP cannon, but not with the .300Win. Your more likely to kill an idiot in a suit that a Sasquatch, and I would figure to leave Cryptozoology to the experts and crackpots.

Vote bigfoot for your local mayor!

If you're in the U.P. for god's sake don't shoot, it could be my uncle Tommy. He's been known to go shirtless from time to time and is one hairy man beast. He wouldn't hurt a fly, but it's still probably advisable to avoid eye contact.

Hey lesta, you must not get out in the really big woods much. I know a place in da U.P. change yur mind eh!

Ya with a freakin 12 gauge what do you think? GOSH

Definitely not.

But, but, but......what if it was a female?
How could you tell?

Let it go

I might if I could find a decent recipe. What serves well alongside filet of bipedal nonhuman hominine?

Mike Diehl, Oh wait, I think somewhere I have a faded copy of my Grandmother's recipe for Sasquatch and Succotash.... Somewhere, I'll look.

Don't kill him just shoot him in the legs or something

I wouldn't shoot him - I might try to rope him or something fun like that...

I wouldn't shoot. All good hunters know you never shoot unless you can clearly see and identify your target. Since everyone knows that Big Foot is blurry, you can't take the shot. By the way, I can't imagine anything more scary than an 8' tall blurry monster...

It would seem a shame now that he's gotten used to me feeding him all winter.

i would if i was in dangered or if he was comeing at me

No. Mostly because the Game Commission would probably put me in jail, confiscate the carcass, and then sell it to the highest bidder. My luck runs that way. Besides that, I'd put the people at "Monster Quest" out of work.

Shoot him, but only if he has a PETA or Obama '08 T-shirt on.

NO!!! IT IS ONE OF A KIND. HE,SHE, THEM ARE AN ENDANGER WHAT EVERY IT IS. ONLY WAY I WOULD SHOOT IT ,WOULD BE IF IT PUT ME IN DANGER OR ANY BODY ELSE

damn right i would. I'd poach that bastard w/o thinking twice

to justfixitnow: that would probably be believed as much as a stuffed jackalope

I would hope to have my camera along, in which case I would shoot a photo. As to shooting it with a gun, why shoot something you cannot eat?

Id put a bullet or two in him.

No, I've already hit my season bag limit.

and im still a field&stream subscriber

well im nine i didnt say id shoot it while im still young

First of all that's a hard question to answer. Because none of us have ever been in that situation. So it's hard to say what you would do. To the ones of you that said you would shoot. I bet 90% of you would freeze up and never make the shot. If you did you would be shaking so hard you would probably miss or make a great gut shot! Let him walk.

if happened to come across Bigfoot, not in my dreams, but some how in reality, i would not not shoot Bigfoot unless it came to self defense

No, I would not shoot any of God's creatures just to shoot it. And if you call yourself a sportsman I don't believe any good sportsman would shoot it just to shoot it. There are two reasons to kill game, food and protection. I don't believe in bagging any game or fish for tropies, but I am not saying those of you who do are wrong. More than likely you are putting your money to good use in helping the economy as well as the environment. Just be safe & God Bless.

Don't think I could afford the taxadermy bills for it nor do I think they sell ape-like mounts so yea I would let this sci-fi fanatic walk.

DONT SHOOT HE OWES ME MONEY!!!!!!

I WOULD PROBABLY SHOOT IT WITH A POTATO GUN OR THROW SOME ROTTEN EGGS AT IT AND THEN RUN LIKE HELL!

Only with a camera. If agressive well... maybe a bigger freezer?!?

Let him walk. The last one I shot took way too long to field dress and process out 700 pounds of meat. The burger wasn't bad but the loins were tough as railroad spikes.

Sasquatch absolutely exist and if you see one please do not shoot it! Life is so much richer when it is full of mystery and the unexplainable. Also, if they were proven to exist it would be one less thing to argue about on this site. We would all have to go back to jawing about the Democrats, gun control and that vicious pack of attack coyotes. Great question ishawooa, way to lighten things up!

BANG! SHOOT FIRST, DONT ASK QUESTIONS.

Hell no, last one was tough as shoe leather, tasted like cedar oil road kill, and smelt reel bad

Well that is a good question so If it was me being an ethical and fair chase hunter I would have to let it go so that future generations could see it. If it was not trying to hurt anyone around me then I would hope that I could get a picture to fit the situtation and then tell all the enviromentalist and organizations that real hunters are the best conservasonates in the Forest and we do take care of mother nature and her animals she gives us and God Blesses us with. That is why we are called Hunters not murderers we have respect for mother nature and our selves. John Alexander

I would shoot it. No one would believe me any other way. An I would do so for "scientific purposes". I will give the body away for research.

I would just let it walk away, or I would walk off. I wasn't hunting it in the first place. If I'm not challenged, I don't respond.

I would ask him for hunting tips, he is in the woods more than I so he should know all the hot spots to hang a stand.

dont shoot it we could have some fun with jerky later

I would ask him where Elvis is hiding.

I'd shoot it so they will stop makin' all the 'does big foot exist" shows that all end in faliure

SHOOT it they dont even exist so if i got in trouble i would say that it looked cool so i had to see what it was. LOL

Does anyone other than me find it off-beat funny that so many assume all Sasquatch are "he"s? There have to be "she" Sasquatch or there wouldn't be any at all. And while we're thinking about it, what if the Sasquatch you saw WAS a "she" & she was looking for love when you saw here? THEN WHAT whould you do, guys? Hmm????

Is it bigfoot season

I would put a leash on him and keep him as a pet

I would definitely shoot it with my Kodak. If I use my rifle, it has either thrown a small boulder at me or it is charging me. If the unfortunate has happened, here are some steps to follow:
1. Call the Game Warden - you will need a government official to identify the species (I know its a bigfoot but better do the thing by the book)
2. Call the Police - they can clear you of any wrong doing if you can prove to them the shooting was in self-defense.
3. Get it to the closest university with either an anthropology department or a veterinary medicine department.
4. THEN call the media, after you have completely covered any angle in which you can get in trouble (taking of an animal out of season/without a license, proving it was self-defense, getting a college department to positive ID the animal for you)

Dakota woman- actually the best footage of bigfoot is a female, the Patterson-Grimlen video. If the one I encountered was a female looking for love? Oh my, that puts a twist to it! I don't think I could afford that much beer!

first id make sure it wasnt a joke then i would blast it so i could stop all the crazy rumors about it. cause if theres one then there is probably more.

i would let it go by,but come back and trap it.i should think having the only live bigfoot would be worth some money!

Whats a BIGFOOT?

Sure I would want bigfoot's head on my wall!!! If I had a dead bigfoot, then we would know it is real.

Half-man, half-monkey? I'd let him go. What would Jenna and Barbara do without thier father?

[rimshot]
No, seriously folks, I'll be here all week!

I would let it walk. I usually like to keep to myself and don't like to draw attention and if some shot Bigfoot you better believe that they would be plastered all over the news until some guy kills a griffin while out duck hunting in arkansas. Plus i would hate to have to field dress it.

If I had a bigfoot tag and it was in season I might shoot it. But I might not because it might just be my neighbor.

Moon it?

Grab some poop, throw it in his eyes and run. What if there's no poop. Don't worry if I see bigfoot there will be plenty of poop.

I would shoot it

hey don't hurt him
he's my best buddy

I would probably stop taking whatever meds i was on at the time.

I would have plenty of time to go back to town and get the game warden, it would be still laughing at me running and screaming like alittle school girl, by the time I got back.

no i wouldn't shoot bigfoot. bigfoot is protected by the federal government. it is illegal to shoot harm capture or trap bigfoot. i would definitely take lots of photos this time and offer them fish and bacon.

I 5' 8" and weigh 120 lbs, and I'm 13 years old. I would try to nail it with a 50 caL or a semi auto shotgun if I had the chance. Like that other guy said, If there is no body, people won't beleive u.

How come it posted that twice?

just take a couple of hundred pictures

If i had no camera and it was clearly watching me i would stand up, aim at it and if it was a guy in a suit he would say something, but if it was bigfoot he would either keep staring or walk away so if he kept on staring than i would shoot him or i would sneak up on him and if i could tell that he was real {if there is a bigfoot} than i would shoot.

Hard to shoot a figment of your imagination.....

I wouldn't know where to aim.

it depends if you are hunting or are lost with nothing to eat. if i was hunting i would leave it alone but if i was lost and starving i would shoot it save the head and eat the rest of him over a fire

i would shoot him because iu would think of him as a trophey.

lol cant make things worse might as well give him a try

I will let it walk away and keep my eye on him just in case he wants to get crazy on me though!!!!!!!

I say let him walk away as long as he's not a threat to me or anybody!!!!!!!

Kaboom!

I'd shoot it but with a camera.

I would shoot it on spot.

i would it look awsome on my wall

i would not kill it just to kill a creature i belive if you kill it you should eat it

I would let it walk. It would be way too much like shooting a human. There is also a good chance that it could be some idiot in a sasquatch costume.

if it just stood there take a picture on my cell phone if it tried to attack me kill it

I wouldnt shoot because its someone in a costume and im not going to jail!

i'd call the cops to come get the guy that was drunk so he would get off prime hounting country

Let him go, he was on his way to meet, the UFO, and go swimming with the Loc Ness Monster. Points

Only in self defence, first i'd just get out of there.

Does it look too bony to eat?

I'd probably just shoot it with the camera and then get some stills. Then I'd ask nicely for some hair samples to run som DNA testing.

Actually, & I know I sound like a nerd, it is a protected species and is illegal to shoot. Look it up.

I wouldn't shoot it but I would take out my super high def camera and get a great pic

I agree with mhutch there is no pointing in killing somthing just to kill it, so I say let him walk.

id get my sights on him and say hey if he atacked id bust his head if he waved id tell him to get off my land or shoot at him or it untel he ran off my laand

I would probably think "she" was my exwife looking for more money and run like H--L

depends if i had just a .22 no if i had my mossberg 500 12 ga. loaded with 3-inch deer slugs then yes

Shooting a bigfoot is bad juju

I would let it go and live life like it should.

I have to go at it mono e mono till the death, just to prove who is really stronger man or beast. No really I would try to get me some good pics and start my career as a Cryptozooligist. I would go to all the scifi conventions and make a good living telling my tale and writing a book about the experience.

well if i somehow was able to determine it was a legit bigfoot, i probably would not stop shooting until it was dead. then with my luck i would end up in prison.

I would drop his furry ass

yeah, definantly wouldn't shoot. i could be an absolute idiot in a suit. don't want that blood on my hands

I'd shoot it only if it was a Red Sox fan.

i would shoot it would end the controversy of whether they exist or not, and then donate it to the smithsonian and allow them to do all the science on it

bang