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<blockquote data-quote="crkckr" data-source="post: 2916904" data-attributes="member: 78056"><p>When I was in Tucson many, many years ago, I had a guy from Catalina (just the other side of Mt Lemon from Tucson) come in to my shop and during the course of conversation, he mentioned something about "They shouldn't be able to shoot mountain lions because they're so scarce" or something to that effect. His contention was that since he'd never seen any, they just weren't around. His property was right on the edge of the city with nothing but scrub and desert behind him. I told him he was probably surrounded by the big cats, 'yotes and lots of other critters he'd never seen before and basically, he called me a liar! Why, he'd lived out there for 15 years and never saw anything but the rabbits and sometimes deer. So I told him, let's make a date some evening and we'll do some calling and see what comes in, to which he agrees. On the appointed evening, just after twilight, I show up and we drive my old pickup to the back of his property. I dig out my million power light, my coat and a Rossi double barrel 12 gauge, which I loaded and set on the hood of my truck. He says, "What's that for?" I told him "because you never know what's going to come in to the call!" He scoffed but didn't say any more. So after sitting there for about 15 minutes, I start squalling on my call for about 4 minutes. When I switched on the light he gasped loudly! First thing the light falls on is a mountain lion maybe 30 yards away, standing there big as day and not at all caring about the light in his face. A 'yote not 20 yards away skooted off as soon as I put the light on him, as did his buddy who was only a few feet behind him. The guy was flabbergasted there were so many critters in his own back yard that he'd never seen before! I even managed to call in another cat and a deer! He just couldn't believe there were so many eyes out there, most of which we couldn't identify except that they were watching us! I told him these eyes had been watching him ever since he moved in there but he was actually shocked into silence! I love doing stuff like that!</p><p></p><p>As to big foot, I've never seen or heard anything that I couldn't identify out in the woods (in which I've spent a fair amout of time over the years, usually alone, and today I live in the woods!), so I guess I could be counted among the skeptics. Not saying they aren't out there, just that I've never seen anything that could have been one. I am very skeptical of self proclaimed experts who offer nothing but second, or third (or more) hand stories of what someone else saw. The same goes for aliens, out of body experiences and other paranormal events. I guess I'll believe when it happens to me. My biggest "evidence" *against* ghosts is that when my grandmother (who was a believer in all things ghostly) was dying I made her promise me that she would come to me and give me some kind of sign that I simply couldn't miss and she agreed. All these years and not a thing from her. Oh well, I guess I'll have to wait until I die to find out for sure. I'm in no hurry, mind you, but I don't think it's too likely. Oh well, what else can I say? I have as much "evidence" against as anyone else has for, so there!</p><p>Cheers,</p><p>crkckr</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="crkckr, post: 2916904, member: 78056"] When I was in Tucson many, many years ago, I had a guy from Catalina (just the other side of Mt Lemon from Tucson) come in to my shop and during the course of conversation, he mentioned something about "They shouldn't be able to shoot mountain lions because they're so scarce" or something to that effect. His contention was that since he'd never seen any, they just weren't around. His property was right on the edge of the city with nothing but scrub and desert behind him. I told him he was probably surrounded by the big cats, 'yotes and lots of other critters he'd never seen before and basically, he called me a liar! Why, he'd lived out there for 15 years and never saw anything but the rabbits and sometimes deer. So I told him, let's make a date some evening and we'll do some calling and see what comes in, to which he agrees. On the appointed evening, just after twilight, I show up and we drive my old pickup to the back of his property. I dig out my million power light, my coat and a Rossi double barrel 12 gauge, which I loaded and set on the hood of my truck. He says, "What's that for?" I told him "because you never know what's going to come in to the call!" He scoffed but didn't say any more. So after sitting there for about 15 minutes, I start squalling on my call for about 4 minutes. When I switched on the light he gasped loudly! First thing the light falls on is a mountain lion maybe 30 yards away, standing there big as day and not at all caring about the light in his face. A 'yote not 20 yards away skooted off as soon as I put the light on him, as did his buddy who was only a few feet behind him. The guy was flabbergasted there were so many critters in his own back yard that he'd never seen before! I even managed to call in another cat and a deer! He just couldn't believe there were so many eyes out there, most of which we couldn't identify except that they were watching us! I told him these eyes had been watching him ever since he moved in there but he was actually shocked into silence! I love doing stuff like that! As to big foot, I've never seen or heard anything that I couldn't identify out in the woods (in which I've spent a fair amout of time over the years, usually alone, and today I live in the woods!), so I guess I could be counted among the skeptics. Not saying they aren't out there, just that I've never seen anything that could have been one. I am very skeptical of self proclaimed experts who offer nothing but second, or third (or more) hand stories of what someone else saw. The same goes for aliens, out of body experiences and other paranormal events. I guess I'll believe when it happens to me. My biggest "evidence" *against* ghosts is that when my grandmother (who was a believer in all things ghostly) was dying I made her promise me that she would come to me and give me some kind of sign that I simply couldn't miss and she agreed. All these years and not a thing from her. Oh well, I guess I'll have to wait until I die to find out for sure. I'm in no hurry, mind you, but I don't think it's too likely. Oh well, what else can I say? I have as much "evidence" against as anyone else has for, so there! Cheers, crkckr [/QUOTE]
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