I found this article quite interesting. Has anyone heard of this guy?

If I'm not mistaken, I think he was interviewed on the Monsterquest 'swamp creature' episode.

He seems pretty tenacious. I'd love to speak with him.

hey homind yes ive heard of researcher dan jackson great new article as well. happy new year. bill green

I think you're right. IIRC, he was the guy who shot at the Skunk Ape that was rummaging in the dumpster.

He was in the recent Monsterquest and is in John Johnsen's 'Keeping the Watch'....seems like a very interesting (in a good way) researcher imo........

If it was him he shot very badly too, he missed and it was right in front of him.

He's got crazy eyes.

and stained undergarments!

Yeah, it seems that he was scared so bad he's not going out anymore. Yet if this story is true, he accomplished his goal in seeing one again, so there you go.

Happy New Year to you too Bill! Hope 2008 is a great year for everyone, and a good one for Bigfoot research!

Its too pat a story that he spent years looking for the creature and missed his chance to bag one. I can't figure out how a guy with his field expierence with dangerous snakes and the tenacity to search for Bigfoot as long as he did would get scared off by the encounter he eventually had. After all he was armed and pulled the trigger which seems like he has a certain amount of intestional fortitude. What kicks this into the trash bin with me is his assertation that he became too frightened and that he missed at close range but has started a website devoted to what hes frightened to chase down again.

Serves the greedy bastard right, gunning for squatchy with his 'big .44'. If he had really done 20 years worth of research he would have known that there are many good-to-eat delectables that could entice squatchy into a close-up, non-violent encounter. Every cowboy moron in the world wants to be the one who makes that million dollar kill shot. Too bad these brainless dweebies haven't figured out that once you're dead not only are you a long time gone, but you're permanently gone (as in forever)! And that goes for every living creature on the planet whose lives man takes by the millions on a daily basis. How do you turn around that sick excuse for thinking? It surely doesn't fall anywhere near the category of BF research.
Dudlow

For all we know he did hit and maybe that is what scared and made it get the hell out of there. Could have died out in the swamp somewhere. When something that startling unfolds that quickly and closely you cant be sure you hit it or not in some cases. Its too bad he didnt have a shotgun, at 10 feet it would be hard to miss and harder for the thing to run away.

He went by Sarasota Dan on the forums back in the day.

No way, Bigfoot dodged that bullett matrix style!

Kinda reminds of a story I heard when I first moved to Hawaii. After the Pearl Harbor attack, apparently one of the Japanese planes crashed on Niihau. When a native approached the wreckage, the pilot opened fire with his sidearm.
The native man proceded to approach this pilot and strangle him. After being shot repeatedly.

I think it was more for protection then to go out and try to gun one down.

If you are interested, do a search here on Mr. Jackson. There's tons of stuff from days gone by.

He very likely did hit it......... do you really think a handgun would slow down a BF? I'd say only if you took a head shot, and even then if it was a glancing hit it would have little effect. Of course, I don't actually believe he saw one to shoot at........

Even a hit from a 44 mag at close range? I dont know guns but I was under the impression that that was a powerful handgun.

I believe he said he fired because he was confronted by a suprised, angry, 8' tall, 700 lb animal. That might do it for me too.

One of the quotes in the article was similar to other reports that I have read:

“He was huffing like a damn freight train”

I thought that there was someone on this board that witnessed this type of behavior and also I think that I remember reading a BFRO report where a man in a truck rolled up on a BF in the ditch and it also behaved this way.

Anyway, I have never had a face to face with a PO'd BF, is there anyone here who has? Because I can't imagine that I personally would be very brave or level headed in a situation like that but maybe I'm not as "manly" as I'd like to think, LOL. Based on my experiences which were not face to face, but at the closest maybe thirty feet in low light/dark I have no desire to be around these animals pretty much ever. So I can see how he may not want to continue to pursue them after an encounter like he describes.

If every encounter with BF resulted in them quickly and quietly walking/running away much like a deer does they would not be nearly as intimidating. But there are many reports where they do act in an aggressive manner...which is not something that I want to be around given the size, strength, speed, agility and intelligence of these animals.

Dan Jackon posted his account on another forum some years back(now defunct), stating he hit the dumpster with the shot. I guess thats the one that got away.

Located his website, but it was down.

It sounds that he acted in self-defense, to imagine he had hostile intent at the outset is doubtful
but always possible. I would imagine he was just getting an adrenaline fix for the second sighting,
got his fill and then realized, the deadly endgame didn't have to continue. Wonder how good he
could detect facial detail in the dark at close range. Obviously a close range daylight sighting was no longer
a risk-adjusted goal once he did the math. Without more practice on the range, he would be a poor
risk at distance too I'm afraid. Leave it to the young bucks with a steady hand on a camera or
camcorder may be his motto now.

I like the idea of hitching a ride on a heli with thermal and scanning one's research area. I need friends like that!

I think Noll did that a couple years back if I'm not mistaken.