Woodknocking (Does it Work?)

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Just wondering if anyone here has tried woodknocking, and if so, does it work?

Josh

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yes it does i happen to do it on a mistake just playing around ,,, i was showing and asking them if they heard the woodnocking and then i got the retrun nock ,,wow,, so yes it does work there was no one around robert kennedy

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Sounds good!

[thomassteenburg]

jvd said:

Just wondering if anyone here has tried woodknocking, and if so, does it work?

Josh [/quote


Josh there could be a dozen explanations for the sound of wood knocking. Again just because you hear some sound in thee trees around you doesn't mean that a sasquatch is responsible. Until someone sees a sasquatch doing this assume nothing.

Thomas Steenburg

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lol thomas you can sure tell the truth ,,lol but be a bummer at the same time i am having a ggod lugh rob up here in sechelt sayimg hi

[Gerry]

there have been reports of people seeing just that..but I agree..take them with a grain of salt..
I believe that two different people claim to have seen the critter do this..but it was not for communication..rather it would whack a tree and then peer up into the branches to detect any movement!
If this is true or not..who knows..you have only their word for such.

[sebastian]

I think that wood-knocking is even less reliable as evidence than vocals. But some reports did indicate that wood-knocking are assoiated with alleged sasquatch vocals. I say that it is no hurt trying, just make sure that one is far from other people /campsites. Think about it, only human and sasquatch are capble of wood-knocking. Always good to have bits of information added to the data base.
cheers,
seb

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Sebastion...you are dead wrong when you state that only humans and sasquatch are capable of making wood-knocking sounds heard in the forest.
When an old, mature bull moose (say one over five or six years of age) answers another bull (male) moose challenge call or vocalization during the mating season (commonly known as the rut) he will generally answer by banging his antlers on a good sized tree so the sound will carry a great distance. In other words, the older bull moose is offering a challenge to the younger bulls (usually without cows to breed) by saying in their language: Here I am sonny! If you think you are tough enough, come over and we'll have a good fight.
Older bull moose are very smart when answering calls and will not usually talk (vocalize) much and give away their position to predators. They did not get old by being stupid. In the wilds nature has a way of dealing with the dumb and weak of any species, and the end results are not generally pretty to look at.
You should also be aware that there are moose and grizzly bears in your research area. Although the moose are not too thick, the big grizzly bears are growing in numbers each and every year. Ask Thomas Steenburg and Bill Miller about the huge grizzly they recently spotted over in the Big Silver Creek area.
In the latest edition of Bobbie Sort's newsletter there is a Sasquatch researcher from the Prince George area claiming to have heard return wood-knocking calls after he gave a bull moose call during the rutting season. I'd be willing to bet dollars to doughnuts that what he heard was an old bull moose banging its antlers on a tree in response to his challenge call. I have had dozens of angry bull moose looking to rumble come to the call. I have also witnessed both mule deer and black bears flee in terror when a mad bull moose is coming in for a battle.
I have some good video that will prove exactly what I'm saying should you want to see it the next time you are out this way.

Bushman

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I have had a couple of occasions where I had some interesting response to woodknocking. One was something(whether human or animal, I can't say) returned a series of knocks. The second time I and my research partner experienced an intense vocal response at our research area. I cannot say what this was other than strange, loud and out of place. The knock we did was on a whim and basically a "let's just try it here" act. We were caught by suprise. I don't know if woodknocking is squatch related or not. I do know that it is recorded in encounter reports and talked about by alot of different people. Even Native Americans relate tales of woodknocking. The best I can describe what I experienced on both occasions is what I did above: Strange and out of place and on one occasion loud.

Mike

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Mike...please don't get me wrong, I'm certainly not saying that Sasquatch don't occasionally bang on trees with a big stick or small log for whatever reason their hearts desire. What I am saying, is that there are other animals that also bang on trees. It seems that if people hear banging on trees in the woods nowadays it is automatically taken for granted a Sasquatch is doing it. That simply is not the case up in our neck of the woods.

Bushman

[sebastian]

Thanks Bushman for the valuable information. I have no idea that bull moose are able to produce wood-knocking sounds. So, I guess that wood-knocking isn't as reliable as I think anymore.

and yes, i know that there are grizzlies around there. But I saw signs of black bears as well, so I don't think that there were any grizzlies in the area at the time. I am still waiting for Mr. Miller to show me his videotape of that grizzly.
cheers,
seb

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Hi Sebastion,

I believe you would be amazed to hear the similairity of sound and sequence of knocks between a bull moose banging its antlers on a tree and some of today's purported Sasquatch tree-knocking sounds.

Grizzlies and black black bears share much of the same range throughout British Columbia. I have seen their sign and them both within a short distance of each other while hunting big-game throughout northern British Columbia.

When it comes to claiming a food source is when the smaller, weaker and less aggressive black bears stay well away from the grizzlies if they know what's good for them.

Bushman

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I agree Bushman. Whitetail deer, black bear all utilize trees for one thing or another. Deer use them to remove velvet off their racks and black bear will claw them up for territory and looking for insects. We don't have to contend with moose or grizzly in our neck of the woods.
One thing we do have and I'm sure you do is alot of logging. Mostly pines down here. They will have crews go in before cuts and scout the timber. Sometimes I think folks hear some of those guys banging around marking and sampling trees.

[ogie]

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