Watch Bigfoot Hunter and Survival Expert Jim LeBus demonstrate Fireball Gun on mock Bigfoot [Free Video]
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After his encounter with Bigfoot, survival expert Jim LeBus is determined to bring back a specimen. He's so passionate about this that he built himself a Fireball Gun.
Click here to watch LeBus on the free episode of Invention USA by the History Channel.
Here's an article summarising why Jim's invention didn't make the cut from Entrepreneur.com:
The Key Question Inventors Don't Ask Before Seeking Funding
Wondering what makes investors back an invention? The new History Channel show Invention USA provides a crash course in the fundamentals of creating an appealing new product.
The debut episode earlier this week opened with an oddball inventor whose idea is even more out there: A gun that fires two chemical pellets that, when they strike the target, combine and cause an explosion.
The inventor explains that the primary use he envisions for this is -- get ready -- for stopping Bigfoot from attacking you. No joke.
What's the problem with that?
Even if you believe in Bigfoot, how often would you encounter one and need to defend yourself? Even Bigfoot enthusiasts would have to admit sightings are rare. Even if you broaden the appeal to people who might encounter a bear, attacks are still infrequent.
Translation: The potential market for this invention is tiny. And that's a big turnoff for investors.
Investors want businesses that can scale big. That means their market opportunity has to be large. The product must also be something a mass audience would want.
Unsurprisingly, the Bigfoot-stopper is a bust with the show's hosts, Reichart Von Wolfsheild and Garrett Lisi, who connect promising inventions with angel investors on the show.
The second invention in the episode is more promising -- a glove you can use like a Bluetooth cell-phone transmitter. This avoids the usual scrabbling around in your pocket or purse to try to grab your phone before it stops ringing.
The hosts are skeptical at first, but decide to do a little on-the-street market testing, and discover consumers love the idea.
How many people own cell phones? Estimates are, half of all Americans will by year-end. And that's just one country.
In sum, the market is huge. No surprise that Von Wolfsheild and Lisi sign up to invest.
The Video below is LeBus talking about his Bigfoot experience.
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I have known Jim for many years and have been lucky enough to camp with him on many occasions and will tell you few are more able in wild settings.
ReplyDeleteJim has done a bad job getting one point across and thinks people are attacking the idea instead of the design. A compact light weight gun that fires projectiles that combine in bursts of flame is a very good way to deter cougars grizzly and bigfoot if thats your taste. The concept and idea is a good one but Jim does not own a custom parts factory. He built a prototype whose performance was based on not being able to build to spec- it did show that a gun like this can be manufactured and powered cheaply with a few modifications to existing engineering and design.
Jim gives advice to everyone he camps with and has always told us the key to survival is to just repeat in your head over and over "I'm a survivor I'm a survivor, i'm not going to give up i'm not going to stop im going to work harder, I'm a Survivor not going to give up not going to stop going to work harder"
Hey, sometimes the brightest people are the most eccentric. I think you should make him your blog's mascot. I'd like to see a weekly entry by him. He's a character, but then the "normal" people don't invent the extraordinary things, do they?
ReplyDeleteSquatchdork.
ReplyDeleteSounds like he's in a rush to do some prison time. And pay some HEFTY fines. This is a rare species we're talking about. The Feds will fry him.
ReplyDeleteI think this guy may have threatened me on youtube.
ReplyDeleteThis is Jim LeBus. I told you all before I am gonna git me one of dem Sasquatch critters and i was not joking. Anyone who dont like it is just gittin there brains controlled by the government. I can help you stop this and invented a tin foil hat that blacks out the signals.
ReplyDeletethis guy is out of his mind, a total loon,
ReplyDeletepeople like him are the reason why people
laugh and roll their eyes after they here
bigfoot mentioned.
Why does someone need to light up any creature to stop an attack?
ReplyDeleteIt looks like you'd have to quite close in order to hit anything.
What's wrong with pepper spray,making noise,bear bells etc? In dire needs a bean bag gun would probably work.
Good luck shooting a bear with a .38 hand gun.You better be a good shot.
The gun may have other useful applications,but at the moment I can't think of any.Unless starting a forest fire counts.
Hell why not carry a flame thrower at least we know they work. LOL
ReplyDeleteI hope he bags a squatch and ends the idiocy that goes along with bigfoot.
ReplyDeleteI can see the headline now: Bigfoot Hunter Shoots Ranger
ReplyDeleteCom on. There is no way thats bigfoot that he is shooting at. Another hoax.
ReplyDeleteDumb ass. The title of the article says mock bigfoot.
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