David Lauer is a Florida hunter on a mission. After winning a $100,000 research grant on Spike TV's reality competition "10 Million Dollar Big Foot Bounty," Lauer has a strengthened resolve to find Bigfoot.

The Mandarin outdoorsman says that after he and his hunting partner, Stacy Brown, won the prize money, he invested it into high-tech hunting gear, including game cameras, night vision recorders, heat seeking telescopes, DNA testing kits and a dart gun and plaster. He hopes these tools will help him track down the mysterious creature.

"Right here, this is the gear you need when you're going to look for Bigfoot in the woods," Lauer told First Coast News during an exclusive interview.

Lauer, who is a member of a group called the Sasquatch Hunters based in North Florida, says that he became passionate about finding Bigfoot in 2009 after he saw an odd-looking animal while he was hunting for hogs.

"And I hear what sounded like a woman screaming, I need to get up and go check this out," he said.

He then saw a bush that was shaking violently and the forearm and hand of an animal he didn't recognize.

"That's when that fire, it finds a home in you and it becomes that adventure out there on that quest to find these things ... and that's what's driving me," Lauer explained.

The Gulf Coast Bigfoot Research Organization (GCBRO) is also determined to find and kill an adult male Sasquatch for scientific study. In a new special called "Killing Bigfoot," a group of hunters, veterans and outdoorsmen went on a journey through Texas and Louisiana to shoot the mythical beast, reports the Los Angeles Times. The hour-long program premiered on Oct. 24 on Discovery's Destination America channel.

In a trailer for the program, one hunter declares that the purpose of the mission is to kill a Bigfoot in order to get the government to admit that the mysterious creatures are real:

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