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I thought about your question a bit and how that applies to bears. We have pretty good scientific population estimates for bears in Alaska: 200K black bears, 35K brown bears, and 5K polar bears, for a total of 240K bears of all species. We have no cougars or venomous snakes. I looked up the average number of bear attacks in Alaska annually: So four fatal and 4 non-fatal attacks (total of 8 serious attacks) per year out of 240K bears, or 0.003% of bears are potential man killers. If we used the same math on an estimated 5000 sasquatches, there would be 0.17 dangerous sasqatches out there.

Which time? Not at the moment, or even before I go out into the Bush. But I would if I saw one, even at a distance, and even well armed. If I saw one while glassing for moose, caribou, or bear, after I lost visual contact, it's time to break camp and head back home. I'd hazard a guess at 1%, so if there are 5000 sasquatches out there in North America, maybe 50 would kill a person under the right circumstances. Too much to type again. Later I'll link a couple stories I posted here in the past.........

What happened when you almost killed your self? Do you fear bigfoot? How many out of a 100 are people killers? Can you tell us about some of your expeditions and some of the exciting stuff that happened with you? Uh

Published in The Cleveland (OH) Press on August 09, 1926, but the encounter occurred in Michigan. Tirademan mentioned finding such a story in Ohio in the 1920s, but I have been unable to identify it.

I packed spray for my cook tent in remote hunts. Weight and bulk weren't concerns (I use a off-road rig to get out there), and the thought was that it might work on a young, curious bear, negating the need to kill it. The social jury here in Alaska is that it might work on such bears, but that, too, depends on the bear. One friend has a bee hive on his deck (insanity where he lives up Eagle River valley). Sure enough, he got a bear on his deck, but instead of a thousand pound brown bear, it was a small black bear. He stepped out and shooed it away. In a few minutes it came back. He stepped out with the shotgun and fired a round into the air. It ran off, and in a few minutes it came back. He loaded a bean bag round in it and shot the bear on the fanny. It takes off............and in a half hour, is back. Finally, he puts it down with a slug. He calls the Troopers to report a DLP, and a Trooper shows up, throws it into the back of his pickup, and drives off. Didn't make my friend skin it out or even fill out the DLP report. Would spray have worked better? Dunno. Maybe the bear would have been uncomfortable enough to learn something. Since it was a young, small bear, it might have educated him and saved his life for a decade or so. But, then, maybe not. But my friend had walls between him and the bear and daylight outside, which gave him plenty of safety to decide what to do. A bear in the night while you're wrapped up in a sleeping bag inside a tent? That's a whole different scenario. Like this guy: http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=15821 Sorry. AFAIC, that guy wasted too much ammo (ie, >1 round) on warning shots. I'd have shot that sasquatch as sure as sin, then sat with my back against a rock wall until daylight and ready to shoot more of them. There is absolutely, positively no way I'm going out into the wilderness without at least two firearms: a rifle and a sidearm.

Published in the New Philadelphia (OH) Daily Times on July 23 and July 30, 1919.

Search “meth heads vs cops” on you tube. I question how well it works on human zombies as well.

^^^ Agreed. I'm thinking of the Byrna only for potential human problems. I figure the pepper spray against Bigfoot would be like bear spray is to bears - seasoning, according to one grizzled backpacker I met.

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Published in The Akron (OH) Beacon Journal on November 15, 1911. Yes, I know that they're monkeys, not apes. And I know that they're really monkeys, not Bigfoot explained away as monkeys. But for all the newspaper articles blaming a Bigfoot encounter on an escaped ape or an escaped gorilla from a circus train or a zoo or a menagerie, this is the only report I've found of actual escaped primates!

If you live in a locality that restricts carrying firearms. The choice has been made for you. Don't expect a defensive device that works sometimes on humans to be effective on a creature twice the size of humans.

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Thanks to both. The problem w/a shotgun (which I am considering for the home, even though we've retired to Mayberry) is that some states/locales criminalize carrying loaded weapons (and NY essentially defines "loaded" as having the ammo and the firearm in the same county). I appreciate that its better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6, but in some places, being judged by 12 is not a sane choice. I suspect that any further digression down that line will have to go to the tarpit; however, I'm punching out for the night.

Well, then, the answer is clearly NO, and that has absolutely nothing to do whith critters. I'm proof of that. My many brushes with death were primarily the elements, not aggressive animals. Partners in the field can save your life.............but they can also shoot you accidentally, which happened to me as well. In fact, my trips into the Bush went primarily solo in the early 2000's because my partners became too dangerous, needy, or just plain intolerable, and I felt safer without them............until I damned near killed myself a few times. It's just dangerous out there, and sasquatches are the very least of my worries (except Alaska has no snakes, so I don't worry about them at all, and I'm very thankful).

I'm reducing travel, even to Anchorage, to only-if-necessary. Last winter, just hours after arriving in Vegas, I was in a situation where I had my hand on my weapon and was ready to shoot. The thugs drove away. Another very strange and suspicious character loitered nearby during and after this confrontation. Later, miles away in a rural area and right after bedding down in the motorhome, "somebody" started jiggling the door knob (turned out to be a cow licking the door knob). In both cases, I can't imagine feeling better about the situations with the equivalent of a bean bag round. Times are tense. I kinda' like it here. I think I'll just stay home until Mrs. Huntster forces the issue.

If Sasquatch is a member of the genus Homo or closely related to it? There is a very strong possibility it is a cannibal. Just as the old Indian legends seem to suggest. https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/humans-evolutionary-relatives-butchered-one-another-145-million-years-ago There is evidence in our genus of cannibalism from almost 1.5 million years ago. Cut marks from stone tools on bone. I do almost all of my trekking any more solo. It’s a risk. Be safe folks.

I would buy a shotgun. For whatever the reason the gun control lobby isn’t scared of them. I think a shotgun is good for all 50 states and Canada. And slugs and buckshot don’t care about wind or paintball breakage, etc.

Well, I hope that you come through the other side unscarred by the increased pressure! An old Army motivation poster (by an unknown artist) showed a guy getting squashed in a vice with limbs akimbo and bloodshot eyes bulging out and he's saying, "Go ahead, you SOB, tighten it some more!"

That is a fair question as long as it is asked as "is it wise for ME to do this" vs "is it wise for YOU to do this" especially with an undercurrent of attempted manipulation / control over others choices. My fuse .. in real life .. is getting shorter and shorter with people telling ME not to do a thing simply because THEY are afraid to do it or because they are too feeble to do it. It goes along with people trying to get me to do a thing simply to give them a crowd to hide in. (Example .. some years ago my buddy was encouraging me to cheat on my GF .. his foster daughter .. because "you're not married." Turns out he was cheating on his wife and was really looking for the chance to say "well, MIB is doing it so it can't be so wrong." Jerk.) It is possible I'm wrapped around the axle a bit to tightly .. but for the next 4-5 years, life is going to increase that pressure for me, not decrease.

Anyone have any thoughts on Byrna less lethal stuff? Considering getting one under the theory that its less of a hassle when traveling.

^^ Good points MIB about assumptions, assertions, etc. I don't think the OP was proposing a "ban" on what people do in the woods alone, though, in my read of it. I read it more as, "is it wise to do this?" I'll take this opportunity to note that my point in flagging the available resources that could answer these questions was not to "zing" the OP or anyone else. There are just too many good threads on the forums that get buried under flotsam and jetsam. I've spent the better part of 30 years arguing (semi-successfully) that large federal bureaucracies need to do a better job with knowledge management. That problem is magnified in a loose organization like the Forums. Fortunately, I was just about to ask a question in another thread and remembered to do a quick search before I typed!

Moreover, those are a lot of assumptions and assertions to unpack, essentially none proven. We should never forget that though I think they are predators, omnivores, there are a number of people who would swear on their grandma's grave that BF are strict herbivores. If that's the case, then the whole question of predation is moot. Who presumes the right, or authority, to "ALLOW" **me** to go into the woods or not, alone? What fool presumes someone else has the right to dictate that to me .. or to anyone else? The whole notion of someone attempting that stupidity makes my blood boil.

Those are a lot of questions to unpack. Any wild animal that is desperately trying to survive old age or serious injury would likely be dangerous to humans as without weapons we are the most helpless critters in the forest/jungle. (Except for pandas, of course. Seriously, google panda videos and ask yourself how these animals actually survive in the wild....) In going through old newspapers, I've run across several articles where tigers, elephants, bears, and wolves were said to hunt/injure humans out of "hate." As Silverback and Huntster state, yes, a wild animal (Bigfoot) is likely to act like other wild animals. As to the questions about whether certain national parks are dangerous and what specific cases involve, there is no end of information in threads such as the missing 411 thread at As to what kind of firearm (not necessarily a pistol) to carry in the backwoods, several members of the Forums who have extensive backwoods experience have offered opinions at this thread. Between the two threads, that's over 50 pages of discussion on most of the substance asked about. As to the "should people go out and do dumb things?" question, No. They shouldn't. But that didn't stop some guy from camping out with grizzlies because "they were used to him" or a New Jersey hiker from going up in the Adirondacks in shorts and a t-shirt without adequate food, warm clothing, and other survival stuff, and they both died even without help from Bigfoot.