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I was a cop for 27 years.  I carried, in one flavor or another, a Glock model of some sort/caliber depending upon the whims and tides of the agency.  I started with a Glock 17 in 9mm in 1990, then the department became convinced that we needed 40 cal, so we went to the Glock 22 in 1994, then for what seemed to be about five minutes in the early 2000s we went to the Glock 21 in 45ACP..........then back to the Glock 17 in 9mm again.  Ugh.  That said, I trust the Glock platform 100% and have carried Glock on duty, off duty, shooting in multiple competition disciplines for over 35 years and now since I am retired from LE and a practicing attorney....I still carry a Glock 19 in 9mm. That said....in the woods, mountains, or desert....I carry a Glock Model 20 in 10mm with Buffalo Bore Hard Cast 200 grain TCFP.  It screams out at 1300fps, penetrates deeply, and gives me 16 rounds on tap with a pair of 15 round magazines on my belt for very little weight cost versus ballistic payload, and weight is a consideration because of two knee and a hip replacement as the result of a line-of-duty injury. But, let's be clear....I don't carry to defend myself from a Sasquatch primarily....it's probably 10th down on my list.  The reality is I am convinced that they are dangerous, but not aggressive unless you push the action and so I consider the likelihood of having to engage one to be incredibly remote just based on the number of interactions I have had (1 in 1993) compared to the thousands of hours I have spent in the woods, mountains, and desert over the decades.  Add to that the credible interactions that others have had where no one had to shoot one.  Ape Canyon notwithstanding, but let's face it Fred Beck shot one of them, so yeah...they's be pissed.  I'm not convinced Justin Smeja shot one as he claimed, so I am not going to say he did or he didn't, only that I am not convinced he did. So, the reality is that I carry my 10mm as insurance against bear, mountain lion, feral dogs, wild hogs which I consider to be the most likely threat, and of course humans with bad intent.   Looking back to 1993 when I had my face to face encounter, with decades of hindsight....the thought I had back then that I was going to have to defend myself from the Sasquatch was PROBABLY initiated by ME and my body language or a scent I gve off that caused a defensive posture reaction response in the creature.  I had been a cop for 5 years by this time and my thinking was "threat focused" and "threat management" and "aggression response" and the stimuli of being face to face with something I didn't believe existed back then, or at least didn't believe was a "Michigan Thing" reset my brain clock in a microsecond and my whole reality changed. I am still nine out of ten toes in the "no kill" camp, and I sure as hell don't want to ever be forced to shoot one.  I'd like to see another one, not just hear wood knocks and a couple of suspected vocalizations, and see some suspected prints...but just have that moment where I could experience it again and NOT be thinking "tactically" but more like "Okay, what can I learn?". Sorry for the long post.  Once I got to typing, I got too lazy to stop.  

Cheers, thanks man. 

Losing Jeff was a blow.  I had the great pleasure to speak with him several times and share a lunch.  His mind was...amazing.  He will be missed.

What happened at Roswell? We went from “USAF captures a flying saucer” to “Roswell crash just a weather balloon” in 24 hrs.   The Bigfoot body would disappear and in its place would be some mangy bear with no ears on the slab.   But let’s say it gets out and stays out to the public?   The government is gonna look really really silly first and foremost. And then every 411 missing family is gonna start asking questions. Who is responsible? What is truly out there? Why didn’t you warn us?    The next step will be the uncovering of the cover up. And the government will quickly go from looking silly to looking like lying backstabbing bureaucrats. And that’s probably when the lawsuits start flying in…   When the dust settles it would be awesome for the government to set aside some resources for the promotion of the species. Although I am resolute in my pro kill stance? I have no ill will towards the species as a whole and once recognized they should be protected. They should not be allowed to go extinct.   Lastly it would be one of the greatest discoveries of mankind. Right up there with putting a man on the moon. We are not alone. We have a cousin that still walks the earth living in the same primitive way our ancestors did. Wow!

Bedlam.     Just to start, the environmental industry (and every lawyer associated with them) begin suits to limit homo sapien activities of all kinds in Bigfoot range in order to honor the "Indigenous and tribal peoples’ rights over their ancestral lands and natural resources: Norms and jurisprudence of the inter‐American human rights system. OEA/Ser.L/V/II, December 30, 2009"   http://www.oas.org/en/iachr/indigenous/docs/pdf/report-indigenous-peoples-voluntary-isolation.pdf   The circus would grow from there..............     Unknown. It would take decades for government to deal with it legislatively and judicially. In the meantime, temporary measures would be initiated to keep sasquatches safe from people until the courts finally rule on measures.     Again, it would take years to really get a good idea of the extent of social, commercial, environmental, and other damage that would occur.   A good example would be how people react to a gold strike. As an Alaskan, I have a really good grasp of it, both currently (gold at $3500+ per ounce as I type) and historical, and how it affected aboriginal peoples, but an even better example would be the gold rush in the Black Hills of South Dakota on sacred Lakota land protected by the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, which resulted in a mass violation of the treaty, sparking mass migration of miners into the region. This led to increased conflict between the US and Lakota, known as the Great Sioux War of 1876, which was pretty much the final nail in the coffin of some 400 years of Indian Wars in North America.