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Ford, Chevy, Dodge.  I carry my Glock 20 in 10mm when I'm out in the boonies.  I carried a Glock of one stripe or another with holes in the end ranging from 9mm to 40 to 45 during my police career, so I trust it completely.  I used to carry my beloved Smith & Wesson 44Mag Mountain Gun, but I like the lighter weight and higher capacity of the Glock...plus, fifteen plus one in it and a pair of spares on my hip is a lot of bad medicine for bad critters (most likely 2 legged human variety). I'm not going to pee on another feller's choice of sidearm as long as they are safe enough with it to avoid shooting ME in the foot.  If you like what you carry and you train and practice enough to be competent....carry an old cap & ball Navy 36 if you want to.

I'm pretty egalitarian in my choice of knives.  I carry the same Camillus 6" Hunter I have had since I was 12 for a fixed blade.  It holds a razor edge, has a full tang, and I figure I have known that knife for 45 years, skinned a lot of game with it, used it to baton a lot of kindling, and even lance a boil on my best friend's butt one time in Montana...I don't see a need to change.  For a folder, I carry a 4.2" Spyderco that I carried for the last 15 years I was a cop, and a little two blade Victorinox Swiss Army knife and that's mostly for the tweezers and the toothpick.    

We can make a list of those who were thought to be heretics only to be proven right.  The list would be long.   If Bigfoot was proven 100% to the science, what would the impact be on Jeff Meldrum's legacy in the eyes of science.   I cannot think of a person in the pure sciences more connected to bigfoot than Jeff Meldrum.   Grover Kranz is more of an old school connection in the eyes of science PhD's known mostly only by old dudes like me.  Meldrum has been the science face of Bigfoot for decades.     If Bigfoot was ever proven to that level, I really think Meldrum would be looked at as a revolutionary.  Maybe he would be viewed at the level of the wright brothers.    What would Meldrum's legacy be if Bigfoot was proven?   A)  He would be looked at as the one guy who got it right.  They name a museum after him.  A modern Wright Brothers.   B)  He would be viewed positively but beyond that he would be passed over by the establishment coopting his ideas.  He would have 2 minutes devoted to him on an hour-long Bigfoot PowerPoint lecture.   C)  He would be viewed as a gullible scientist who happen to get it right but was still viewed in an unfordable light.   D)  Jeff Who?     I think science is pretty ethical.  In this way, the answer is A    Could there be some jealously from some enemies of Meldrum now having egg on their face.  Sure.  I still say science as a whole would be on his side.     ANSWER: A  

THAT is right and THAT is something I don't know if we really are ready for.   We think we are.  Many of us on the BFF think we are.   But are we really?     

Interesting takes on What the Government might do question I was proposing.   You guys might be right on target.   I can dream up some really positive scenarios and some really negative ones.   The only prediction I will make for sure is this:  The government would not stop (and the public would demand) a live Bigfoot in a cage.     If this happened, I would be fascinated for 24hrs and then sad the rest of my life.