I think you overestimate their fear of guns.   It's not the gun, it's the person holding it.    SCARED people with guns are dangerous, unpredictable, volatile.   Calm, confident people with guns are just calm, confident people .. not a threat.   It's the fear that turns the gun into a hazard.   Humans telegraph fear quite loudly in our posture, motions, and so on.    I've had a couple of sightings, camp visits at night, been punked / messed with .. and every time, minus one, I had a gun, often a hunting rifle slung over my shoulder, not something hidden.    It ain't about the gun, it's about the human.

I have always believed they think anything held by a human is a gun. 

@Daniel Perez 

No doubt, and despite the fact that nobody can definitively say what it is there’s still no shortage of people flippantly dismissing it as a bear because the idea that it could be something else is one they don’t want to deal with.  Just like Patty is a guy in a suit, sure…..

First time poster!  I was reading some past threads and there was one about old Bigfoot newsletters, which got me wondering about how many there have been.  Does anyone know?  Here are the ones that I can find and I would appreciate any additional information or corrections:   The Bigfoot Times - Daniel Perez (Jan 1998 - still in print; I subscribe) Monthly Bigfoot Report - Don Keating (1992 - ?) Bigfoot Bulletin - George Haas (1974 -1977, monthly) Track Records - Ray Crowe (1992 - 2004?) Bigfoot News - Peter Byrne (Oct 1974 - 1979)   Other than The Bigfoot Times earlier incarnation (1979-1986), were there none in the 1980s?   Thanks!