Ken,
Your pro kill and that is all that matters, we small band of brothers, hit the dark timber and try to solve this mystery when we are not being husbands and fathers, on any given weekend, or that precious weekday off work when the honey do list is done.
We are few but our voice is growing, we no longer feel the status quo is working, and does nothing to advance our cause......which is discovery. Not grainy photos or plaster casts but bona fide discovery.
As a grass roots movement that is growing we have a real shot at this, it doesn't matter if it's you or me or any other feller, just so long as it's done, done right and a species prospers.
Yes there are nay sayers...there always will be, and they give a million reasons why it shouldn't be done, cannot be done, why we will fail or be shredded in the process. Many judge us as narsisstic cowboys with some thing to prove. That's ok too....... I think history if our hunches are proven correct? Will judge us differently, maybe blunt and crude but with good intentions and a sense of urgency......
So no our discussion about methods and gear can become heated, but that's how we are gonna be successful by trial and error.
This is the essence of Project Grendel. A pro kill group resetting the debate to a very narrow focus of pursuit, discussing, boots on the ground, AAR, rinse and repeat.