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Squatchy Mcsqautch. your dog must think you very slow if he had to spell it out for you and then also explain to you what it meant.

Which field would that be, Rockape?

Actually you said several things. Thanks for posting that anyway Sasfooty, I appreciate it. I'm sure we won't agree on what it is but I now have the info I need to form an opinion. I have now stated my opinion and will move on unless someone wants to dispute my opinion. I'm not here to try to make you out a fool or beat you over the head with this. I asked a question and you answered, you didn't take your ball and go home. THAT happens too often here and I appreciate you being one who isn't afraid of tough questions.

No burn. Only deliberate curiosity. If you take this approach, and keep your expectations in check, you do not make yourself vulnerable at all. I keep my eyeballs peeled when I am out of doors anyway, always. If I spot something that fits my understanding of what this animal is, I will have chalked up another experience of the kind I hope to have plenty of by the time I croak. If I don't, I'll still have lots to reflect on that is pretty special too. I think we call this outcome a "win-win", am I right? No timetable. Low expectations. Look for consistencies in the evidence and follow it. Do that, and you're playing the long, smart game, I believe. I"m astounded at all the mind-blowing discoveries that have been made in my short life. None (Repeat: NONE) of those were my due, or anyone else's. They could just have easily not happened. I'm just grateful to my fellow humans that they expended the calories to make them, or were paying attention when those were dropped in their laps, and had the presence to document them when they did. I'm thankful for all those adults and teachers who steered me right as a kid to pay attention to that kind of knowledge, and who stoked my energy to stay curious, to this day. Life would be a pretty grim undertaking without that... for me at least. I try to find a down-side to this field of inquiry, and I'm frankly unable to ever see any.

Nobody's forcing bigfoot to do anything, but we see them in places we assume they normally wouldn't be. Ergo, assumption that they keep to the forest of necessity is questionable. Heck, they didn't just crop up in 1959. They've been around for millennia, and for millennia we have competed with them for prime habitat, sometimes violently if certain lore is indicative. There have even been times when we deforested far more of the continent than is now deforested. We haven't done them in yet, and I don't think we're about to.

Ahhhhhh.....it's a great day, and a long time coming. I have mentioned in previous posts about a home-made camera trap that I have used occasionally for over 10 years. Unfortunately, it has very limited battery life of about 20 hours, and as a result, haven't used it much. The set up solves many of the issues that its store bought cousins have, and now........daddy got battery life!!! I found a buddy who's an off-duty fireman, and he made these for me, with many more coming. The cameras look like they came off the shelve at Cabela's, and will now last about a month in the field. Yes, this is ancient technology with 35mm, but is better IMO for game cameras because they fire so much faster. A brief recap of my Camera Trap; pressure sensitive rubber mats buried in a game trail - or under a window, in front of cooler at a camp site, etc., and NOT giving off any electrical impulses. Two cameras in different locations, and aimed at a specific spot, so Depth of Field is known, setting up two prefect pictures of the same event. I experimented using more cameras, and works, but the flashes start affecting each other. My next batch will have another connection to plug in, so it starts a field recorder. The idea being the flash at night might set off a verbal reaction.......like a BF busting my cameras all to heck, but hopefully not:) Here's a pic of me with one camera in a tree, and you can tell it fired instantly the moment I stepped on the buried mat. Anybody in Texas that knows of a good habitual BF area.......let's talk, time for the big guy to saw "cheese".