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... they are telling us, virtually in so many words, by the very things they say that they are unfamiliar with the evidence. Have you got a body? If you don't have a body then you've got nothing. Not exactly true. I have the pure, ice-cold realization right now that there is at least two massive hominids that exist. Two black ones, and one cinnamon colored I didn't see but two companions saw on the same mountain. No guesswork, no mistaken identity, and 100% certainty. You may think I have nothing - but I think you're the one that has - nothing. You weren't there. You didn't see it. You didn't experience your world being drastically altered and simultaneously expanded in short moments. I actually have something. You're the one that has nothing.

All but two of my footprint finds are crossing human trails where they left prints on trail margins stepping across the human trail. . They seem to avoid human trails when they are going their direction and they could use them. In those trail crossing finds the BF made great effort to avoid stepping on muddy human trails and leaving tracks. Some of the crossing strides were exceptional and far beyond my capability. In one area they had their own trail that basically paralleled a human trail so even when humans trails are present, they choose to travel off trail. They seem fanatic to me avoiding leaving footprints. One of the non trail finds was on a mud flat on a lake shore. Even at that the BF appeared to have been in the lake, stepped out, and walked up the shore to the nearby timber going to great pains to avoid leaving footprints. I found two footprints one large and one smaller, about 20 feet from the waters edge. No footprints were visible in that 20 feet to the water or beyond the two footprints in the muddy section near the lake. The only way that could have been done is to use small patches of grass and vegetation to step on to avoid leaving tracks in the muddy ground. At first I thought that remarkable but then realized I had done nearly the same thing getting near the footprints without getting my boots muddy to examine and photograph the prints. I was not as successful and ended up getting muddy boots. They either hate muddy feet or are fanatic about avoiding leaving footprints. One print was 17.3 inches in length, and the other one was 8 inches. The prints were just a few hours old because according to the camp host, they had a thunderstorm that night with a torrential rainfall. The prints were made after the rain and the mud was cracking as it dried with a sharp border outlining the prints. Meldrum says the 17.3 was likely a female because it was narrow for its length relative to most BF tracks. .

It (liver) is high in nutrition and highly perishable. The rest of the carcass (muscle tissue) would probably be more edible to a large omnivore (sans cooking) after it had broken down with a few days of decomposition, Yep. Most of us eat beef, and we (producers) age the beef. There's the dry aging, where the meat is kept cool and as a bit of dessication occurs, it concentrates the flavor of the beef and also allows for tissue breakdown for easier chewing. Then there's the wet aging - put in vacuum bags after major cuts are made. Aging makes meat easier to chew. Worst, toughest meat I ever ate was a reindeer our scout just killed. Like chewing rubber bands.

Interesting on the cross trail BF crossings. Not understanding the why of that, I think it is interesting when they escort a good number of witnesses out of an area when they feel intruded upon as it seems they are expert at paralleling them and even stopping and pausing when the witness stops and pauses. Another insight is that deer or ungulate trails frequently follow contour lines, this would intersect many straight line human trails and alot of switchback trails to some extent (not quite sure why BF wouldn't engage in the same travel patterns), full well knowing that many native american trails and later wagon roads probably were originally developed by steadfast ungulate travel patterns (probably not so much steadfast blackbear trails). This in montane environments anywhoo where I have the most experience. On another note, I have noted that black bear in the southern appalachians often follow the beeline (not that I haven't seen deer do the same thing when heading down especially), which is a human choice too among those fit enough to put in the effort. Glad most human trails were not designed by black bear. We would have alot of erosion by-way-of shortcutting, So the question is, if a BF is hunting an ungulate, what method of travel and ambush is it most comfortable with? I am reminded of a BFRO sighting in Montana by an elk hunting guide on horseback who eyeballed a BF behind a rootball below the trail. Alerted by his horse, the guy got a good view of the expression on the BF's face apparently which was one of total surprise. as if it was anticipating an elk ambush instead. It sounds as if it was stationed at right-angles to that game trail. ; > }

X2 Norseman...........A Miller from Millersburg OH This has been a great thread and I am so glad to hear I am surrounded by a bunch of red blooded Americans who KNOW what the 2A is all about! I have told myself that I would shoot one if the chance ever came about..................but then I tell myself, "You KNOW you wouldn't be able to pull the trigger on that Awesome creature". I love to hunt and have Personal Defense arms as many here do........Concealed weapons license holder of course. I really liked a post mentioning how Guns are Tools. That is Spot on! If there were no guns, the crazies out there would use whatever means they had to kill.......Guns dont kill, people do. Anyone tells you different is feeding you propaganda in order to keep you at their will. Bigfoot is so much "bigger", if you will, than any other creature in our forests that would be considered typical game.........................There is a lot of video footage and even though most of the videos are fake to jokingly fake, it only takes ONE for it to be real IMHO