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Snakes are indeed prevalent in the area however, the black bear density has exploded like lawyers showing up at a auto wreck. We had to pull all the feeders off the mountain as they were wrecking them left & right. Now, the sows/cubs are showing up in the river bottom possibly having been run off and escaping the boars prowling the mountaintop. We've found fresh scat almost every trip up onto the higher benches looking for burial evidence in the caves and crevices. Another critter that's made a fresh appearance in significant numbers the past ~24 months are feral swine. The landowner recently spent $1K+ to have a trio of his Rhodesian Ridgebacks and one Mountain Cur stitched up after a fight with a boar that weighed >400# on the cotton scales. A year ago last October I walked into a group of sows and footballs while checking out a lane under the bluff along the Arkansas River side of our Pawnee lease. The big gal charged me and am here to testify the .38 Hornady +P will penetrate to the vitals. A week later while up top on the western edge, climbing up to a hanging stand I had perched out over the bluff top, I PO'd a huge boar that apparently had been bedded under an outcrop ~20 yards from the stand. He ran back and forth along the rim looking for me growling and snorting akin to a bear growl. The bow was still slung on my back but managed to unholster the 1911. Couldn't get a good shot as he crashed through the cedar brush near the stand. Finally, he bailed off into the coulee down to the river bottom. Bottom line, the Kiamichi's are full of bear and hogs. They are usually big & black which possibly creates the catalyst for misidentification, especially if a person's mindset has already been pre-primed to be looking for something else.

Don't need him in order to pursue the truth of this thing. Moneymaker moved to Akron, Ohio in the 90's to finish a law degree- which he didn't finish. Went Bigfooting instead. Met, and was an acquaintance of, Don Keating of the Eastern Ohio Bigfoot Investigation Center back then. (The same Keating who lied about his own supposed September 1985 personal sighting, went on radio twice in 2008 and lied some more, and ran the Ohio Bigfoot Conference for 20 years until 2012). I wouldn't have Moneymaker within a thousand miles of my camp.

Rob Lowe has quite the video collection as I understand it.