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This deserved an encore.

Balls too big, hands too soft, what did Peter build? 😂

I am in the must have gun camp. Here in Florida lots of snakes, bears etc. The worst of the lot is bad humans.

Found this interesting article about a group of homonins that lived high up in the Tibetan Mountains & went extinct around 160,000 years ago. Pretty good read, and let me know what y’all think. Here’s a link.. Hints The Denisovan’s Colonized The Roof Of The World...

1) Yupp since I was a kid 2) Yupp since I was a kid 3) Yupp since I was a kid.... Where do fill out the adoption paperwork! Lol.

Moose are more dangerous than Bears. I’ve had buddies that couldn’t get out of a tree for hours. Joggers get attacked in Spokane. I know Michigan has Moose, and Bears. Ive never needed fire insurance for my house but I’m damn glad I have it. Knives are fine, but be prepared to dance with the devil and loose body essentials. I prefer bringing down the thunder at a distance if at all possible.

UP north in Michigan I think you are OK with a Knife.... I was more pointing towards NW Oregon, Washington State, Tennessee, WV- Some serious wilderness... We camp all the time... Mostly Primative and I always have a weapon with me. I dont always carry it, except when I am going deep.... But it always with me. But just in case, I bring a few of my kids with us, they are my escape Plan... " Son I love you, I will always remember you...Good Luck... See you at the car, Maybe" LMAO Just Kidding it would be one of my daughters... Snort, giggle....

It’s very possible. I also liked that they were living in regions we thought impossible until we showed up. So the land of the Yeti was precolonized by archaic humans.....what’s next? North America?

MIB, I had a copy of the BC hunting regs with me in my SUV, and we checked the season, It runs from Apr 1 to June 15 in the spring, and Sep 10 to Mar 31 in fall/winter, so almost year round here, as well. I'm picking up a tag this week, as I also had a close up cougar encounter last summer, on the east side of Harrison Lake. I was in my vehicle then, so no safety issue, but they seem to be getting much more common, and seem to be quite fearless around people.

^^^^ That is why, since my state's cougar season is year around, I buy a tag and keep it in my pocket at all times. I don't have to put up with that. If one acts "hinky", I don't have to wait for it to do something dangerous to justify shooting it as self defense, instead I just shoot it, slap a tag on it, and go on about my business. MIB

I am not convinced that Standings photo's of a creature are real since I have tried very hard to even capture a picture of one. The only thing I was able to get was its eyes and I was not even trying to get a picture of these creatures. I was just trying to get pictures of deer coming to my bait pile.. When I had my encounter up north in Michigan I tried very hard to get a picture of these things and had no luck. We tried every thing with those trail cams. I even used my camper where I placed my video cam in my camper. It was placed on a table overlooking our camp site while we all went to town for a few hours. What was going on was is that these creatures would come into our camp site when we would all leave and take food or what ever other things that would be use full to them.. We would find their prints in places where they would come into our camp site so we would place the trail cams there. Well they would change on how they would come in and rummage through our stuff. But they did not take our expensive stuff like what a human would do like cameras, blankets and other stuff that some one would steel and pond. But food was their interest and salmon was the favorite. So we used salmon as a attractant and placed the cameras facing at each other across form each other so that they could not sneak up on the salmon. No luck. The one thing that worked at that time was a thermo and having us as bait. This is back in 2001 with a guy that came out with us with a call sign as thermos. I have video of this creature leaving our camp site running back into the woods for a split second. But that video I have not been able to find and feel bad that I have lost it. But I will scan that picture and post it and see if anyone here can work with that scanned photo. I am hoping I can find the negative to that picture which would be much better.

I have a picture of one that was taken on 06/27/08 on a trail cam on a bait pile. I scanned it on my scanner and tried to play around with it on photo shop to see if I could get a clear picture of the creature. The reason was all I had was the eyes since I had a flashing trail cam and it captured was these glowing blue eyes. A reflection from the flash of my trail cam that was at least 30 yards from where the creature was standing. What I can say is that the creature was at least 8' tall and I believe that the eyes were spread apart about 6" - 8" . When I tried to change the photo to a xray type of photo I could see a type of bearded human face with heavy eye brows and hair brushed back with a type of flat nose. There was no cone to it's head and it had a long mustache with the hair coming down to it's neck. I have not be able to find the negatives or else I would have an even clearer picture of this creature and would have posted these negatives on this forum. What I can do is post a scanned picture of what I do have and see if some one else can play with it and see what they can do with it. All I can say is what he has posted is not what I have seen and that is all I can say about Tod Standing . Maybe he has had an encounter and lost those encounters and had to fake what he has now. I am just saying that the pictures he is showing is not what I have seen. All I can say is that I have no reason to lie and I really have nothing to gain. If anything I have lost more by telling people that I have seen these creature then if I have not seen them at all. I would have done better to have kept my mouth shut then to have spoken about what I have encountered. I will try to post that picture so that you can judge it your self. For my self it was just a very lucky shot or was it. In my opinion they followed me from when I had my very first encounter in Foley Swamp, Huron National Forest, Michigan. The word chosen is real and I am now testing that theory by going to other parts of Michigan to see if they find me. I have cameras around my house just for this reason ever since I had a plum tree last year with plums on it have all the plums taken off the tree in a single night.But this is not the info you want.

Be safe. It doesn't do you or anyone else any good to get A+ in-your-face experience with the species if you don't survive the encounter.