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I would pay your flight and all ammo if you killed 130 deer in my neighborhood. I doubt it would put much of a dent in the county deer population but the yotes would be pissed. All the meat could go to a food pantry if you want to feel good about it. I would just be happy to reduce the odds of another collision with my wife's car, reduce the chance of lyme disease, and save my shrubs. I would and do frown on clubbing seals if that counts. KInd of like shooting a couple child BFs with a 308.

Got problems with "bush meat" in sub-Saharan Africa?.: https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/16936/20150923/illegal-ivory-25-walrus-killed-alaska-raise-poaching-concerns.htm But they caught these guys: https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Four-sentenced-for-2015-walrus-slaughter-near-Cape-Lisburne-420025043.html Oh, BTY, this walrus poaching/wasting was committed by young men from the same village as the example I linked above of the slaughter of 130+ caribou that were left on the tundra to rot.......which Old Mort somehow found objection to. I guess I'm a racist or something........sorta' like the village elders that refuse to cooperate with either state or federal authorities that regularly show up to investigate this kind of crime. I've gotten used to Old Mort's disapproval, but I'm curious; does he approve of wanton waste, or is it that he just thinks that when "special people" do it, we have an obligation to remain silent about it? I've killed lots of caribou. More than I can remember. Fed my family for years with them. There's caribou meat in the freezer right now. But I haven't killed even close to 130 of them. That would have fed my extended family for my entire life. And those scumbags left them to rot, then behaved like inner city criminals rioting and looting as if they had an inherent right to do so. Better not let me catch 'em. They'll be found with their waste. Go ahead.........punch your disapproval..........

You are a nice man. I try to be. He is a fraud.. Sadly so. Unfortunately most people involved in the study of the creature are. Makes it so difficult for us Scientist to take the subject serious. Trust me I do. I am holding out for that smoking gun.

Well sadly I have met Smedja. Most feelings about him posted in this thread are my own. I don't know if he really shot any sasquatch, but I can read him well enough to know that he is not very bright, and a fame and glory seeker. Throw in his propensity for poaching and I don't have much good to say about him. What sticks out in my mind when I met him at that conference is his honest surprise that people hate him for what he said he did. He thought he would be universally accepted as some sort of hero. Sure maybe a BF needs to be shot to prove they exist, but if he did shoot one, he completely botched everything he did and all he did was waste sasquatch lives needlessly. Actually if anyone deserves to have their guns taken away, a life long poacher is it in my estimation.

.........His dream quest continued in the modern world. He became a big game hunter, salmon slayer, and became infatuated with finding himself a sasquatch bride. He frequented an internet forum on Bigfoot and became known as the Huntster. He ended up married to a human female who was more than he could handle. He never did find the sasquatch love of his life, and ended up digging a hole in the Knik Glacier in Alaska, jumping in, and pulling the ice shavings in over himself.

Consider this: If these creatures exist, it would be difficult to accept that government hasn't known it for a long time. The Indian Wars ended in the early 1890's, so by that time, the federal government had a really good handle on the legal and cultural difficulties of negotiating with aboriginal peoples, and almost all Indian peoples recognize sasquatches as a race of wild people. The behavior (or, more accurately, the absolute absence of any and all behavior) of both California and federal governments after the filming of the PG event, even unto today, goes so beyond suspicion as to virtually scream out guilt. Both the California and federal government bully their way into every issue imaginable from the amount of water a urinal uses to the inspection of mattresses, yet we are to believe that they care so incompletely about the PG film that neither has ever so much as uttered a peep? Sorry. I lived a full life within government, and I can't accept that possibility. Therefore, I'm forced to believe that not only do they know that they exist, but they have conducted some study, or have closely monitored certain scientists or other appropriate people who have gathered intelligence on these creatures. There's no way they'd simply ignore them without gathering intelligence on them. Thus, if somebody is making headway with these creatures, and if government wants to keep these creatures low key, the researchers might be enticed to conduct their work quietly. A bit of funding and counseling might be proffered. It wouldn't take much to convince capable researchers to keep quiet about their knowledge. Simply reminding what "discovery" might mean to these creatures could be enough for researchers to continue their work quietly. I believe it's very possible that people might be doing the Goodall/Fossey thing with sasquatches as we discuss this, and it might not become public knowledge for another few decades.

Poaching isn't about getting food, despite what poachers will say. It's all about the killing. It's the same instinct that prompts wolves, bears, and cats to chase prey animals that run away. It's the same thing that causes house cats to kill songbirds as often as possible without eating them. Here's an example of just how gross it can be, and how political correctness (more accurately, nativism) can look the other way: https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/article/eight-charged-point-hope-caribou-slaughter/2009/03/17/