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Woo maybe. Or reading your body language. Probably the latter IMHO. I am told that people learn to do that in prison as a way of identifying, when they are out again, who is a safe victim and who should be bypassed. No real reason to think sasquatches would not learn to do the same with people, I think they spend a lot more time watching us than we do watching them. Whether the presence of the gun is an issue for them depends on the person and I think they can read that, too, in the level of concern, level of bluster we show. It is one thing to say "I am not afraid" as a form of whistling past the graveyard, it is another to actually not be afraid. Guns are not dangerous. Scared humans with guns are dangerous. I believe they may be more cautious in their approach, but so long as a person is not panicky, not freaking out, they will approach tentatively, gun or not. It is the only explanation I can come up with for several approaches I've had while I was hunting with a shiny stainless steel rifle in my hand. I pack a gun in the woods .. always. It's a matter of .. something approaching religion. MIB

I like Les too. Have seen him in person. I think he has already had contact with bigfoot and possibly it has scared him. His solo video stuff might work well with most things but could get himself killed if he blunders into the wrong BF. Just the fact he has a a camera running a lot likely ticks off some of them. I think the only thing that even approaches some sort of equivalency for a solo person is carrying a gun. While it may not be a complete deterrence to aggression by BF, I think they are aware when we are carrying guns and probably changes the interaction dynamic to some degree. Who really knows but it might have saved some people from going missing. But like with a cougar, anything quiet enough can get you if it attacks from behind.

I respect your decision to not go armed, but never having an issue to date doesn't mean that an issue couldn't happen in the future. You never know who you are going to run into miles away from civilisation... Sasquatch is the least of my worries. Appalachian Trail Murders

I"ve never packed a gun in the woods, never had an issue to date but I"m guessing I am not nearly as remote as some of you may be. I've also never had more than the one possible BF experience in my life. A knife has always been all I carry if anything.

I think that he is referring to long arms. The idea that they can recognize firearms has been floated before...and I think that the idea has merit. Given their behavior around trail and security cameras, it is a pretty safe bet that they can identify at least some of our tools. At least the ones that they should be wary of... Like you, even if it decreases my chances of activity, I don't go into the woods unarmed for the reasons you listed.

But if one carries a pistol with it concealed by a jacket or shirt or something, how would they know? Woo? I'll take my chances carrying. I don't want to run into a cougar or bear or tweaker with a bad attitude and not have a way to adjust it.

There is a bit of extra disappointment with this show since initial appearances seemed to address a lot of the problems we all saw with FB. Apply some data analytics, stay in a place for a while, utilize some new and novel approaches. Alas, all BS.

What could be cool would be someone on the Forum who could make some small portable units and sell them on the BFF? Just designate the models of the recorders and mics the dishes are set up for. Members could then purchase those items on their own and just install them. Or, just get these for about 8 bucks: https://www.caufields.com/jumborubberears.aspx

Flocks of birds show because the signal return does not have clutter from a background. A radar return from shoreline shows hard terrain instead of meat sacks. Even if the radar could discriminate between terrain and meat/lungs the signal would be buried in the return for the 'harder' target. I guess that very high cost military systems may have the capability to detect meat sacks. Civilian radars operate in the X and S bands if someone wants to research further. On a similar note, 'fish finders' work in a similar manner. The sound beam reflects off of the air bladder differently than the meat. Aspect ratio is everything: sound beam hitting the fish longways or sideways. 'Sideways aspect' is the strongest return. Fish without air bladders are difficult to impossible to detect. History buffs can look up English developments as in the 1st radar on H.M.S. Hood and fathometers in the work called A.S.D.I.C. Unfortunately, the 1st verified radar target that the H.M.S. Hood detected was the Bismarck.

A 'boat' radar will damage your eyes. The antenna can rotate in 'stand by mode' and not transmit though. When close to a waterfront area, do not look at the antenna housings. You can't tell if some goof ball has the radar on scan. Small boat radars can detect large, dense flocks of birds. Weather impacts performance. Microwaves are dangerous.

CW is continous wave. I think it mostly is used around military installations to detect human movement (think Area 51) You beam a radar signal at a section of forest. Most will be adsorbed, some reflected, and you watch a graffics trace of what gets back to you. Stationary objects would be just stationary postitive segments of the wave form. A moving bigfoot would appear as a return that moves across the trace. That could be computer processed to not show stationary objects. If transmitter is below a certain wattage then it would not need to be licensed. Above that it would. Without experimentation I am not sure how strong it would need to be to get a usable range. Certainly off the shelf surveillance gear would work but the cost would be prohibitive for most. Not sure if a boat radar would show a soft return like a biological entity. I think CW radars operate in the lower frequency, longer wavelength bands. You don't want to microwave cook what you are looking for. Longer wavelengths are not as damaging. That is how the microwave oven was invented. Engineers developing radar during WW II got burned sticking their hands in front of radar antennas. Soon they learned they could heat up their lunches. A laser could be used in the same way. That would avoid FCC license issues. It might blind a bigfoot that stares at it.

Your post reminded me of my first experience with my big dish. I listened to leaves fluttering all the way across my property and bee buzzing around on a flower. Then it sounded like I was being buzzed by a World War II fighter. I literally ripped off the head phones and looked around. A humming bird had flown by in front of the dish about 20 yards away.