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I was picturing a Bigfoot with a .44 Smith and Wesson sayin “Go ahead punk.....make my day!”

Another possibility is that there are some very knowledgeable outdoorsman here that like to ask educated questions.

It will be easy to keep your ESEE knife sharpened with the right equipment at home. It's more of a challenge to keep it sharp in the field. When you stay over in the woods, it is easy to lose the razor's edge as you create a feather stick, chop or baton wood. I bring a leather strop when I'm in the woods. I have two strops with leather on each side and use four different compounds. The simple truth is I use two compounds (green and red) on one strop most of the time and the other strop (black and white compounds) used when the edge starts to lose it sharpness from continual hard use. You may want to take a look at a leather strop as you can keep a razor edge on it while out in the field. The strop is very light as well so you're carrying very little weight. This is the one that I bought years ago. The owner, The Strop Man, passed away but friends of his now own the business and keep up his good work. https://stropman.com/main.sc

I agree not supermen but not a typical 4 legged animal . They would develop techniques and strategies geared towards human hunters . In my humble opinion I don't think they do that now. I still think the best chance of killing one and recovering a body is just the will to squeeze the trigger . Put me in an active location on top of a large custom made tree house 50 feet high and mount a $20,000 thermal on my .50 If they are there . Chances are better than average you will get a shot at one . I wasn't saying they would finance the hunt for hunters here but If the word on the blackmarket is millions for body parts there will be U.S based hunters who will spend many tens of thousands for equipment and gear but as I said once they know they are being hunted all bets are off on how they would react. My guess is they vanish even more than they do now.

They are not listed with an open season, and so you may not hunt them. If you do, you have taken that animal out of season, which is a violation, and possibly a felony. Obviously so.

Ever hunt tigers? Cougars? Gigantopithecus? Yet their "parts" are for sale in Hong Kong as aphrodisiacs. And tigers are endangered. Big time. Gigantopithecus are extinct.......or so they say. Madison and NorthWind have re-taught me that one can pretty confidently go out and find footprints.

Vigilantism? Like Charles Bronson in Death Wish?

@trapper I think you are assuming that Humans will never themselves progress to a cognitive level that would allow for more understanding of the workings of things like our Universe. I mean, I can somewhat agree with your statement regarding "limitations of our present scientific level of advancement and its possible permanence". Somewhat. And what I'm going to say needs to be couched in more or less evolution: Genes mutate. It's what they do. It was gene mutation that separated hominids from Chimpanzees by creating copies of the NOTCH2NL gene which gave hominids increasing brain size and cognitive powers. It is those very genes that have gotten us scientifically to where we are today, which I think is fairly significant considering what we have accomplished technologically. But that isn't the whole story. Again, gees mutate, which means Nature isn't finished with us yet. Sometimes genes mutate through environmental forcing and I think science is part of that forcing dynamic. So. We're not done. This isn't the end of the line for Human brain power. Because the NOTCH2NL brain gene variations that we have may go on to create a situation where we create progenitor cells faster and in more abundance that we do now during fetal development. The ability to create more progenitor cells is what allowed Humans, in turn, to create more neurons. This increased progenitor cell process that Humans have is how we left the Great Apes way behind in the area of bigger brains and higher cognitive thinking. Having said that, I see no reason for Humans to not get even higher up the ladder in those things where we develop a deeper understanding of the natural world's physics and beyond. Humans have produced geniuses: Archimedes, Galileo, Newton, Einstein, Tesla, Nash, and many others. It may happen that geniuses become the norm. I think we have many more now but most of them get chewed up in the machine and never get an opportunity to reach their potential. Who is to say how far we'll go (or not go) as a species.

More hiking and pics to share:) Bigfoot's pool - nice deep pool all hidden away A Coral Snake Nice BF print with toes And the last 3 - more Sotol leaves as found discarded on the trails