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Driftless, a great researcher, is on to something.

The Spectographic analysis does seem to be the way forward for Vocals and Percussive sounds (whatever they may be) these days, to give some kind of validity as to what is actually being heard. David Ellis is well worth a listen on his various podcast interviews if anyone wants to get educated a little more on it.

Yeah, but this is DRIFTLESS!! He guarantees 100% legit content!! While that could be a nice trope, I don't think we'd see hoaxing on his channel, seems like a sincere guy doing honest research.

Hey BRB....good to hear from you:) This poor young buck was nearby, within 20 feet, don't think it was killed there, no drag marks, and a fresh kill. Let me have a bit of 'BF Tunnel Vision' on the deer kill above, I really try to refrain from blaming everything on the hairyman, but this was weird.......the red line shows the spine, and the 90 degree break in the middle of if it, with the blow coming from above, and looks like it took a massive blow or BF judo chop

Just ordered this today... Glock Gen 5 G23. Difficult to find out here and prices online are crazy. Had to order it from a shop in SC and still paid a few bucks over MSRP.

This is how I got started with it, it makes review so much faster and easier. It's truly enjoyable. https://sasquatchbioacoustic.blogspot.com/2011/10/using-audacity-spectrograms-to-review.html I've of course tailored it for my uses over time. For instance, I think I zoom in more than he suggests, necessary to catch more distant or soft sounds. I record overnight, approximately 10 pm to 6 am. This works well for local drops and if I can find likely areas when traveling. Sometimes I will leave a device for multiple days if I need to. I feel that night recording rules out some other wildlife and potential human sounds, and it's when hairy folks are more active. Of course, depending on the area, day time may be as productive. One has to listen to a lot of stuff, there's no way around it. You'll have to learn your areas' typical birds, canids, traffic, etc. Now I can scan files pretty quickly and dismiss a lot, saving just shorter clips. I include approximate time in the metadata area on those. I save by date and possible sound, like whoop or bang, etc. when I can. This thread and Redbone are helpful, too. https://bigfootforums.com/topic/57428-a-place-to-share-audio-files/ Back to topic, cool research video!

It is difficult to share any sort of information between groups, unfortunately. We get constant questions from people with what I consider casual interest in the subject concerning the exact locations that we investigate. I usually give the state as an answer and leave it at that. Most of them will never actually go out into the woods, but enough might that it could pollute the area. If most people's idea of Bigfoot research didn't mainly consist of calls and wood knocks, then it might be different. I have toyed with the idea of trying to establish a network of independent researchers in my region...to share information and ideas. The South doesn't get the same attention as the Pacific Northwest, but there seems to be lots of activity in the mountains from West Virginia on down. However, most of the people who are actually involved in field research are few and far between, as well as seem to already be BFRO members. There is a lot of interest in the area, but most people limit their actual Bigfoot related activities to collecting Bigfoot knickknacks and posting unintelligible comments on Facebook Bigfoot groups. As far as the recording goes, we have been setting up a Zoom H4N Pro in different areas and then leaving it running while we look around. The downside is that we are falling further and further behind on audio review. It's so time consuming.

Good luck, man! Lol. We actually did our first wood knock Saturday night. Not our usual thing, but like you...the area felt like it called for it.

Any answer that I give here would probably be more suited to the political section of the Tar Pit, so I think that I will just see myself out of this thread.

Why not? Anyone who felt uncomfortable about attending due to Covid could just...not attend. There are large gatherings of people that occur daily across the nation. Why not Bigfoot conferences? That's the most politically neutral answer that I could give. Curious to see how this thread progresses