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If I had the time, money, and editing skills, putting together a BFF reality show would be an instant winner. There are at least 10 quality field researchers here to pull together a rotating series of plots. The trick is turning hundreds of hours of footage into stories an audience would find interesting.

Are you saying that 98% of the country has been logged many times over and that any undiscovered species would have been found, as if it were all logged in an instant? Taking N Maine for instance, where I like to tromp around. It's by no means an ecological wilderness but by "civilization" or population standards it is. There is one patch of 5000 acres that has never been logged, virgin forest. Outside of that, miniscule amounts in 5000 sq miles, 3.5 million acres of that owned by a private timber consortium. Take a look at guggle sat, old logging roads a-plenty but about as near to wilderness as one can get on the E coast and most of the US. There will be a hunting camp here and there, most times of the year unoccupied. I've been up there for 3-4 day stints, driven hundreds of miles on old logging spurs and not seen another human. When I bushwhack in a few miles off of an old spur, I'm sure I'm not the only critter who feels it's in "the wilderness"

https://www.thewrap.com/finding-bigfoot-the-search-continues-discovery-plus-video/ Well, the guys from Finding Bigfoot are back to make BF TV great again lol. I know a lot of people have their issues with BF TV but this was one of the best times ive had in years. Getting to go out on the overnight, in my research area, with the crew was amazing. I dont know about the other 2 locations they visit on the show but i know mine was red hot that night. I never go in guns blazing, im a passive observer in this area, but having the crew doing their quick and dirty methods to initiate responses paid off that night. Go check it out on Discovery+ FEB 8th.

Apologies to Johnny Lee, but it seems I was looking for Squatch in all the wrong places. I was lookin' for Squatch in all the wrong places Lookin' for Squatch in too many faces Searchin' their eyes, lookin' for traces Of what I'm dreamin' of Hopin' to find a primate and a hominid I'll bless the day I discover, Another Squatch- lookin' for love.

There's that old bit 'o advice that when one finds themselves in a hole, to stop digging. YMMV

I live in Kettle Falls on a ranch. I own chainsaws and sell saw logs to Boise Cascade. I’ve hauled wood chips to Paper mills all around the PacNW. I’ve skidded logs with a 1956 D47U. I own a 160 Kobelco with a mulching head. What would you like to know about logging? So your abandoning your position that anything over 5 lbs would have been eradicated because of logging over the last 200 years? Its your position. You flesh it out. Why can’t Bigfoot exist because very little virgin forest remains in America? Why does the Grizzly Bear still exist? Moose? Elk? Deer? Etc?

If I can make the distinction between a whitetail deer and a mule deer? I think making the distinction between a 8 ft tall Bigfoot covered in hair versus a 5’9” human covered in clothes is kinda trivial don’t yah think?

The real issue is these idiots are actually going down the road of encouraging people to shoot at something on two legs....don't ya think?

Harvest it on a bear tag and bring it in claiming you shot a bear and see what happens. Or prop it up on the front porch and if anyone asks tell them tell them it's a replica you purchased from Ken Walker. Ken might even back you up on that. Then claim a defect in the product and ship it "back" to Ken for repair. He'll know what to do and take it from there.

He knows more about ancient bipedal locomotion than you and I do x1000. Which would tie in directly to a large unknown bipedal primate, yes? Meldrum has discredited himself to science because he has taken the subject seriously and found substance to it. Which. Is. Science. Of course whenever he is wrong about something? The critics point it out excitedly. Louis Leakey and Calico Hills ring a bell? Where Meldrum and I part ways is in collecting a type specimen. But in all fairness I have never seen one let alone had it lined up in my sights. So I guess that leaves Meldrum to study foot casts. I just wish the community would get more proactive about it. That is if you believe there is anything out there to collect.

But if it's primate DNA but when compared to known genomes in the GenBank of Humans and/or Great Apes and there are no matches then it must be saying something. I've been saying as much all along. Primate DNA is primate DNA after all. And since there is all kinds of primate DNA for comparison, those are the baselines. No matches mean new species and if that occurs in North America then.....BINGO! The trick to the whole thing lies in what part of a genome gets targeted? If one is looking for Human specific genes and they aren't present in the sample then.......

That first sample of DNA that is going to be explained away as contaminated human DNA? Any such sample will be trotted out as evidence by people who already believe and dismissed by everyone else. I agree that no one has this figured out, but DNA samples without an accompanying body are not going to prove anything to anyone.

Sorry, I hadn't noticed the question before. Nice rifle. "I approve." (That means I have one, too. :)) I didn't really like the textured stock so I ordered mine with the gray/green solid colored stock. Those have about been phased out. What caliber? I went with .308 .. would rather have had a 7mm-08 but that wasn't available with the stock I wanted. Looks like you went with Talley ringmounts? Best option out there IMHO .. when you go with a truly UL rifle adding heavy steel base 'n' rings doesn't make much sense. What did you choose for a scope? Leupold, I can see that much. For a sling, I have an old Uncle Mike's nylon sling which has a fairly wide pad, maybe 1.5-2 inches, but not very thick so it is not heavy, and it has a rubber strip up the inside which keeps it from sliding off my shoulder. It comes from far in my past. Some time back there I sewed some of the straps so they don't adjust (including coming loose and falling off dropping the rifle) except at the base of the shoulder pad piece. Here's mine. You'll notice I removed the brake and installed the thread protector. Optics .. Leupold 2.5-8X, B&C. Though Kimber probably offers the best factory trigger in the biz, I could not tune the last irregularity out of this one so I got a replacement from TriggerTech. I backed the pull weight clear down, then turned it in 4 clicks. Probably 28 ounces? Very workable ... very predictable. MIB PS: The pack is another new toy ... The North Face "Recon". So far the best day pack I've found for BF "research". It's got enough organization to keep stuff, well, organized. Particularly nice when I'm doing audio recording as I hike.

That first sample of proven dna that would be compared against going forward.

What a great read. Very interesting!

I hope it works out for you. A buddy of mine, the one who told me about them, used it while still hunting in the thick forest. He had it slung so that it was across his chest as if he was holding it in preparation for a quick shot. The sling helped to take some of the weight off his arms. In the thicker stuff, you want to keep movement to a minimum, so holding your rifle so that you only have to raise it to your cheek is what you want. Shots are close.

Ken Walker in AB, Canada has said that he will take it. If crossing the border is an issue, he may have a reccomendation. Other possibilities are Cliff Barackman in the U.S. and Doug Haijcek. I would even call the B.F.R.O.

It's one of my many talents. I do that to me, too.

There are only 10 entries in the SSR of Sasquatch 12 feet or more, one of which was just added a few minutes ago. Two of them are from the same general location in Alberta. Only 4 of the 10 entries show a height of 13 feet or taller. The tallest report is 16 feet, and it's always been my opinion that it is an exaggeration, made by kids in Ohio. (link) I first reported that my own sighting was of a sasquatch 10 feet tall. After further investigation, I changed it to 9 feet. I only saw an arm as it ducked away, and the top of that arm was at about 8' 4". It was my own experience that showed me how difficult it really is to determine height. You need to have something to compare to, like a tree branch, to get it right.

I'd suggest to you that very few "researchers" are no more than a couple of miles from the vehicle they drove to the "remote" wilderness research site. The fact that more reports come in from very unremote sites is a pretty good indication of what your dealing with.

Sorry to upset you, gotta a little a Bromance going for Meldrum there do ya? There's nothing to indicate anything like Bigfoot has ever existed, until then its all fun and games, and we are all experts on this imaginary creature. That's the whole purpose of this site....we're all right/experts until that big day comes!!

I'd suggest you do a little research on the timber industry in the US, over the past 200 years. I found it to be a real eye opener as to the issue of what's remote and how any creature over 5lbs could remain undiscovered in the US.

MEH....your the expert

Where did I say it was all logged at one time........maybe you should do a little research on the logging industry in the US, then maybe we could have a discussion after that. No we are not talking about Orangutans, do you want to talk about Orangutans, your kinda all over the place and we're definitely off topic. I would think the ramifications of nearly the whole continental US being logged multiple times would be obvious, as it relates to any undiscovered species.

No.......until you have a foot, we're all experts on Bigfeets IMO. Meldrum has discredited himself so many times its sad really.

UH HUH sure you have, I believe everything I read on the internet.