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This is an incredibly valuable resource. Thanks to the FMT for making the proposal to share this with the membership and thanks to the Steering Committee for approving the request. Much appreciated!

You and Madison have been masterful at selecting good areas that are producing. I agree wholeheartedly about not using trailcams in areas that produce. Why take a chance of spoiling a good thing? I'd consider employing trailcams in areas that haven't produced that are along your vehicle route to the good areas. Easy to swap out cards and not take up a lot of time. I never heard of Faraday cloth until you mentioned it some time ago. I think that's a good idea as it can only help. I'll try the same when I re-camo the next time. I've used camo duct tape on the trail cams over which I'd glue the bark. Mine are camo'd using white pine which is prevalent in an area I use them. A new area I found last year has a lot of cedar so I plan on using it on at least one of the trailcams. The duct tape makes it a breeze to remove the whole camo coating and still have the camera plastic pristeen. Now that I'm thinking if it, I might try putting the faraday cloth under the camo duct tape when I do the cedar camo.

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Hi I'm from Germany. I've actually just signed up to look at photos and videos, seems like you guys have a cool collection. There is really nothing more to say, I find the Bigfoot phenomenon curious, saw some videos on youtube of spooky screams in the woods and I'm kinda hooked. Would be cool to get approved so I can check out more content here.

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Agreed and agreed.

I have a hard time trusting myself.

One of these days I am going to deck mine out, similar to the way @wiiawiwbdoes it, with bark on it, but with a Faraday cloth wrap under the bark. I'm just not prepared to go to a good site that seems active and scare them off with a trail cam at this time. I may also have to pick up some of the passive IR sensored lights you speak of, just for camp.

I agree with both of you. Immediately thought Todd Standing wannabe and not quite right in the head as whoever is making these videos continues to do so.

I have my doubts. Passive is just that. The current cameras do not project any sort of beam so there's nothing to be seen. They have a sensor inside that can detect rapid changes in the amount of heat / light they receive across a very small portion of their surface. The only time anything ever projects from them is the flash. Stands to reason that if a BF saw the flash from the camera when a deer tripped it, then the BF might avoid the location of the camera, but the camera itself might as well be a lump of coal. If there's anything, it's the charge on the battery or the smell of the plastic. I doubt those, too, because 50% of cameras not place with thought to air movement are downwind of their target, undetectable by smell, and hopefully all of those placed with thought to air movement are out of the air current where they can be smelled. High pitched buzz / whine .. maybe, but that has been tested with some mighty sensitive detection equipment without any proof of detection. I tried an experiment a couple years ago. I set up a camera w/o batteries in the field of view of another camera, then tripped that camera at night to see what the camo plastic case looks like under I.R. It was a rectangular gray/black box, no sign of any camo. So supposing BF really can see in the infared end of the spectrum .. I would think that trail cams we place and thing are invisible would be rectangular boxes, plain as day, strapped to the tree, to them. Another thing .. observation. Though sometimes critters appear to see the cameras, I'm not convinced. I have thousands of pictures of deer, elk, bear, coyotes, skunks, etc which appear completely oblivious to the camera that is taking their picture. My cameras have a dark red cover over the IR flash and another over the lens. The one over the lens especially will glow blood red if it is hit by strong light from the side. That could be a piece of the detection puzzle.

I'll pass. Sounds like a sensationalized "reality" show like Mountain Monsters where it's all theatrics and little actual substance. The sort of thing that discredits the subject and makes the study a joke. I'm overly judgmental on these things, but this would probably make a "good" double feature with any of Todd Standings rubbish.

This is a repost of my 43 year old sighting- experience. We weren't doing Jack Daniels, dope or shrooms ................................. just dead tired after cutting 4 cords of wood and stacking it in our truck. We did this by hand and and with no gas wood splitter. We were good ol native Oregonian mountain men working in the beautiful forest. I'm still trying to figure what caused me to snap awake, stare into the woods, and look into the face of some unknown animal looking back at us. I don't remember noise or anything but automatic wake up and look. Maybe infrasound? What do you think? It's a good thing there were two of us since I think some bigfoots pick off single warm blooded people in the woods on rare occasions. My friend and I went wood cutting in the Butte Falls area that is North of Medford, Oregon. This was around 1977. Bigfoot was not a consideration for me or my partner, Bill. We cut up fire wood all day until we dropped, and spread out our tarp and plopped our sleeping bags down for a night’s sleep. It was a warm summer night in the open forest with tall trees spread all over. We were on the forest floor that was flat ground with tall fir and hemlock trees with some brush here and there. Something woke me up. I looked across this clearing to this dimly lit, huge fallen log about forty feet away. This hair covered creature is behind the log staring at me. It has no big fuzzy ears like a bear. A Black Bear has a flat head and long snout, and this animal had a cone shaped head and no snout. This animal had broad shoulders much wider than a bear. Only the top one fourth of its body was showing since the log blocked the rest of the view. Having no fear still puzzles me to this day and writing about this event helps. Welcome to the new forum members.