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Is Bigfoot real? Idaho State professor searches for Sasquatch (msn.com) A nice article about Jeffrey Meldrum and how he got started researching sasquatch.

You beat me to it.

If it looks like a chimp, walks like a chimp, has long forearms like a chimp, and is the size of a chimp, it might be a...............bear...........

His logic is flawed. No footage will ever convince science.

Having been a taxidermist in a previous life, I do know what I am looking at. You make a good point.

What is there to analyze? A blurry picture without any meta data or context behind it. In all probability it is someone in a costume trying to walk like he would think a werewolf might walk. Here is what I see: - The texture on the legs is different that the top. Kind of looks like skinny pants but with a thigh bone that extends well beyond where you would expect the hip and waist to be. - The leg angles seem really funky. If it is a human it would definitely be an awkward position with head/body forward but legs kind of backwards. - The left arm seem to extend almost to the knee which is outside of human norms. - There is something in his left hand which kind of reminds me of a beer bottle if held with an overhand grip like you are about to launch it. - If it is a 10ft fence the thing looks to be roughly 6" in height but you really cannot tell due to angles and lack of reference. - The long pony tail almost looks like there is a child on its back. If you squint hard enough you can see an arm and a head but who knows. Thats what I see. Any other thoughts?

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3 round magazine for the magnum calibers, 4 for the slimmer standard ones. I jack 1 round in and carry with the hammer at 1/2 **** and the unique hammer safety on, and 3 in the mag. I've never seen any reference to an extended mag for these.

Obviously not impossible since it is a bear.

@cmknight Priorities, brother, priorities. My dad was colour party for decades. The main road was in good shape, as they were doing some major repair work further in. There were a few sections where we were driving over obvious recent repairs, some of them 100m long. Last Nov. storms knocked out many FSRs. @DrPSH Thanks, these outings make wonderful family memories. @Grubfingers Your 45-70 is great, it's a major knock 'em down device. My bear stopper is a BLR in 300WSM, with a drop out mag, as opposed to the tube mag of most lever guns. It's also 3 lbs lighter and 4" shorter than my previous A-Bolt in 300 WM, so much easier for my aging body to haul through the bush. @norseman & @Incorrigible1 Yes, and wow, quite an accomplishment. I considered the 45-70 before I got the 300WSM, but I preferred the short action and lighter weight.

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Please pass the sugar. It helps alleviate the bitterness. Thank you!

I think you've made the top choice of everything available. That historic old cartridge in a lever repeater ought to be good medicine.

Sometimes it's hard to tell what you're looking at...if you don't know what you're looking at

Hi BFF folks. I live in the US in the state of Maine. Had an odd encounter years ago deep in the Maine woods that's hard to explain with normal experiences. I'm interested in the current research and activity going on in this area.

After 2 rainy, wet weekends in a row, we finally got some sunshine! I talked my son and his girlfriend into joining me for a bear/cougar/sasquatch outing for the day, to a location a bit further afield than my usual day trips. They were both eager to get out too, so we headed out at about 9 Saturday morning, for a 2 hour drive to the mountains a little SE of Boston Bar, in the Fraser Canyon region. The FSR system I targeted crosses the mountain range between the Canyon Hwy and the Coquihalla Hwy, and I had driven the route last fall, just before the snow got too deep to get through the pass. When we reached the turnoff to the FSR, there was a sign posted stating that the heavy storms had cut the road, making the full crossing impossible, but we headed up anyway, to see how far we could get. That turned out to be about 12 km in, where there was a locked gate to keep the public out of the work area. Since we had passed numerous side branches on the way in, we back tracked and explored several of them, leading to some interesting views, and lots of game sign. There was deer, bear, and elk scat, deer and elk tracks, and one pretty mulie doe who posed for us in the middle of the road. One power line trail led to a dead end at a very rugged cliff above a creek far below. After a late lunch in camp chairs in the sunshine and warm breeze, we called it a day, as the drive back out to pavement, and then 2 hours home would get us back in time for a late dinner. The trip totalled 320 km (186 mi), and used up $100 of our $2.10/L gas, but the scenery and family time were well worth it.

Nice to see an article on Sasquatch where they are not poking fun at the subject. The wilderness goat trekker sighting in Colorado is one of the eye-openers for sure. There are some private sighting reports I have heard from sheep herders in Southwest Wyoming too that confirm they are there. The conundrum is between the biological aspect of the evidence on Sasquatch and the many details of sightings that definitely fall into another category of belief, come science or high water. Meldrum's sighting report enclosed in that article was from the Standing appropriated research area near Kamloops from what I understand (a member taxidermist detailed some of the hijinks regarding that unfortunate misappropriation in some thread/post here and elsewhere on taxidermy forums IIRC).

My friend and I were out snooping around a possible new area today. We found an interesting impression in the duff. A tree stuck upside down in a rock outcropping, and some very large bear scat. The outcropping was on a very steep slope and quite large. The root end was inside the rocks, and there wasn’t any evidence of a stump above it. I forgot a couple pics.

Has that tree in the background been measured? I am willing to bet that the base of that tree is not that large. I am also willing to to bet that this bear is not a younger cub, but an older cub. Just by looking at that base of that tree. It must not be that big of a bear. That is why it looks so skinny. The angle also makes it look strange, like we are looking at a chimp. Sure! it fooled me at first. But it is a bear. But this is my opinion. We can all look at this picture and we will all see something different. Some of us will agree and some of us will disagree. But it all comes down to how we look at the photo. I just happen to see a bear. small bear001

My wife and I just finished watching it. I had seen the trailer here earlier this morning but did not read the entire thread. When we got to the end of the movie and saw the obvious hoax...smh...why!? It was a really good doc/movie up until the end, it made my wife mad when she saw the costume. She said "Makes you question if everything else that was told is fake too."

"Right turn, Clyde."

Eyewitnesses pegged these two as the drivers ...

Perhaps a member of the "furry" fetish community looking to...uh...commune with nature?

Much better photo than the mangy bear one.

He was putting his professional reputation on the line at a time when colleagues thought, and may still think, a bigfoot was nothing more than legend.

Hi, my name is Anita and I'm the founder of Ohio Valley Region Bigfoot Research, based in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. We research and investigate Bigfoot sightings in and around the OVR.

I like how the camera points straight ahead until they get to the creature…🙄

You've piqued my curiosity. Are you here for any more than to mock and sneer?

Great so no real analysis. This place has become a bunch of bitter crazies.

@MegWhiteSo, are you saying that this figure could just be steam? No, there is something solid there. Just not sure what it could be. What made someone to look at the camera to catch this figure in the first place. If you two want to argue your point, then take it to PM and leave this thread alone. Do not make this a personal issue between you two.

The real sadness here is that you care about your reputation on a site dedicated to a mythical creature.