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Sell a kidney and get a Pulsar. $3k. Phenomenal, crystal clear night vision views. NorthWind has one and I'm terminally jealous and just glad that he lets me use it It's worth more than my truck, LOL! My FLIR pales in comparison. However, it's vastly better than nothing and thermal imaging at night gives you great peace of mind! We saw two sasquatch at night on the FLIR in 2020 and it was clear what we were seeing but not by much on the video. It would have been outstanding footage on the Pulsar (which he got after the fact). If I ever have money again, I'll get the thermal that @@BlackRockBigfoot suggested. You can see them use it on their site, Hellbent Holler, and it seems sufficient to the task.

There is a .. pattern. I apologize if I get snippy but I've been down this same path so many times .. it is tiring. Noobs to the subject come in, find something THEY have not seen before, and present it as if it were brand new to an audience who has seen that same thing a dozen times or more, presented by previous noobs who were just as excited thinking that they'd found the answer .. and .. it wears. I want to see new stuff but I don't want to see the same old garbage dug back up, polished slightly, and presented as if it were new .. 'cause it isn't. I do not want to discourage you or dampen your enthusiasm. Just .. don't be shocked if what you think is new has been recycled a half dozen times and everyone but you knows it. Take time .. curb enthusiasm long enough to investigate. It's like .. there are a number of clearly, and "proven-ly", hoaxed pictures that crop up over and over every few years as people who have not taken time to do due diligence get suckered by them and in turn try to sucker others in the same way. It has been a long time since anything truly new has been presented. There are a lot of repetitions, re-occurrences of old patterns, but nothing groundbreaking. The "nests" seemed promising but seemingly nothing has come of them. Ketchum's DNA project turned out to be a bust at best, hoax at worst, but in either case, invalid. And so on. I tell you as honestly as I can, if I were an outsider and if I had not seen 2 myself over the years, I'd think the BF community was bat "guano" crazy, the whole thing was a farce, and I'd stay as far from it as I could. But .. things happen in the woods that don't add up to conventional explanations so the search continues.

If it came from her it is a lie. The rest is just .. details. My old research partner / sort of mentor in this bigfoot stuff lived fairly near where LNP lived .. and interacted with her much to my friend's displeasure. While I never met LNP myself, I learned enough and had opportunities to validate what I learned. I also independently investigated the Sru Lake "account" from LNP and, feet on the ground, found it to be pure, uncut, bull excrement. I would not waste my time on a single word she said. You can do whatever you want, of course, but IMHO life is too short to waste on her delusional drivel. If you want to look into researchers in that general area, Barbara Butler aka Barbara Wassam has proven pretty interesting. I have 2 books from her, one written under each name, and an unfinished manuscript of a book she was writing via her daughter. One of her sometimes-contributors / collaborators, Jack Woodruff, also contributed material to George Haas' "Bigfoot Bulletin" .. worth reading. Thinking of that, I 'spect there is a Ray Crowe connection .. you know, published everything that came to him but recommended "keep your skepticals on." Some of that early stuff from SW Oregon is pretty darn interesting and many of the places are still there to be viewed / reviewed to see if the accounts make sense. MIB

Spot on, FLIR has had major issues for repair service since they have been sold to Teledyne. The best companies are Pulsar and AGM at this time regarding ease of use, resolution and storage factors. The majority of AGM units can be bus-powered off a power bank for 5 hours ( on-board memory ) for overnight use. I highly recommend Pulsar for a higher grade unit, they are sturdy and have great sensitivity along with accurate battery life at 8 or 16 hour use. The customer support is great also, no complaints from my experience.