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http://www.world-builders.org/lessons/less/biomes/annutrita.html I estimate that a 800 lbs mammal is going to need roughly 8800 calories per day to maintain its body weight. A 400 lbs silverback gorilla eats roughly 40 lbs of vegetation (plus a small percentage of insect protein) per day. What would the caloric intake of say a family of 5 Sasquatch be per day? Approaching 50k right? Or in vegetation consumed terms it's right about (80 lbs or double gorilla daily intake X 5) 400 lbs per day per family troupe. Thats a lot of veggies. What if the troupe killed a whitetail deer? http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/calories/wild-game-whitetail-deer-venison-328430317 4 oz of meat equals 170 calories, so 1 lbs equals 680 calories. So a 200 lbs deer represents 136000 calories, not counting the loss of bone and or antler weight. 8800 cal X 5 equals 44000 calories. So a average sized deer represents roughly 3 days worth of meals for a family of five. Thats roughly 121 deer per year or 24333 lbs of annual meat consumed. Check my numbers guys..... In the Virunga range trackers follow mountain gorillas around by the swath of vegetational destruction they leave behind. These gorillas are like lawn mowers constantly moving along the mountain side. Family troupes up to 20 all feeding together. They also recieve some protein eating insects. Of course gorillas can forage all year long in Africa. North America is a different story is most regions minus some gulf states and west coast. So if your caching food stores all summer for the winter months? A conservative estimate minus spoilage and increased caloric winter need, would be doubling the daily 400 lbs of vegetation collected to 800 lbs per family. Gorillas spend 60 % of their day simply chewing their food. That doesn't leave a lot of time to sleep, mate, play, teach babes and collect food for winter months for a Bigfoot. Meat must play a heavy role in winter time. But the snow is crunchy, the background is white, the leaves have fallen. Not good ambushing. So they must either store plant material away or hibernate. But Apes don't hibernate that we are aware of. Anyhow just some crunching data in my mind tonight.

Back to the original question. NorthWind and I once investigated a sighting location at a lake camp. A (presumably) old sasquatch with a limp was seen dumpster diving numerous times. I'd guess scavenging, eating roadkill and pets kept outside would be much easier than taking a human. I would bet they have an idea, that if one of us goes missing, multitudes more will show up searching, which bodes ill for them. And, yes, I do think they are that intelligent.

As gun owners? We are all family here and should not be fighting amongst ourselves. Frisco’s statement reminds me of the Kehoe brothers shoot out with Ohio SP. No one was hit. It stands out because the Kehoe brothers were from north of Colville Wa. Brainwashed kids living in the woods. Either way real stress is tough to simulate. I was on the fire dept for 17 years and was a training officer and training certainly helps. But no one and I mean no one actually knows how they are gonna react in a life and death situation until it happens to them. Some get back in the saddle and some don’t.

According to an article I read yesterday the U.S. annual tree harvest is between 3-6 billion trees a year depending on tree density per square mile. That's not board feet mind you. That's an actual whole-tree estimate. Your post sort of underscores the food competition thing. By extension it may also hint at a lower Sasquatch population.

MIB suggested that I chime in on this discussion. I've been busy with various pursuits for the last month or so. But I can now 'chime in'... Clarification on the bones is that yes we did find a single bone with both adult and juvenile teeth impressions on it. Other work we have done in the last year also supports the evidence of small family units. We have seen no evidence of large groups. What we have found also shows that when feeding on the meat of an animal, it is done in the location of the kill site. It has been suggested that there should be a swath showing their feeding behavior. In the case of this kind of feeding on meat, it is scattered and not necessarily easy to find. Just as the case is with any other animal kills. The thing is, if bigfoot exists, it has existed in the ecosystem for millenia. Most agree that it is an omnivore. So when we look for that so called swath of feeding behavior how do we know whether it was chipmunks, bears, coyotes or bigfoot that cleaned out that field of huckleberries. What turned all those rocks over looking for insects? Or tore apart those logs and stumps that you find throughout the forest? What browsed all the leaves off the salmonberries and blackberries along that forest edge? Elk, deer, rabbits or just maybe bigfoot? We have found evidence that they feed on larger animals. The argument here is not whether they killed them, although the possibility exists, because we have also found evidence of confiscation of cougar kills. It also appears to be seasonal, late winter and early spring; the lean times in the forest. Just as the aforementioned seasonal feeding of bears on moths. So their diet varies over the year. Some may think there are few animal kills in the forest. In one 30 acre clearcut we found 2 dead elk, a cow and later a calf, in one week's period of time. Both fresh kills. The cow was feed on by 2 bears and went from a whole elk to a pile of bones in three days. Nothing goes to waste in the wild. Within a mile of there was another fresh kill although I couldn't find that one. It was definitely there. The point is the evidence is there but are we able to differentiate and interpret what did it?

WELCOME TO THE FORUM AND MELLOW OUT........WE CAN ACCEPT YOU THEN. WE ARE BIGFOOTERS SO LIGHTEN UP ON THE POLICE AND ATTORNEY EXPERIENCE.And? What's your point? If you read what I wrote, you would also see that I LEOs in my statement. I speak from experience as a 27 year police veteran and actual shooter with over 30 years in USPSA, IDPA, ISPC, 3Gun, and PPC. Armorer, custom gun builder and trainer at not one, but two academies. So, I am not speaking from inexperience or ignorance. BUT YOU ARE TURNING OFF YOUR AUDIENCE BY BEING OVER BERING.........SETTLE DOWN AND WE WILL LISTEN TO YOUR KNOWLEDGE. GET SOME LORAZAPAMS BY PERSCRIPTION. Yay, you got to put your two cents in. Add another five bucks and you can get yourself a latte...but the fact remains that the extreme vast majority of gun owners are woefully ignorant of their safe handling, let alone competent to mount a defense in a dynamic critical incident. AGREED I am 110% PRO 2A and don't even believe any state or municipality has the authority to regulate ownership or carry...in a free society the burden lies on the citizen, but the fact remains that people simply make the choice NOT to get training, choose NOT to practice what they learned in training, and make the choice NOT to gain any level of competence. THE AVERAGE PERSON SHOULD BE PROFICIENT WITH A 38 REVOLVER TO PROTECT THE HOME. I WENT THROUGH MARINE CORPS TRAINING BY RETURNING BY COMBAT HARDENED MARINES. REWRITE THIS PARAGRAPH IN A LESS CONDENSENDING MANNER. How many post critical incident videos have you had to professionally evaluate for either prosecution or defense? How many dynamic critical incidents have YOU been involved in? RATHER THAN PUTTING THE MAN DOWN........................... TELL US OF THE "DYNAMIC CRITICAL INCIDENTS" THAT YOU HAVE BEEN IN. WE CAN ALL LEARN THEN. How many times have you had to sit through tens of dozens of hours of post critical incident testimony or deposition? How many times have you sat in a courtroom as an expert witness, or as a consulting attorney for other attorneys in self defense cases? GIVE EXAMPLES And finally, how many books have YOU written on self defense law, techniques, and post critical incident survival that have been court recognized and accepted? (For me, so far it's TWO of those). How many CLEs (Continuing Legal Education) have YOU written and delivered to other attorneys after you retired from LE and went to law school? (For me....nearly a dozen written with ten times that delivered). So yay....you ran a gun shop. Good goobledy goo for you, but don't pretend doing your chicken dance from behind a retail counter and not on the range or in a courtroom and dropping a faux anecdote about poorly maintained weapons coming from LEOs is anything less than mouth waddling because of personal hubris.YOU HAVE TAUGHT LITTLE TO THOSE WHO NEED TO KNOW. THANKS FOR TRYING, MELLOW OUT, AND WHILE STEPPING WATCH FOR TOES.