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I don't expect it's in your plans then to go straight to a law enforcement agency with your ugh...."specimen" right? I mean, why have any contingency for losing it to some "higher authority" if there's zero chance that it's not an animal? So long as it's not proven to exist, there is no crime right? It's not about feelings Norse, I really wish you could get past the petty attacks on the no-kill mindset and start to understand the mechanism that keeps bigfoot unproven. It's not because people haven't ever shot at one or that they've never been hit by a vehicle. You can't have it both ways either, if they are where they are reported, there's more than enough of them to have fallen in our laps by now, so just because those who see them as human-like enough to not shoot, haven't brought you a specimen, it's definitely not on their hands that it's not proven today. It's either because they present too many problems in the process of aknowledgement listing and protecting them and their environment, or they are paranormal entities that shouldn't be dealt with as wildlife to start with.

All this "it looks like an ape" and "it looks like a human" is very, very subjective. One mans black is another mans white don't forget and witness descriptions of these things are inconsistent to say the least. For many people, their mind is biased towards saying "man" for it being upright ( human only characteristic ), and "ape" because of all the hair ( non human primate characteristic ). Truth is, like me, the vast majority of witnesses to these things have no real qualification to say definitively what they they saw when talking about this subject. I looked in to the eyes of one for an eternity 20 years or so back now unobstructed in broad daylight and in all honesty, I couldn't tell you if it was a man or more closer a non human primate after driving myself crazy thinking about it for all that time, to me it looked like both and looked somewhere in between maybe, that's the best I can come up with. Neither full human or full any other species of great ape that is known anyway. It had very human characteristics within its facial make up and structure, but not fully human. It had other great ape characteristics nap out it too, but not fully anything I had ever seen before.

No you don't. You don't even know how the next five minutes will transpire from right now! You can guess, but you don't KNOW. You certainly don't know how the future will transpire after you see a BF. I hope you see one, so you can come back & tell us all about it. It won't be like you think.

Your right BobbyO, it's subjective. Which is why we need proof. If the anti kill crowd had Real DNA evidence to establish this species? There would be no need to kill one. Agree 2000 percent!!!!

PersonallyI don't have any respect for a hunter that wounds an animal and doesn't do everything humanly possible to recover it. This goes double for someone that wounds dangerous game, and exposes others to danger

I don't think anyone has it all figured out. Some are simply more experienced than others. Jane Goodall lived with chimps, is/was an expert on them, and we're still learning things about them. Each level of knowledge simply reveals and provides access to a deeper level of questions. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss, though, the possibility that someone can have repeated encounters with bigfoot. If, for example, you live along a migratory route through arid country and right on top of one of the few potable water sources surrounded by better vegetation and an assortment of small prey (essentially an oasis), you're more likely to encounter them on a seasonal basis. If you camp in dozens of places in the Sierras over the years and find one particularly isolated beautiful spot that you go back to time and again, don't be surprised if they favor it for the same reasons you do (isolation, food sources, water sources, fish, etc), and don't be surprised if they interact with you repeatedly. But these are happenstance. Could a person go further and develop an understanding that locations like those above improve his/her chances of encountering and interacting with them? Why not? It is essentially the scientific method. If it pans out there's no reason why that individual shouldn't be able to develop the opportunity to gain more knowledge if they can more regularly put themselves in the same time and space as a group of bigfoot.

I reached a point where the more I experienced, the more questions I had trying to fully digest what just happened out there. You reason out things in your head as to what they are and what they are not, then something happens way out of the box and blows your theory right out of the water! I mean personal experiences in remote places-just you and woods! Experiences that are insulated from the public jokers and deceitful charlatans. I don't claim to be an expert-never will-only a witness that knows much more is going on out there than just some dumb monkey running around! Call it opinion if you want to, I call it personal experiences...

I would think that all it takes to shift from a believer to a knower is one unquestionable encounter with one of the big furries.... As a believer, they would probably have a number of theories as to what they might be/do, and upon actually observing one or more of the creatures some theories will most likely fall away in favor of those that are supported by what the individual saw. Through the elimination of theories and hypothesis that dont effectively address the observed phenomena, one is left with various explinations of various aspects that form a framework of interpretation which will at least imply further probable conclusions extrapolated from the event, as well as from the reports of others having had similar sightings with parallel elements involved. So its easy to imagine how a person might become an "overnight expert" following a sighting. But, of course, their "expertise" may well be limited to that specific region, and that particular creature, or group of creatures. There doesnt need to be a body on a slab, or live specimen in captivity in order for an individual to have some or even extensive. knowledge of these creatures, through sighting events, habituation contexts, interspecies interactions, and communications with others who have also experienced such phenomena. Should we choose to wait until these beings are officially recognized and acknowledged to further the inquiry, we will find ourselves woefully behind those who moved foreward with the certainty granted by their contact with these creatures that as of yet dont exist...