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Yowie as above stated several have been shot and a lot have been "drawn down" on and the people decided not to shoot. A hunter here in my state was in that position. He was a State trooper out hunting and never even pointed the gun at the Sasquatch and stated that it was to human looking. You have already figured out the gun ownership is a touchy subject. If you get your info from mainstream media in the US then there probably is nothing to talk about because you have fallen for the propaganda. They keep trying to ban what they call "assault" weapons. The semiautomatic "assault weapon" (fully auto is illegal without the right permit and very few are given) is classed as a rifle in the FBI tracking of shootings. Rifles are second up from the bottom (above shotguns) for number of people killed. On average there are almost 2 times the people killed with knives, 2 times the number of people killed with blunt objects (hammer, ballbat), almost 3 times the number of people killed each year using no weapon other than hands, feet, pushing. now the most people in at almost 30 times the number killed with rifles are killed with handguns! Why is the government trying to get rid of the "assault" weapon because if you had one of them it would not be near as easy to take you in a tactical assault type of situation. They should be going after what kills almost 16 times as many Americans every year than all murders combined and that is medical malpractice at 225,000 per year. I would feel less afraid of running into gun owner than I am going to the doctor.

This isn't the most welcoming place on the internet for "habbers". I know of several that have come & gone without ever fessing up to being one. A few others that did admit their affliction were banned or just left in disgust. We have to be stubborn to stay.

Thanks, David NC. I've owned two fully automatic firearms, a Thompson M1A1 "Tommy-Gun," and a shorty M16. I no longer own these firearms, but was legally licensed to own them. I was finger-printed in triplicate, had my county sheriff sign off on my ownership, and paid a $200 tax fee for each firearm. Both are worth a small fortune today, and I dearly wish I still owned them. I didn't like the idea the Feds could knock upon my door at any time just to ascertain all was in order. And so I let my Class III firearms dealer know I wanted to sell said firearms. The final owners went thru the fine-toothed comb background check I enjoyed to own said guns. FWIW Edit: I do own many semi-auto firearms. I'm a well armed individual. Should society tumble down, I'm able to hand a trusted friend a well-maintained WWII era bolt rifle, along with 100 rounds ammo. One gains many a trusted friend, that way.

I thought it was Good friends and a bottle of wine From Ted Nugent What is, or is not, success, is a very personal measure. Mine is not likely to satisfy you. I've had two certain, probably a third, sightings ... over 40 years. I've had camp visits, tenuous interaction, very basic communication (demonstration of "I am here"), and been within 7-9 inches of physical contact. My personal evidence, though, is limited to a couple of audio recordings reasonably labeled ambiguous because for someone not there, there's missing context, and a few track photos. I'm not on a quest for proof, I'm on a quest for understanding. Sometimes those intersect, sometimes not. MIB

Just camp in bigfoots living room. Let him find you. Use technology to detect them checking you out. Change locations from time to time in case they start avoiding you. Hog hunters, and deer hunters here in the south seem to have their success when they hunt a new location for the first time, when nothing has had the chance to pattern them. Try that when you go hunting Squatchy.

Why would a disbeliever advocate even ask this question to begin with? Hit the road, rube.

I took the opportunity while washing dishes to ask a couple of them for you. One snorted & said "I think not". The other one nearly choked on one of the frogs she was eating & is still laughing. I hope she'll be OK.....

Have you ever asked any of yours if they would be willing to come forward and show themselves? I mean, it can't hurt to ask, surely.

Most habituation humans do not want BF "discovered" because they think it would be bad for the BF. If the federal government gets involved like they did with the NA they are probably correct. Additionally they have a trust thing going on with their local BF and outing them would wreck that. Unlike Shadowborn most will not even introduce visitors to the local BF. There really are not that many admitted habituation people on this forum as opposed to some other forums.

Just to explain why I will NEVER try to kill one of these animals. Until 2010, I had never seen but two of them clearly. The first was a huge male that came to the back of my pickup camper shell. He was completely benign, and was talking to himself before he stopped within two feet of the back of the pick-up. Just nosey, curious and neat as he picked up my cooking gear and put it back in place.. The next was a noticeably pregnant female that stepped out in plain view just outside a holly thicket. She was listening to the Sierra Sounds from the CD I was playing. She was completely benign and curious. About 3 PM on July 27, 2010 another one was apparently watching me put up a game camera in a deep, hollow that had a spring fed stream running through it. When I finished, it responded to some light wood knocks by breaking fairly large green tree limbs. When I clapped two rocks together once, it hit a dead tree with what sounded like a rock. After an hour or so I started walking out. It was standing and waiting on me beside the trail. It deliberately let me see him eye-to-eye for a few seconds, then ran off like a bat out of Hades and jumped off into the stream bed. He was a teenager in excellent physical shape. Had the light coating of black hair on his body been shaved off, he would have looked like a high school fullback. No sane and rational human would ever shoot one of these creatures after seeing him. There are aggressive BF which are dangerous. Some grown animals have been shot and wounded for no reason other than being what they are; huge, hairy and fearsome looking beings. Unprecedented destruction of their homelands - especially in the Southeast - - has, without a doubt, caused them to be more hostile toward humans who encroach on their ever dwindling foraging areas.

There has been success?

Wish to thank BobbyO for his submittals. They are very helpful. For years I have used The Old Farmer's Almanac for planning outings. Also, while I haven't run the dot matrix and calendar through my statistics program, from observation there is a high correlation of sightings to weather, elevation, hunting seasons, and declining temperature. None of that is new, but I haven't seen it on paper before now. Thank you again BobbyO. Ps: We make our first scout foray for the late March long camp tomorrow. Also, more on cameras later. Long ago I invested in a super strong Gitzo tripod and a Nikon F3 to use with a Nikon 400 2.8 lens. {Check that lens on the web for current pricing, which is consistent with the consumer goods inflation index. } So, I think I know a little about big time bucks photography and have put $$ where my mouth is. My basic idea now? Don't spend a lot on photo equipment unless you have many, many hours, especially at dawn in warm clothes, to spend with binoculars or a good spotting scope to watch a likely area. You will end up with some great wildlife photos. I also think airborne photo systems will yield little; maybe not even much in regards to elk butts on the run. Maybe I'm wrong.