Is it bigfoot? or a griz???

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Bushman, et. al.,

Since sending you my "story" the other evening concerning my experiences, I remembered an incident that happened to an acquintance of mine a few years back on the West Camas Creek trail north of Killgore, Idaho.

He and his boys pulled into Killgore (which is about 20 miles east of I-15, and 20 miles south of the Montana border.

They stopped at the "world famous" Killgore store to stock up on Spam, Coke (and beer), and the stuff you take with you when it's just "the boys" camping. His kids are quite young and they got out of the truck, and sitting in front of the store were told old weather beaten cowboys (yes, they still exist). Both cowboys had holstered .44 pistols.

My firend said his oldest asked one of the fellows what the gun was for. "Grizzly bear!" was his reply. Mel said both his boy's eyes got the size of dinner plates. They went into the store, bought there stuff, and headed out.

They got about a mile up the trail with their gear (Mel carrying it all of course) when they came across an elk leg, freshly removed, lying in the middle of the trail. Mel immediately thought "grizzly!" and turned around and headed back.

I didn't think any different until I read "The Locals" and Powell's explanation that bigfoot will tear off legs of deer and elk. I can follow the bear story, but what grizzly would drop his elk leg in the middle of a hiking trail? and just "leave it"?

Anyway, just a thought.

Jon

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Hi Jon,

Never heard of grizzly dropping anything in the way of fresh meat that could be considered a meal in the middle of any trail.

However, I have had grizzlies clean up a 100 pound gut pile and the neck and all four legs of a big bull moose in a matter of a few hours. The only evidence left at the site of the kill was a blood-filled scat weighing maybe 30 or 40 pounds.

If a big grizzly or sasquatch was in the general area where your friend Mel found that elk's leg, quickly turning around may have saved him and the kids from a confrontation that could have had the potential to turn real ugly in a hurry.

My good ranching/hunting friends that live off of the Alaska Highway have had several near-death grizzly confrontations over the years. They have even had a new Chev 4x4 pickup destroyed by a grizzly or grizzlies.

While hunting northern British Columbia over the years I have had a run-in or two with grizzlies protecting/guarding old kills that I would just as soon forget.

Bushman

[Sean V.]

On the Forest Trunk Road here in Alberta, about 10 km from the Brown Creek campground, we found a deer leg that had been snapped off cleanly and was thrown into the ditch. There was nothing else around to indicate that a deer had been killed in the immediate area. We searched the surrounding woods, finding nothing, not even blood spots which would have given us a better idea that the deer was killed in the area.

[Gerry]

Maybe it fell off the back of an ATV?
No mention was made of the condition of the tear..or cut?

[Sean V.]

There no no ATV tracks in the area at the time.

We have all broken small bits of firewood with our legs, and the two broken pieces sometimes have little splinters sticking up on each end. This is what the break looked like.

There were no noticeable tooth marks on the bone either.

[Gerry]

As Jed Clampett would say.."You got yourself a real poser there, for a certainty!"

[Sean V.]

Agreed.

It's interesting, but all in all it really only proves one thing. Something killed a deer and broke the leg off. No definate proof that it was Sasquatch related.