You're carrying a firearm for protection and in the middle of the night, you hear a strange noise outside your tent. So you quietly exit the tent with your firearm and suddenly you see a 7 ft. tall humanoid thing standing there.
You have the firearm in your hands so what do you do?
1. Shoot the thing and hope you kill it to prove to the world that there are Sasquatches ?
2. Grab a flashlight then fire the gun to scare it off then chase after it to see where it lives?
3. Scare it off with the firearm then report it to the local papers the next day where you will likely be classified as a kook?
I’ll go with number 2.
They’re probably more scared of us than we are of them.