My advice would be SHOOT IT DEAD. Can you imagine the fame for being the person to FINALLY bag a bigfoot and to be able to put the speculation to bed once and for all?
The next thing you know the gubmint will be telling us that UFOs are real!
They will probably be charged with insurrection.
Don’t like your tone.
Shoot, shovel and shut up. Five minutes after you announce finding one the Department of Interior will declare your entire state a "Megapod Reserve" to protect the bigfeet (bigfoots?) and prohibit all human development.
Also, if you find a bigfoot do not offer it a Bud Light. Just because you can't tell what's going on underneath their fur doesn't mean that they are confused.
Mixed feelings about that. He did me no harm, and I doubt that he's good eating. But "bagging" him would likely result in mandated protection for his kind.