Bigfoot Hunt at Jennings Forest, Notheast Florida #1

Several days ago, I drove up to Jennings Forest which is a state park. I took Long Road at the north end into the forest. The hunt did not begin well. I stopped a young woman on horseback, escorted by her Pit Bull and her Heeler. When I asked her about seeing a Bigfoot, she laughed and asked, " You mean there are Bigfoot here? Wait until I tell my husband?" Since her horse's tracks were almost everywhere I went, I wasn't overly optimistic that I would see Bigfoot. However, I was scanning diligently both sides of the forest and glassing some areas. Very few people do that, especially one on horseback with two dogs underfoot. Much of the area I covered was managed for quail which meant there was controlled burning. The palmettoes were only about two feet tall and there was no other underbrush. Of course, there was the omnipresent pine tree except that there were actually areas of deciduous trees. This is a rarity in Florida. The whole state, where there is open land, appears to be a pine plantation. I growled and prowled but saw only a vulture, two doves, and three deer. I flushed the deer at dusk and thought I saw two with one seeming to break down on the front legs when he ran. I hypothesized he was a shot deer. Wanting to be sure I saw two deer and not just one, I got out and walked into the open, deciduous woods. Just as I turned back to the truck, the deer panicked, burst out of their stationary mode, and ran. There were two. I found round, two inch wide tracks in the sand which could have been panther. Later, I walked upon two inch round tracks with two claws extended in clay. He could either have been a panther or a bobcat. Deer tracks were plentiful. I saw old hog rooting and brand-new turkey scratching right by the road. That was testimony to how lightly the park is used by vehicles. The park is open to hunting BUT by permit only. Even though it was the weekend, there was almost no one around. I only saw three trucks. This probably explains why all the Bigfoot sightings I've read about from Jennings have come from young people from neighboring homes. There are almost no adults around and almost no hunters to be bumping the Bigfoot. Jennings Forest is only 25,000 acres compared to Ocala Forest's 400, 000. Big difference. I talked to three hunters, and they did not relate any sightings or signs of Bigfoot. One hunted regularly at Osceola Forest (Swamp)  and had seen nothing there either. A good ole boy in a well-used truck with his fellow hunting companion told me that a friend of his had seen two Bigfoot in the Chiefland, Florida area and got angry when he wasn't believed. He had an aunt in the Perry, Florida area who had driven by the Aucilla River in her daily commute as a nurse and seen a Bigfoot. She was so traumatized by the sighting that she takes an alternate route to work. A friend of his took an 18 day campting trip to northern California, prime Bigfoot country, and climbed a mountain one day. In doing that, he heard a unique growl-howl that had to be Mr. Bigfoot. The two good ole boys went on ,and at dusk I heard a shot from their area. They looked like woodsmen. That was the only shot I heard all day. Please report your sightings to me. 352-359-0850  Thanks, Two-Guns.