Then by the exact same standard, you must accept that Mohammed ascended into heaven, The Buddha produced both fire and water from his body, aliens have been abducting people off the earth and probing them, etc.
Most of those who have reported to have seen Bigfoot are here to tell the tale. This isn't some legend, this is a creature that intelligent people are seeing roaming in the most virgin forests in our nation.
You ever work at a check station? They shoot everything, whether it's legal or not! They shoot dogs, people in their back yards, cows, each other (even when wearing bright orange)...so to suggest that the only reason that no hunter has ever shot a bigfoot is because it's illegal is naive and wishful thinking to the nth degree.
You seem to miss the point. Nobody is going to bring in a Bigfoot carcass when they know they'll be arrested for it.
You're going to have to do better than "un-reviewed DNA sequences printed by an unethical nutjob in a 'journal' that she owns herself".
You missed the point again. Eyewitness accounts, including those in my own family, are all the persuasion that's needed.