Posted on 07/02/2012 6:18:03 PM PDT by Kaslin
just speculating- Wrapped in PLASTIC, Not been picked up for (who really knows) a year? Maybe the owner was offed by a SWAT team because the Fed unknown informant blew it?
Brave soul. that hiker.
In AridZONA???
Finders, keepers, no?
And of course, while I am hiking in the woods, I enjoy nature by rooting through black garbage bags ......
I wouldn't have treated them any different than a discarded water bottle. Though they might have ended up refurbished rather than recycled. ;-)
Although my first instinct would be to keep my mouth shut, I’d be worried that they’d been used in some capital crime and that they were traceable and I’d be the last one standing when the music stopped.
But, that would be a long hard thought.
Maybe bury them for a while but I’m too paranoid and I would be worried that they might be able to solve some crime and bring some fine non citizen to justice.
Why can’t I find stuff like this? I hike all the time.
No gun is ever rusty, that’s called a “patina”.
Why can’t I be that lucky?
>> “Very bad reaction on the part of the hiker.” <<
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Pima county residents are not generally known for their brilliance. About as leftie as Arizona gets.
I know some tribal members that live on the Tohono O’odham Reservation.
One told me of people that have knocked on her door and offered her a pretty big chunk of money to drive a load in to Casa Grande, about 30 miles away. As she told it, she really wasn't sure if the man was a cartel member or a DEA agent. Neither of whom she trusts. Another told me of a group of UDAs that showed up at her sister's house in dire need of water. She gave them a pitcher to get water out of her faucet. When they left, they took her wheelbarrow. About an hour later, they returned with the wheelbarrow. Only now it contained a woman's body. She had died trying to cross the desert. Tons of drugs go through the Vekol Valley every month. In Pinal Cont alone they find an average of 70 bodies a year on the desert. I have no idea how many are found on the T.O. or in Pima County. It's bad. Real bad.
Not quite. The Pinal County Sheriff's Dept. covers the Village of ChuiChu.
But you are correct that the T O is wide open. Small police dept. and and a lot of territory. It is the second largest reservation in Arizona. Plus, it extends INTO Mexico.
Border Patrol is pretty active there, but like everything there are too few with limited resources.
When I lived there TO would not allow anyone to patrol their Sovereign Nation.
No BP, No Sheriffs, No Nobody.
I must have missed the downside.
The Gunfairy leaves a gift and numbnuts reports it? He’s gonna get a lump of coal in his stocking this Christmas.
(And before anyone says anything about rust, that’s nothing a little visit from the Elbowgreasefairy won’t fix!)
Madera Canyon is in the middle of the Sonaran Desert. If they were “badly rusted” they would have had been there for over 100 years or in an area where water stood for a long time. I would think that anyone stashing guns would find a place where they stayed dry.
1-Take pictures of site, undisturbed.
2-Note GPS coordinates.
3-Note Serial Numbers.
4-Send information to Issa’s office.
...then contact the Sheriff and don’t tell them anything about 1-4.
Years ago when I lived in Phoenix, my astronomy club treasured the Vekol Valley as a dark sky site. But after too many astronomer vs. alien close encountered in the pitch blackness, we had to abandon the site.
But now that Obama and the SCOTUS have officially written off the entire state, we’re now part of Mexico whether we like it or not. We will need those AKs for our own defense.
“Then why not deploy on EA6 to the area? “
Practice for our boys at Davis-Monthan and Fort Huachuca!
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