Assault Rifles in 36A

[azffhunter]

Can you and the media identify which weapon they were carrying? Clearly it was a machine gun right?

 

It looked like something of the AR platform..but didn't stop to ask. Didn't matter to me either way. They were obviously not hunters...that's all the info I needed.

[azffhunter]

Reported it to Border Patrol who dispatched a team to hopefully locate and intercept these chumps. Be careful out there and happy hunting!!

 

Did you follow-up with the BP to fide out if they nabbed them?

 

I spoke to BP at the Sasabe checkpoint on my way at about 20:00...they said they still were working it.

[azffhunter]

Did they have big backpacks ?

 

Yes they had backpacks....was it drugs...? Wasn't gonna ask.

[azffhunter]

Just curious- Can you be a little more specific about "encountered". Did you end up face to face, or did you glass them from a distance? Did they know you were there? The more you can share, the more you might be able to help some others who hunt down there.

 

Thanks.

 

I was driving down a dirt road making my way back to Sasabe Hwy...I saw movement so I looked and saw three men about 30 yards from me hit the ground trying to hide from me. I saw the weapons and packs. I just pretended not to see them...drove right by them. Marked the coordinates with my GPS and gave it to BP. Would have been awful if I was on foot and had the encounter...who knows what would have happened. I had a sidearm...but three guys with those kind of weapons could've been bad. They way they hid I'm guEssing they did want the encounter any more than I did.

[azffhunter]

It could also have been some "minutemen"... as they do wear camo and carry semi-automatic rifles from time to time. I'm with John-O... did they see you? Were they on the road?

 

I have a lot of contact with illegal border crossers in my occupation...I don't think they were Minutemen....I'm pretty confident in saying they were dope runners. But...just my opinion.

[cw4192]

yep that would be 40-50 lbs of dope. welcome to America, come vote for obama and bring in some dope.

[vegasjeep]

Ive ran into them a lot. and oddly most the drug runners I find are in 36A and the illegals are 36B... not sure why.

the "good Samaritans" are funded by the drug cartels to supply food and water out when the smugglers are running hot. They often mark the food and water plots with empty gallon jugs on the ocotillo plants so they can be seen for long distances. this also marks the trails.

 

Its total BS that more cannot be done to hang these POS so called good samaritans by there ears....

 

Usually when I encounter drug smugglers Ill get GPS coords and call it in. Usually when on a hill glassing and I watch the helicopter come in and swoop them up..

[reganranch]

If this country wasn't so left and weak we could put billboards up in mexico a couple months ahead saying sneaking over into this beautiful country will no longer happen, IF YOU TRESPASS ILLEGALLY INTO THE USA WE WILL ENGAGE LETHALLY. Have posts all along the border with tanks/humvee's/apaches/predators and a couple of them will not take hede to the warning and will perish, but after a couple weeks they would get the message.

[kazpilot25]

Thanks for the info, I was down in 36B over the weekend and saw some illegals way down near the border, but no smugglers.

[Scooter]

It could also have been some "minutemen"... as they do wear camo and carry semi-automatic rifles from time to time. I'm with John-O... did they see you? Were they on the road?

 

I have a lot of contact with illegal border crossers in my occupation...I don't think they were Minutemen....I'm pretty confident in saying they were dope runners. But...just my opinion.

 

 

Yeah they probably bugged out pretty quick after being spotted... The armed guys usually don't stick with the group for too long after they get the drugs across... They were probably headed home or they were the really bad guys who are looking to ambush a rival cartel drug/people train.

[Ernesto C]

I have seen in those units men in full camouflage also carrying AR's. Last one was in 36B, glassed two of them in th opposite ridge, one was carrying what it looked like an AR and the other one a rifle. They were carrying back packs, I assumed they were hunters. A couple minutes later I herd some voices below me; there were another two guys in full camo carrying AR's also. I wistle at them and wave at them to let them know I was there. They came to me and I find out they were Border Patrol and so the other two in the opposite ridge; they were comunicating back and fort with their radios. Aparently some one reported seen some illegals in the area and reported to them.

 

It was nice to see them there and thank them for their service and told them to catch them all as they continued with their search.

 

Ernesto C

[PRDATR]

Customs Border Patrol Tucson 520-748-3000. Put it in your phone.

[AzHuntingAddict]

Word to the wise, these "rip crews" have scouts watching from the mountain tops as well. Vekoll valley has had a big problem with that, and I imagine the units along the border have them as well. Glad to hear you made it thru without incident. This is why I dont hunt alone along the southern units.

[kazpilot25]

Customs Border Patrol Tucson 520-748-3000. Put it in your phone.

 

Done.

[BASS]

I have friends I work with who rifle hunt down there. In addition to their hunting rifles, they pack ARs and side arms. Who knows, it might have been them, they were down there last weekend scouting for a hunt. I don't know why they like it so much down there, they never tag out, and like I said, they ALWAYS have an AR near them while hunting, cooking in camp, and sleeping. I mean, I take my AR with me when I go anywhere alone up North or down South, but it sits in the truck, and near the bed. I did hike with it in 6A a few weeks back because I found a tore up camp, and a few furtilizer bags that were in the middle of nowhere shoved under a log and I didn't want to walk into a grow operation!