Was I dead or was RPLStoday dead?

I already called 911. They were not very helpful.

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Nate The Surveyor, post: 434615, member: 291 wrote: They were not very helpful.

That's why I own guns, and in all due surveyor modesty, know how to use them. 😎

It's like the time i quit drinking, smoking and chasing wild women; it was the worst 15 minutes of my life!

Nate The Surveyor, post: 434615, member: 291 wrote: I already called 911. They were not very helpful.

Hmmm. Maybe I need to open up rpls911.com 😀 😉

FL/GA PLS., post: 434616, member: 379 wrote: That's why I own guns, and in all due surveyor modesty, know how to use them

Monte, post: 434631, member: 11913 wrote:

I turned down a ranch in Sanderson, Texas because they insisted we all be armed while out there. While that's not a big deal for me, I kept asking why and they never would say. I ain't driving 11 hours to get in a firefight if I can help it.

It's all my fault. I did not have a chance to open up and unlock the portals first thing this morning and offer some bizarre story or joke to start things off. Proof the wheels fall off this bus when I'm not around.

Now where did they hide that sarcasm button?????;);)

I got a trophy! Yippee!

Monte, post: 434631, member: 11913 wrote:

Reminds me of a beardless Mr. Natural with RTK. Or Rich Leu's avatar.

Kris Morgan, post: 434646, member: 29 wrote: I turned down a ranch in Sanderson, Texas because they insisted we all be armed while out there. While that's not a big deal for me, I kept asking why and they never would say. I ain't driving 11 hours to get in a firefight if I can help it.

Probably have a significant problem with Illegals, "Coyotes" and "Mules" crossing their property.

I don't sign in at work, so I only get the public posts... so about 10am this morning I couldn't get on here as my go to "first look" website and my keycard wasn't working right on the building doors either.... So, it being Friday and all... I avoided all upper management just in case a "Friday Surprise" was coming. I'm nearing the end of my 6-month probationary period, so the mind tends to run amok on certain days.... Today was one of those.

It just gave me more time to do the work I was supposed to .... Yeah, not a great way to start the weekend

Serious question Monte. Do you have to take the glove off first?

Daniel Ralph, post: 434660, member: 8817 wrote: Serious question Monte. Do you have to take the glove off first?

I have practiced with gloves on, I am better without. But we was having to put our hands amongst the rocks that day, and that's where snakes like to rest, as well as scorpions. Playing the odds, I figured I'd need the gloves more than rapid accurate fire.

I figured dumb or tough...
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Stephen Johnson, post: 434653, member: 53 wrote: Probably have a significant problem with Illegals, "Coyotes" and "Mules" crossing their property.

After seeing your post and Monte and Chris's, I never realized the problem is that bad. If the "Mules" are transporting significant amounts I suspect they are well armed. How do you avoid them?

Fire off a few random rounds somewhat frequently to let potential trespassers know to avoid the immediate area.

Similar to yelling at the snakes that may or may not be in your immediate area to warn them of your impending entry into their territory."HEY YOU. MISTER SNAKE. MOVE. I'M COMING THROUGH."

Holy Cow, post: 434759, member: 50 wrote: Similar to yelling at the snakes that may or may not be in your immediate area to warn them of your impending entry into their territory."HEY YOU. MISTER SNAKE. MOVE. I'M COMING THROUGH."

Well considering all the ground vibrations you must cause, you would probably scare off everything. Even a renegade Hippopotamus. 😉

FL/GA PLS., post: 434715, member: 379 wrote: After seeing your post and Monte and Chris's, I never realized the problem is that bad. If the "Mules" are transporting significant amounts I suspect they are well armed. How do you avoid them?

I been pondering whether to answer this or not. Mostly they want to avoid you as badly as we want to avoid them. But if they are thirsty, hungry, or feel lost, they may "loose some fear". They will try to take water from an unattended ATV, rummage thru a pack, and they will certainly break into a survey chariot parked unattended on some back country ranch road to see what is useful to them. Our closest encounter was the day we started hearing mexican talk on our radios. We were less than a mile from the rio grande, so it did not send up too many alarms. But the radio traffic got clearer. Then the guy in our group who is much better in hos Spanish/Mexican than I am called a halt, and said they were talking about us! They were talking about the gringos on ATVs, carrying a blue cooler, but they could see we were armed. The radio traffic indicated the mexicans were going to try to skirt around us, so we circled up, kept watch, and did not go looking for trouble. (for those of you wondering, Cell phones don't work out there. Sat phones were very unreliable in those days. And CBP didn't care.) After an hour, we moved on. Finished the day. The next morning, the ranch manager called us before we got away from the hotel, asked where we had been. We told him, and he said the CBP (Border Patrol) had called him and said they had received a call from a lady who said she had been in a group being smuggled into the US. She had a 6 year old child with her. They ran into some guys on ATVs, so the smugglers made them run to another set of canyons. She couldn't keep up, so they left her and her child. She climbed the highest ridge she could find to try to get enough cell signal to call out, she got lucky and the call went out. (I guess to 911, that I don't know) We told them where we had been, and they sent a helicopter to look for this lady and kid. The Coyotes do not care about human life. Not one bit. Except their own. The drug mules, they are the same. But to pose the question. Have none of you who work in rural settings not ever been wandering along and came upon a marijuana grow operation? They busted one in the TX panhandle, a county east of where I had been working, that had over 50,000 plants in it. And have none of you come across a portable meth lab? saw a thermos, gave it a kick, and then, realized just how stupid a mistake you made as it starts spewing crap everywhere? For those of you who do mortage surveys, have you not ever had to wonder about the house with the worn down pathway to the window at the back of the house, all the other windows covered in tinfoil? They usually got a big mean dog in the yard. And the neighbors are watching you very carefully!