Mexico: Underground Arms Cache across the border from McAllen, Texas

Gun Watch ^ | 11 July, 2015 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Not a very large cache. Probably one of many. I do not see a magazine for the Enfield. Perhaps they mistook the Enfield magazine for a .50 cal magazine.

[marktwain]

Here are some pictures of the recent, small armes cache found in Mexico.

Your expertise is always welcome.

[Farmer Dean]

I see an RPK there.I always wanted one.

[going hot]

These guys probably do a lot of scuba diving in ponds and such.

[rktman]

Looks like a Barret 50 on the bi-pod. I’ve read that they can actually shoot down the space station and sink super tankers from 20 miles away with a single ketchup bottle sized bullet. :>} Besides, how is this find even possible since we all know that nobody has guns in meh-eek-O due to their strict gun laws. Sure it wasn’t a tea-party cache near the Bundy ranch?

[marktwain]

Probably a semi-auto RPK clone. There were a fair number imported into the U.S.

[marktwain]

It is an Armalite AR-50, a single shot bolt action .50 caliber rifle.

[marktwain]

It is an Armalite AR-50, a single shot bolt action .50 caliber rifle.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

There’s plenty of them around if you look too, but be ready to shell out well over $2,000 for one.

[Farmer Dean]

It seems to have the plum colored stock and handguards,the Russian RPK’s typically have those.

[rktman]

Thanks Dean. At least I got the .50 part right. Still, those ketchup bottle sized bullets...............:>}

[marktwain]

That makes me even more perturbed at Bush the Elder. I had an order in for a semi-auto RPK, with mags, bi-pod, and drum, cash in advance, when he put out the executive order blocking their import the first time, I think it was back in the late ‘80s.

[marktwain]

Maybe the RPK is Russian. Thanks for the info. Most Chinese or Romanian ones that I have seen pictures of have blond wood, as I recall.

[Bucky14]

What the heck happened to that Enfield? Must have sporterized it. And the stock is all messed up as well.

I have a 1918 Enfield MkIII. Love it. Can drill tacks with it still. Just a wonderful piece of British precision.

[ScottinVA]

The “Tunnel of Love,” right Jeb?

[marktwain]

Huge numbers of Enfields were “sporterized” to some degree or another. Often, the point of impact is changed when the forward furniture is removed. YMMV.

I saw a sporterized Enfield no. 1 MK IV the other day. Someone had cut off the battlefield zero sight and installed a scope mount (not a bad idea, when you chop down the stock.) I always like their peep sights.

I could not ID the scope mounting system though, It was not a Weaver rail on top. Maybe an 11 mm?

[Bucky14]

breaks my heart when I see them sporterized. Not sure about that scope either.

[Lazamataz]

So Operation Gunwalker resumed, since no one took any jail time for the first operation.

Not surprising. The news is when Obama *FOLLOWS* a law.

[Lazamataz]

That makes me even more perturbed at Bush the Elder. I had an order in for a semi-auto RPK, with mags, bi-pod, and drum, cash in advance, when he put out the executive order blocking their import the first time, I think it was back in the late ‘80s.

Establishment Republicans are every bit as anti-gun as Democrats.

Someday in the next few years, the REPUBLICANS will be the ones to ban guns. Mark my words.

[buffaloguy]

Small collection in Texas.

Meh.......