Posted on 01/22/2012 8:49:10 PM PST by montag813
by John Hill
Stand with Arizona
The border is "safer than ever". So says DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano. Again and again.
Barack Obama has mocked those who say the border is unsafe: "Maybe they'll need a moat. Maybe they'll want alligators in the moat. They'll never be satisfied."
But for Texas ranchers in the Rio Grande Valley, the border has never been more dangerous. And they are stocking up with the hardware to do the job that the Feds refuse to do - AK47 rifles to defend their property and lives from border violence.
Barbed wire fencing doesn't keep illegal aliens off the property anymore. One Starr County, TX rancher doesn't have time to worry about the illegals these days. He now worries about the smugglers protecting their loads.
"I don't think they would have any conscience of taking someone's life," the rancher says.
He saw that will to kill firsthand. A smuggler shot at him on his own land.
"One round was fired at me, and it missed my head by about two feet," says the rancher.
He says there's only way to react.
"Fire all the rounds you have, reload, and do it again," says the rancher.
The local Armory Gun Store says business has been brisk for AK-47s and AR-15s from "countless" ranchers reporting break-ins and home invasions. But this rancher said no matter how many guns they buy, they will always be "outgunned" by the cartels.
I guess these ranchers didn't get the memo from Obama and Big Sis that their border is "safer than ever".
What will they want next....a moat?
Full video report below:
HAH!!
Caught you! Old pros who have spent more than an hour reloading know that you need Diet Coke and Mentos, not Pez.!
Should have quit while you were ahead Laz ;)
Don't mess with the best.
I hadn’t thought about that. Damn...I once again stand corrected.
They’re using semi-auto AK-47s so no license necessary.
What delivery system are you going to use?
Not gunslingers but the more dignified title of “Range Detective” to ride the range in the employ of the rancher for the purpose of protecting & defending the livestock . It’s for the purity & safety of the food supply don’t you know.
Right.It has been a long time since I saw an old fashioned shoot=em up. Guys like Charles Starrett used to hired out as range detective to catch rustlers working for guys in town who wanted to take over the range.
That’s what I figured, but if I was there, I would give serious consideration to full auto weapons. Is it still $200 per year per gun?
AFAIK it is. I’m afraid full-auto weapons and the cost of ammo for them is above my means. I think you get better fire control with a semi-auto anyway.
Is the tax stamp $200 per year? I thought it was a one time thing.
I believe it is a one-time payment. Same with sound suppressors. The ideal home defense weapon would be a 16inch barrel (counting suppressor body welded on) AR platform in 45 ACP caliber ... IMHO. You can build one for around $1400, with three twenty-five round mags.
I believe it is a one-time payment. Same with sound suppressors. The ideal home defense weapon would be a 16inch barrel (counting suppressor body welded on) AR platform in 45 ACP caliber ... IMHO. You can build one for around $1400 (counting the stamps for SBR and suppressor), with three twenty-five round mags.
Why the seal skin?
They want $200 bucks for each Class III item though don’t they? One for your full-auto receiver, one for your suppressor and one for each of anything else on the list. And a brand new registration and another $200 if you alter anything such as putting different guts in your suppressor. I could be wrong about that.
“I just loaded up over 1000 rounds of “Soul Takers”. “
Progov, assuming your loading .338 Lapua, what do you think your cost is per round for reloading?
I figure that my 50 BMG rounds cost me about $1.25 or less with my used brass. (Pulled 700 grn Ball, CCI #35, surplus power). Some of the old WWII brass I have only lasts 2 or 3 shots though. Newer stuff last longer.
Gonna find out this year...
Sounds good. I wish you all the best in that.
You can try to scare them off with lots of 7.62x39, or drop them with 30-06 elk hunting rounds. Yeah, scaring them off will work for a while, and avoids certain complications, but what do you do when they don't scare off?
That's why you advertise, so they'll know. After the first group of 'em falls afoul of the Soul Stealer's. :) The reverse, a rumor that pig fat was used as bullet lube, worked against the British, when the British East Indian (old sense, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh today) Army was fighting in the Hindu Kush against the Afghans who were egged on by the Russians (pre Soviet Union). That was when you had to bite the end off the paper cartridge, pour the powder into the barrel and then ram the bullet in above it. This was in 1857, the rifles were Pattern 1853 Enfields
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepoy_Rebellion#Tallow-greased_cartridges
But they very well might try to blow up a path through one. It's what we do.
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