Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Crater Lake ammo theft

just how any rounds do you think the average park ranger will carry while on patrol?
yes there are pot grows in our forests and meth labs in our trailer parks, but we certainly don't have the corner on the market.
when i see our local forest ranger wandering around armed it just makes me feel soooooo safe and protected!
just one more layer of Big Brother we don't need.

They deal with the public, so anything goes.

I doubt a lot of people that venture all the way up in the Oregon mountains to Crater Lake are looking for trouble. It's probably 60 miles from Medford, the largest town in southern Oregon. All uphill driving into the mountains to get there, not much for a troublemaker to do with a lack of asphalt and sirens.

But, it's the public, and because of it's distance from law enforcement, I'd expect them to be armed. Especially today with terrorists walking into America every day. It's only a matter of when, not if.

A buddy of mine who was a State Trooper carried 41 rounds on him, 4 spare 8 round mags for a H&K P7M8 and a 8 round mag in the weapon and one in the tube. He had 4 boxes of 50 and extra mags ready to go in a brief case in his troop car. He also had a State issued AR and 870. He also had his own pistol grip 870 with plenty of ammo! He was a "I'd rather have it and not need it" guy! If there was a bank robbery or drug shoot out I bet he would go thru those 41 rounds pretty quickly. He practiced (required) a lot including night shoots and shooting left handed out the car window while going in reverse!

Obviously, since this theft took place within a National Park, there is crime there. If there had never been even one theft there before, crime there is now up by 100%.

Even NP rangers need to practice if they're going to carry. I'd bet that almost all the ammunition ANYbody buys is used for practice. (You shoot your deer rifle all year and down your buck with only one shot, right?)

Need to work on the math a little?

I've been going through, as opposed to around, national parks with arms for my entire life.

Absolutely! He's holding a motorhome full of retirees! Just looks like popcorn from some angles. And if one looks close at ifubar's pictures, you can see a filthy hippy trying to piss in the lake! We need more Ranger to fight the heathens. I can't believe the antis posting here! This is serious!

Math was never my strong suit, RC. Given three math problems, I'll get half of them wrong.