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Post by scattershot on Jul 3, 2017 9:55:29 GMT -5
Thanks . for the chilling tale, glad it worked out for you. I Googled Tierra Amarilla just to see where to stay away from, and found that it's pretty much a ghost town these days, since the highway passed them by. One of the articles that came up had a pic of the old trading post (derelict now) if you ever want to see it.
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Post by sistema1927 on Jul 3, 2017 10:48:39 GMT -5
So was the clerk in on the trio's action or did he become a statistic? I doubt he was in on the action, judging from what I saw in his eyes. He was as shocked as I was. No clue as to what happened to him but I am guessing that since he was a local that he ended up OK. I didn't hang around or go back to find out. The bad guys were standing in the parking lot when I left.
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Post by sistema1927 on Jul 3, 2017 10:55:13 GMT -5
Thanks . for the chilling tale, glad it worked out for you. I Googled Tierra Amarilla just to see where to stay away from, and found that it's pretty much a ghost town these days, since the highway passed them by. One of the articles that came up had a pic of the old trading post (derelict now) if you ever want to see it. I don't know if I would call it a ghost town, since it is still the county seat of Rio Arriba county. We tend to do that out here, putting county seats off the beaten path. Other examples are Estancia, the county seat of Torrance County, and Reserve, county seat of Catron County.
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Post by Mister Coffee on Jul 3, 2017 20:22:41 GMT -5
Thanks . for the chilling tale, glad it worked out for you. I Googled Tierra Amarilla just to see where to stay away from, and found that it's pretty much a ghost town these days, since the highway passed them by. One of the articles that came up had a pic of the old trading post (derelict now) if you ever want to see it. I don't know if I would call it a ghost town, since it is still the county seat of Rio Arriba county. We tend to do that out here, putting county seats off the beaten path. Other examples are Estancia, the county seat of Torrance County, and Reserve, county seat of Catron County. This is just the kind of place that I would look at on a map and think "That looks interesting. I'll go there." Sometimes, I hate being a dumb*** city boy.
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Post by Mister Coffee on Jul 6, 2017 22:28:41 GMT -5
Sistema, over lunch today I was retelling your story to a friend of mine. He wanted to know if, at the time of the incident, you were CCW, or military, or L.E., or what. If you don't mind saying, what were the circumstances under which you were carrying your BHP? Thanks. MC
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Post by sistema1927 on Jul 7, 2017 15:10:39 GMT -5
Sistema, over lunch today I was retelling your story to a friend of mine. He wanted to know if, at the time of the incident, you were CCW, or military, or L.E., or what. If you don't mind saying, what were the circumstances under which you were carrying your BHP? Thanks. MC I was just a private citizen, exercising my 2nd Amendment right. Back in that day neither TX (where I lived at the time) NM (where the event took place and where I live today) or CO (where I had been fishing) had CCW, but that didn't stop me from being able to save my life. I remember when I took my first NM CCW class, right after CCW was enacted in NM, and the instructor said "I have been carrying concealed, legally and illegally, for the past 30 years." It was not only my head that nodded in agreement. Most people I know carried for many years prior to needing a "permission slip". I remember when a jogger shot an attacker in my neighborhood. Since it was a good shoot the DA refused to indict him on the weapon charge. That was pretty much the rule for many years.
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Post by Mister Coffee on Jul 8, 2017 1:23:30 GMT -5
^^Thank you, sir. The story of your encounter in Tierra Amarilla is one that I will not easily forget. I'm not sure that, in the same situation, I would have had your presence of mind. I've been to NM several times. It's a beautiful state, and I could see myself living there some day.
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