Air Raid

[WRUE951]

So we go out shooting today in are fine hot desert..  Packing up and starting to leave a caravan of jeeps with all types of advertising on them parade by us.  Something big even going on with outlanders in our desert this weekend.   As we are watching, one guy in his jeep parks up on a hill within eye site from us..  All of a sudden we are hearing an Air Raid Siren,  Louder than hell..  Turns out the guy on the hill has some sort of a hand crank air siren mounted in the back of his jeep and he is up there cranking away...  Then the GMRS radios let loose..  Everyone was enjoying the nosie and their fun..   We left them behind in their dust..   It was actually kind of neat.  They all defiantly had GMRS Radios and they gathered on 10, 11 & 12

[OffRoaderX]

Jeepers are weird.

[WSHH887]

1 hour ago, OffRoaderX said:

Jeepers are weird.

+1

[GrouserPad]

9 hours ago, WRUE951 said:

So we go out shooting today in are fine hot desert..  Packing up and starting to leave a caravan of jeeps with all types of advertising on them parade by us.  Something big even going on with outlanders in our desert this weekend.   As we are watching, one guy in his jeep parks up on a hill within eye site from us..  All of a sudden we are hearing an Air Raid Siren,  Louder than hell..  Turns out the guy on the hill has some sort of a hand crank air siren mounted in the back of his jeep and he is up there cranking away...  Then the GMRS radios let loose..  Everyone was enjoying the nosie and their fun..   We left them behind in their dust..   It was actually kind of neat.  They all defiantly had GMRS Radios and they gathered on 10, 11 & 12

You left so much out of your story, I was on the edge of my seat hoping for more. Will you be posting the next chapter of this air raid saga?

[WRTC928]

Surely there's more to this story. Maybe they all gathered just to hear the siren, but it seems likely it was part of some larger event.

[WRUE951]

No sorry,,, didn't hang around after spending 3 hours in a hot 106 degree afternoon..  The jeeper parade was a bit kool but most were Fancy Mall Crawlers.  Lifted, looking pretty all set up for outlanding  The Air Raid Siren was pretty loud and impressive and unexpected considering a large military base is just a few miles away..  Dang, i havent heard an air raid siren in 40 years.  I was curious who the group was and what they were up too.. No one here has the dig..  O.K.  

[H8SPVMT]

So, ya went out into the desert (Of all places) to shoot those nasty, foul smelling PEWs PEWS and without much of a backstop endangering the natural habitat and all its beauty. 

Then, them sneaky Jeepers must have followed you out there knowing you won't lead them astray to get lost, and never find their way back to civilization!  It's a well know fact, "All perityfied Jeeps" never dare to leave the pavement  in great fear of harming the environment and treating very lightly even on hard-packed, undisturbed gravel roads!

I bet the real story is that they stopped alongside the road cause when hearing you "PEW, PeW, PEW that awful 9mm watermelon seed thrower you carry for protection scared em so bad they had to sound the alarm and get on the radios for backup help....... Hope ya picked up that nasty seed casing you endangered the environment with, my GOD Man!  

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Had to get out and check my Jeep just to make sure there were no seed casings in it!

Edited Monday at 10:17 PM by H8SPVMT
To clean up my foul language.

[OffRoaderX]

2 hours ago, WRUE951 said:

most were Fancy Mall Crawlers.  Lifted, looking pretty all set up for outlanding... I was curious who the group was

I know/am familiar with a lot of the Jeep groups around here and sadly many of them are just very pretty mall-crawlers and grocery getters with fresh wax-jobs and tire-sidewalls still wet from all the ArmorAll, that only go "off road" on flat dirt roads one or two times a year. 

We dont associate with those kinds.

[73blazer]

You should have used their rubber ducks for target practice.

[WRUE951]

1 hour ago, H8SPVMT said:

So, ya went out into the desert (Of all places) to shoot those nasty, foul smelling guns and without much of a backstop endangering the natural habitat and all its beauty. 

Then, them sneaky Jeepers must have followed you out there knowing you won't lead them astray to get lost, and never find their way back to civilization!  It's a well know fact, "All perityfied Jeeps" never dare to leave the pavement  in great fear of harming the environment and treating very lightly even on hard-packed, undisturbed gravel roads!

I bet the real story is that they stopped alongside the road cause when hearing you shooting that awful 9mm cannon you carry for protection scared em so bad they had to sound the alarm and get on the radios for backup help....... Hope ya picked up that nasty brass and lead bullets you endangered the environment with, my GOD Man!  

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Had to geo out and check my Jeep just to make sure there were no bullet holes it to!

Actually,,  shooting on a designated BLM shooting range against a very large backdrop..  I guarantee the jeepers air raid siren was much louder than our .308 shells exploding from our AR-10's...  I feel sorry for all those jeepers,  they had to go clean some dust off their pretty Mall Crawlers  

[AdmiralCochrane]

OK, I am hiding until the admin sees this and deletes.  You probably forgot that's a prohibited subject here. A bunch of us did and the admin came in and "cleaned things up"

[H8SPVMT]

34 minutes ago, AdmiralCochrane said:

OK, I am hiding until the admin sees this and deletes.  You probably forgot that's a prohibited subject here. A bunch of us did and the admin came in and "cleaned things up"

Well, I just got excited and all, ya know!  GOT to be careful my one and only Jeep Ducky didn't run off with them watermelons seeds fly 'bout!  I edited best I could even with my legs crossed so tight well to kept from peeing myself!  Jeeping and watermelon eating jus' gets me all worked up! 

 

 

[nokones]

Sounds like one of those weird cults to me. Where did this cult gathering happen? I wanna make sure that I don't get near their Koolaid.

[OffRoaderX]

21 minutes ago, nokones said:

Where did this cult gathering happen?

i too would like to know.. if not the exact spot, at least a more generalized location - i'm curious if its one of the areas we ever go to.

[WRUE951]

21 minutes ago, OffRoaderX said:

i too would like to know.. if not the exact spot, at least a more generalized location - i'm curious if its one of the areas we ever go to.

Near Ridgecrest, about 3 miles from Hwy 395.     35°33'25.52"N  117°42'14.92"W.       I think you hang out further south by Garlock and Randsburg.  

[OffRoaderX]

20 minutes ago, WRUE951 said:

I think you hang out further south by Garlock and Randsburg.  

You are correct sir.. We try to get up to Garlock/Last Chance Canyon 1 or 2 times a year but we've only been in that area you specified once, 7 or 8 years ago, after checking out The Pinnacles. 

[WRUE951]

39 minutes ago, OffRoaderX said:

You are correct sir.. We try to get up to Garlock/Last Chance Canyon 1 or 2 times a year but we've only been in that area you specified once, 7 or 8 years ago, after checking out The Pinnacles. 

 

39 minutes ago, OffRoaderX said:

You are correct sir.. We try to get up to Garlock/Last Chance Canyon 1 or 2 times a year but we've only been in that area you specified once, 7 or 8 years ago, after checking out The Pinnacles. 

The Pinnacles is pretty cool.. Lots of really cool areas around here..  I'm sure you've checked out Burro Schmit Tunnel.   

[OffRoaderX]

37 minutes ago, WRUE951 said:

I'm sure you've checked out Burro Schmit Tunnel.

For the last 8 years we have lead 1 or 2 groups per year (20-40 Jeeps each group), up Goler Gulch, through Mormon Flat, up to Schmit Tunnel, over to Holland Camp, the Cleanser Mines, then out Last Chance Canyon.

For this year's event I am thinking about getting an Air Raid Siren.. 

[WRUE951]

20 minutes ago, OffRoaderX said:

For the last 8 years we have lead 1 or 2 groups per year (20-40 Jeeps each group), up Goler Gulch, through Mormon Flat, up to Schmit Tunnel, over to Holland Camp, the Cleanser Mines, then out Last Chance Canyon.

For this year's event I am thinking about getting an Air Raid Siren.. 

Hell yes,  you will defiantly get some attention..    Think i would rather spend my money a few radios thuough  ...  I actualy met the caretaker lady that lived in that house at Burro Schimit back in 1982....She had 357's scattered througout her shack house and had one dangling off a rope by her living room easy chair..     she was pretty fiesty  

[OffRoaderX]

2 hours ago, WRUE951 said:

I actualy met the caretaker lady that lived in that house at Burro Schimit back in 1982

I met her in 1971 and she gave me a dehydrated lizard.

(yes, seriously.. they were selling trinkets like dried snakes, lizards, scorpions, etc..)

[AdmiralCochrane]

1 hour ago, OffRoaderX said:

I met her in in 1971 and she gave me a dehydrated lizard.

I'm going to remember that one

[WRUE951]

On 6/9/2025 at 7:52 PM, AdmiralCochrane said:

I'm going to remember that one

that $hit started longer than i thought