Re: So I Bought A Model 70 Today
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: gathumper</div><div class="ubbcode-body">If the man is saying it tested positive for coke, it's coke! The tests are only presumptive, but in 10 years of working dope I've never seen a false positive.</div></div>
I've used test kits too. As with you, never seen a false positive. But testing the baggies of powder found in ski-bum's wallets and in the cars of sierra-bravos... Everything I've tested is from a sample that gives it a mathematical probability that makes it more-than-likely... cocaine.
I've never tested Hexamine, Naptha, etc. because I've never had reason to stop a hunter w. survival kit.
My point about the Hex potentially giving a false positive was on a hunch that, because Hex is a reagent used in many tests, it may spike a coke kit. It's an interesting theory, little more. Any chemists here?
Not denying that it could easily be cocaine... but the bigger picture of having it in a Missouri rifle stock from the '50s with a name, survival matches, etc. makes me think that the circumstances don't add up to drugs, at least to me. Could the guy be a 1950's rock cocaine smuggler? Well, suppose it's possible.
But I'd be looking for some more logical explanation before I jumped to the idea that Don Shackelford was a deer-huntin' drug kingpin. In the big picture secreting coke in a rifle stock with your name, small change and matches does not make sense. At least not to me.
Then again, I am SRT, not a detective ;-) I lack the brain power for 'cipherin and guzintas.
Chemists... please... help us here?
Cheers,
Sirhr
