My first carrier purchase led to tips and stories of several more in the area. Some I did go out and find, including one tip of 2 or 3 (turned out to be 5) on the north shore of a lake. There were lots of good parts from those ones, and that story has been told before.
When I was towing my first one home, I stopped at a gas station/restaurant for a meal. When I came out there were two old guys waiting there. One had stories which rang of BS.....he told of carriers abandoned, complete with their 50 cals, at the end of the war at an old POW camp nearby. I never bothered to chase that one down....the army does not abandon either vehicles or machine guns out of convenience. But the other guys stories were more intriguing. His Dad's old logging camp had two complete carriers which were abandoned back in 49. These ones are way out of the way. I have tried a few times to make it up that way, and have confirmation that they are in the area, but somewhat hidden. Apparently they are full armor. Google earth map checks show clearcut logging operations have got to within 5 or 10 miles of them. We almost went in this year, but I was just getting over a miserable flu, so it will have to wait until either the fall or next year. The bush is extremely heavy in this area, and you can walk right by stuff and never see it.
Good luck on your search. Be sure and check around the area where the carrier is found. Often the logging camps would remove stuff that got in the way like grenade boxes or antenna brackets, and discard them in the bush, where they will still be waiting. Also, be sure to take some pictures of your finds....maybe they will get the fire going in me enough to make the daylong drive to go look for these ones.
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