I'm going on my daily scav on streets just checking out whats up, meet a few friendly scavs, then suddenly I hear all hell break loose. I pick up my trusty SKS and head to the shots. I see a PMC throwing a grenade at another. I hold my breath and steady my aim. Drop him dead in 1 shot. I hear a few more footsteps but they're far. Must be another PMC. I quickly throw on a dead guy's kit and use his SR-25. We exchange some shots but I eventually kill him unscathed, hitting him in the chest 4 times with M62.
To my surprise I see 7 bodies all geared to the teeth, the best rifles in the game, all modded out with meta attachments. A few even have thermals. M995. SP-6. M61. BP. All the best of the best.
And then I see it. A level 4 PMC, with a raid bag. With a thermal on his gun with stacks of the best ammo in the game, amongst other high level gear. They were probably real money trading with these guys, and I just stopped them.
There was too. Much. Loot. I even hit a limit on the quad-nvgs (didn't even know there was one of 5) and I had to drop so much ammo and extra attachments I didn't need.
When in doubt and if you can run it, go streets.