Posted on 03/16/2009 2:24:25 PM PDT by epow
Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the nation in general and gun owners in particular seemed rather grim to many people. A few years earlier in 1986, Congress had banned civilians from owning newly manufactured machine guns. There was ever more strident talk of banning semi-automatic weapons or so called assault weapons. Many of us regarded a semi-automatic rifle as the foundation of a home defense battery. Many of us believed that more laws banning ever more types of guns were imminent. About that time I acquired a Ruger Ranch Rifle through a private sale. I decided to stash it away in a safe place just in case my worst fear was to materialize, another gun ban. The general location of the pipe after the logging was done. It would have helped if I had had a better method of locating the pipe. The general location of the pipe after the logging was done. It would have helped if I had had a better method of locating the pipe.
First order of business was to decide how I would prepare the gun for long-term storage and where I would store it. I decided that for maximum security I needed to bury it. This would keep it safe from all but the most determined government goons. I set about finding an appropriate location. I live in a fairly remote, wooded rural area in the northeast. One day as I was walking in the woods I noticed a hemlock tree had blown down and been uprooted by a recent windstorm. There was a small crater about eight feet across and three feet deep where the root ball had been torn out of the ground. It occurred to me that this would be a good spot for my rifle.
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A couple of years ago you could get a well used Yugo SKS for $89.
Interesting article.
But can’t the Obama ACORN goons use metal detectors and other technology to find buried guns and ammo?
...thanks!....great article.
Bury a Gun and Ammo For 15 Years
Backwoods Home Magazine ^ | 03/16/09 | Charles Wood
Posted on Mon Mar 16 14:24:25 2009 by epow
Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the nation in general and gun owners in particular seemed rather grim to many people. A few years earlier in 1986, Congress had banned civilians from owning newly manufactured machine guns. There was ever more strident talk of banning semi-automatic weapons or so called assault weapons. Many of us regarded a semi-automatic rifle as the foundation of a home defense battery. Many of us believed that more laws banning ever more types of guns were imminent. About that time I acquired a Ruger Ranch Rifle through a private sale. I decided to stash it away in a safe place just in case my worst fear was to materialize, another gun ban. The general location of the pipe after the logging was done. It would have helped if I had had a better method of locating the pipe. The general location of the pipe after the logging was done. It would have helped if I had had a better method of locating the pipe.
First order of business was to decide how I would prepare the gun for long-term storage and where I would store it. I decided that for maximum security I needed to bury it. This would keep it safe from all but the most determined government goons. I set about finding an appropriate location. I live in a fairly remote, wooded rural area in the northeast. One day as I was walking in the woods I noticed a hemlock tree had blown down and been uprooted by a recent windstorm. There was a small crater about eight feet across and three feet deep where the root ball had been torn out of the ground. It occurred to me that this would be a good spot for my rifle.
http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/wood115.html
Mark
A gun buried in the yard is more useless than one locked up with the ammo in one room and the gun in the other. Neither are of much value when they’re actually needed.
It is a Mini-14 with a stainless steel barrel.
A thick plastic tube would probably defeat any handheld detector, but what will REALLY defeat it is the fact that any buried weapons are likely to be in the middle of hundreds or thousands of square miles of untracked wilderness. Mine would be, anyway.
But can’t the Obama ACORN goons use metal detectors and other technology to find buried guns and ammo?
Rent nail gun,aim toward ground,repeat 10,000 times. It will drive them crazy.
I think the recommendation is to bury one or two that you would be thankful that you have.
If “they” come to your door, just give them all you have. Dig up what you need after “they” have gone. It would be reckless and probably wrong to resist gun confiscation. However, it would be your civic duty to suddenly remember that you had buried that long distance scoped rifle and a 45 pistol somewhere else.
In the meantime, that compound bow you have might come in handy.
But they have to know where to look, first. Spread all kinds of pieces of metal a couple hundred yards from your cache as decoys. Also bury them in unexpected places, like on top of a fresh grave. The metal vault will defeat any metal detection equipment and if the deceased was a patriot, they won’t mind being a sentinel. And if the deceased is a anti-gun liberal, you will piss them off for eternity. Bury near or at the edge of a junkyard.
That's too funny. One can never be too prepared.
True story: A friend's grandfather was a child of the Great Depression. He was farmed out as a hired hand and abandoned by his parents. He didn't trust the government or banks. So over the years, he wrapped up all of his savings (cash, coin, gold, jewelry) in multiple, vacuum-sealed jelly jars and buried them all over his property. He worked minimum-wage jobs all of his life. He paid cash for everything through the years: property, house, cars, etc. About ten years ago, on his deathbed, he gave his wife a map to find the money. His kids had a fit, dug it all up and invested it, complaining all the while that the measly $30,000 could have been $x by now. They lost every penny of it this year in the stock market crash.
As my own Great Depression grandfather used to say, "The old man doesn't look so stupid now, does he?"
Spent casings from the range [for the metal and powder scent]
You can cheaply set up a number of 'false targets' around where you bury you hardware
A Mini-14. .223/5.56
Just be careful,the detectors now can differentiate between big and little pieces of metal.I used to own a fairly decent model that I used to “treasure hunt” with,found some cool stuff too,coins and jewelry.Not much money wise but just fun to use,sold it for spare cash though,bummer.
It would be reckless and probably wrong to resist gun confiscation...
This is where I think you might be wrong. Don’t we have far more power than we realize?
Very simple, what if everyone, EVERYONE refused to turn in their guns?
They can’t possibly jail everyone that stands UNITED.
This is what they are afraid of people doing.
Ferrous meaning Fe or Iron & steel
Non-ferrous – Aluminum, Brass
The metal detectors can distinguish between the two types
Sheet metal may be enough of an RF shield to mask whatevers underneath, but it may be useful to have several layers of cheap, flat metal to confuse the issue
Pie Tins might be a good choice – Everybody likes pie, so save the tins for a “Reverse Treasure Hunt”
If it’s time to bury them, it’s time to use them.
Good info...
Its just sad that we have to resort to such tactics in the USA.
So if he would have started investing his money in lets say 1950, even if he lost 40% of the value of it this year and last, do you think it was still wise to stick it in mason jars? If he could have Forest Gumped it, it could be worth quite a tidy sum today.
A couple of years back two guys got in the paper saying they found some cache of pre-1935 dollars under some tree roots. I think the value of it in todays dollars was over $100,000 if the money was sold to collectors. Anyway, they were bragging about how they found it, got in the news papers and on TV and then it was discovered that they did a roofing job and found it hidden in the attic when they had to repair the wood beneath the shingles. If I remember correctly, they were charged with theft and had to give the money back. Some old guy had gone to his grave never telling anyone about his stash.
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