/johnny
A couple of years ago, a farmer found an SKS buried in PVC tubing. It was washed out of the ground by a storm and came to rest in a field. The finder turned it in to the sheriff, and the local paper ran the story, but for some strange reason nobody claimed it. I have doubts about the whole “bury your guns” thing. Wouldn’t you be better off keeping them close to hand in such a scenario?
For Pete’s sake, I am becoming(?) paranoid. I read the whole article and I took notes. Zombie apocalypse, here I come.
I few things I would add to this.
Your metal parts may be in fine condition, but if the stock is ruined, you have a problem.
Always consider “biologicals”, like ants, termites, and larger animals.
If someone is using a metal detector, it is likely you are already a suspect, so all security measures should be in effect.
Deception pays. If they dig up 6’ of dirt over a hundred square foot area and find just enough non-incriminating evidence to do that, they will have likely lost their taste for digging.
Planned disappointment is the best. Imagine digging down 6’, because the metal detectors say “big metal” is down there. Then finding a large, non-functional safe bought cheap, with its door welded shut. Then, after they painstakingly open it, they discover only compost, 2” of nasty black water, and a few pounds of very fetid pork grease. Very demotivational.
The article didn’t mention one potentially huge problem with relying on GPS: deliberate signal degradation.
GPS signals available to civilians were intentionally degraded everywhere, until about 2000. They are still degraded in active war zones, to deny the use to the enemy. (The military has the algorithms needed to get the accurate signals.)
In the event that a civilian resistance is needed — the government can (and most likely will) degrade GPS signals. The “rule of three” sounds like good advice.
BTW, in a few years, the EU’s “Galileo” system should be fully operational. It may be that getting a GPS receiver capable of reading Galileo signals would be a viable alternative to using the U.S. GPS system (unless the EU also degrades the Galileo signals). Both systems would be able to use the same coordinates as input.
Locating the pistol reminded me of my “survey” days, years ago (before electronic measurements). We were looking for old Section corners in generally flat barren land.
We’d chain out from found corners or just guesstimate a location and start digging. The monument was normally a 2” iron pipe set in concrete about 18” below grade.
When we reached about 3 feet deep and diameter, we would start sluffing in the perimeter of the hole. WHOOP, THERE IT IS!
One of the desk jockeys asked how we found those corners. I said: “Sometimes you get lucky. Sometimes you just pull it out of your rear.”
How to Hide ‘Treasure’ just in case…….
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2772821/posts
No joke-—no lie-—not a metaphor. I need a conservative man with a gun. I know nothing about guns and I’m very afraid of being without either. Would prefer to have both.
kg/nancy
One rule learned the hard way: If you’re going to bury it deep, make sure it’s somewhere you can get at with a backhoe. It may be in the ground longer than you expect. What took me two hours to bury when I was 36 took me eight hours to dig up when I was 55.
Special Forces Caching Techniques [military manual TC 31-29/A]
links to various available formats on left side. . .
http://archive.org/details/milmanual-tc-31-29-special-forces-—caching-techniques
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