Posted on 12/13/2020 10:48:54 AM PST by Blueflag
From a friend via a copy-pasted email thread
Many of you you have asked how safely store what we'll call "the modern sporting rifle" for the long term. Particularly let's focus on storage in what we'll euphemistically call "environmentally exposed" locations.
The typical answer has been to liberally coat the firearm in some sort of viscous grease (last generally sold in the Korean War era) that can take an hour to get off if the firearm is needed/desired for use, and place all the parts in various bags inside a large diameter PVC Schedule 40 or better pipe, with threaded caps.
Well, that'll certainly do the trick.
But let me suggest a simpler method, one that works for pistols as well: The 11" wide roll of Food Saver bags (ON THE 14' ROLL) and some silica gel packs. Clean and oil your firearm, place them in a proper length of Food Saver roll (having already sealed one end) add a liberal supply of silica gel packs and O2 absorbent if you have it, and then vacuum seal the bag. Then vacuum seal THAT gun-bag inside a second custom-length Food Saver bag. Be careful to not over-vacuum the bag or sharpish edges of your firearm can puncture the bag.
For an AR-platform rifle, you need to separate the upper and lower, and create two sealed bag-units. Double bag the upper, and separately double-bag the lower. Your bagged and protected firearm (long or short gun) is now ready for storage 'wherever'. Sure it'd be better to place the bagged unit in a PVC tube if you planned to bury it, but you may not be able to or need to bury items for your storage needs.
The upside of this method is that (a) it's cheap if you already have a vacuum sealer food storage system (like Food Saver) (b) you can store any modern sporting firearm or pistol - often dissembled, (c) ammo boxes (not the cans - be reasonable- also handle this really well, and (d) your firearm is ready to use in a couple minutes from removing it out of the bags - versus MANY minutes to get all that grease off a firearm.
It's especially easy to store a grab-and-go pistol kit: the pistol, extra mags 80% loaded for spring durability, and a box of 50 or 100 rounds.
Note well, the bags are not designed to handle friction from rubbing/moving. They're pretty tough, but if you have a bagged unit bouncing around in the bottom our your pick-up's tool box, it'll be torn in a month. Wrap it appropriately if you HAVE to store the unit where friction may come into play, and inspect frequently.
This may help you if you are considering ways to safely store 'items' for a while.
The BATFE has been illegally copying the records of FFL dealers for decades.
I really don’t have an expectation of surviving such an encounter, should it take place. So that isn’t going to be a problem.
I have heard that a good spot to hide guns is actually up in trees.
If someone comes around with a metal detector, then can pick up what’s buried, although, with the amount of trash the original owners of our property left, they be picking up just that and finally give up after all the false alarms.
Anyways,t he idea is that they will be hidden or disguised at branches and nobody looks UP for guns.
There’s not another house behind us for 3 miles - all woods. They could search for years and never find anything.
Bkmk.
If it’s time to start burying your guns, it’s time to dig them up.
The local Mormon pantry will can ammo in cans of any size you want for very little money. Cheaper than an military ammo box.
You got good idears, but fill me in on what to do bout the red squirrels??????????????
Sixty million Americans think Biden ‘won’ with the help of democrat voter fraud.
It’s not a small number of people...
Or there is the complete submersion of dipping the entire thing in cosmo like the old mil surplus that use to be available at Big 5. Even after 10 years of shooting and cleaning that old Mosin Nagant Cosmo still seeped out.
The Vaseline brand has gone all BLM support. I you buy petroleum jelly, do not give Vaseline the business.
Here is the offensive Vaseline commercial:
Consider a scenario where the author has more than one, and is simply placing some of the armory in a safer location.
Do not consider the author unwise or unprepared.
I know the author. ;-)
Bingo!
Precisely.
The author is quite experienced with cosmoline (hates it) and food bags. In fact the author only buy$ Food Saver brand bag$, despite the cost, due to seal failures with others.
Metal detectors are easily spoofed by random placement of junk in the yard. Imagine barn area or an equipment shed. Only ground penetrating radar looking in exactly the right spot would find a cache.
We’re in a similar situation.
Stew?
Good idea I guess........
But if I have to start burying my weapons, F@#$ that! It’s time to use them.
Bury and hide your weapons for a rainy day?
If you’re considering burying or hiding your rights, IT IS A RAINY DAY!
For better insight read Resistance to Tyranny by Joseph Martino.
There’s reason to have fallback inventory.
The real life situation is more complex than bury versus use.
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