Bury a Gun and Ammo For 15 Years

Backwoods Home Magazine ^ | 03/16/09 | Charles Wood

[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.

Since I

[Rebelbase]

Cheapest one I saw at a gun show last month was $300.

[investigateworld]

And if the deceased is a anti-gun liberal, you will piss them off for eternity

LOL !! Excellent!

[tacticalogic]

Also bury them in unexpected places, like on top of a fresh grave.

I was thinking under a beehive might be good.

[Twinkie]

Hah. If I buried anything, much less a gun even if I had one, I’d never be able to find it again.

[verity]

I buried something but I do not remember what or where. lol

[BuckeyeTexan]

He didn’t have any money to invest in 1950. He worked minimum-wage jobs, paid cash for everything, and was finally able to start saving only a few years before he passed. (All of it was SS income minus monthly expenses.)

Could he have been smarter? Sure. But now the money’s gone and precisely for the reasons he imagined.

[Billthedrill]

LOL! Yeah. Me too.

[Fred911]

I spent too much time working on my SKS to bury it in the back yard......

[Dionysius]

Thanks. I’ve always liked the mini-14. It reminded me of the M14 which was the best rifle I ever fired in the army. I wish I had picked one up for a couple of hundred when I had the chance (I feel that it would have been most comforting now).

[Eye of Unk]

I would bury several dozen of those high powered super magnets along with a couple rolls of pennies to mimic bullets, maybe toss in some fishing weights. And just to get more imaginative do the pipe bit but just use some 4’ ABS about a foot long with caps, toss all the above in and glue it up.

Bury these as another poster commented in obvious places, make sure they are upright in case a portable ground radar is used.

To shield the real deal I would make a shield of a rubber mud flap that could have something dense like spraying it with glue and throwing a layer of lead shot on it, or get some lead foil. Having it under a tree is an excellent idea.

Course anything said here and now is being noted so be adaptable.

[Plutarch]

I note that locating the burial was difficult. One way to overcome some of these problems would be to use an airtight burial vault (designed to protect caskets), designed to be sealed for 100 years.

[Eye of Unk]

This is for the alphabets, all we talk and all our actions is not to be against America, its to save America from usurpation and tyranny, America WAS the land of the free, we could use a little help getting it back that way you know.

[William Tell]

pantherskincreek said: "They can’t possibly jail everyone that stands UNITED."

I think the poster was suggesting that one not resist at the moment that the enemy is at the door. Tactically, it's the wrong time and place to fight. There's too high a probability that you will sacrifice your life or freedom without causing the enemy any discomfort. If it is truly the last chance to fight, then you have to do it.

[omega4179]

Or an option after they knock your door down at 3am and take everything.

[Sarisky]

ROFLMAO !!!!!

[Who is John Galt?]

>>SKSs were the weapon of choice, because you could get them for $50.<<

Dang! I paid $105 for mine!

Spent enough time working on mine (Chicom version) that I was satisfied that it wouldn't fire when you released the safety (as it did to me - ain't that exciting?), and then sold it cheap. Couldn't trust it, ever - or any other Chicom firearm (including the heavy-barrel AK my local gun emporium had in stock, with the magazine permanently jammed in place - wasn't that a sight... ;>)

[Uhaul]

"If “they” come to your door, just give them all you have."

Sorry - screw that. If they come to my door they wont be leaving. If there are any LEO's reading this. As a group, I love you, I respect what you do (mostly), most of you are the salt of the earth. But if you come for my weapons I am going to kill you.

[sergeantdave]

Why would people bury a necessary tool?

[dmcnash]

Very simple, what if everyone, EVERYONE refused to turn in their guns?

It would probably follow the Pareto principle (aka 80-20 rule) with 80% failing to comply as is estimated to be the compliance percentage for NYC gun laws.

Read the following for an academic discussion.

IMAGINING GUN CONTROL IN AMERICA:
UNDERSTANDING THE REMAINDER PROBLEM
http://lawreview.law.wfu.edu/documents/issue.43.837.pdf

[JohnD9207]

It would be reckless and probably wrong to resist gun confiscation
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