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Bury a Gun and Ammo For 15 Years
Backwoods Home Magazine ^ | 03/16/09 | Charles Wood

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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To: wolfcreek
You can do this close to your home. Keep some, hide the rest. If TSHTF, you don't want to risk all being confiscated. Keep 2-3 to hand over. Tell them you lost or sold the rest(if they are aware of them). Then go get the others. We know one guy that has them hidden in 5 different places so he has a constant supply. He's sure the zer0 administration is coming for them eventually and he is an avid collector and has been for years. I would guess he probably has a 300K collection. Some beautiful old very collectible ones as well as many new ones. He has a Colt 45 with Ivory handles that is one of the nicest guns I've ever seen. It fits my hand like a glove.
61 posted on 03/16/2009 5:45:37 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder & America is dying.)
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To: cornfedcowboy

Rent nail gun,aim toward ground,repeat 10,000 times. I
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LOL, I see others have figured this little trick out too.


62 posted on 03/16/2009 5:47:17 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder & America is dying.)
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To: Palladin

But can’t the Obama ACORN goons use metal detectors and other technology to find buried guns and ammo?
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I think it’s useless to hide them on your property. Hide them off property. Dig deep,6-7 feet. There is no way in hell they can scour every square foot of barren land and they won’t. They will hope people turn them over, they make search your home and property. Do you have any idea how much manpower it would take to even cover every square foot of ONE neighborhood with a metal detector?


63 posted on 03/16/2009 5:55:10 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder & America is dying.)
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To: Twinkie

GPS and a map drawing of the area. It’s not that hard.


64 posted on 03/16/2009 5:57:01 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder & America is dying.)
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To: 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.
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Agree and we would also like to be able to defend ourselves and our loved ones.


65 posted on 03/16/2009 5:58:55 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder & America is dying.)
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To: Eagles6

The “Ranch” model is the same with a stainless steel barrel.


66 posted on 03/16/2009 6:07:22 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is the belief that most people are better off if everyone was equally poor and miserable.)
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To: snowrip

Thanks! All these tips are very useful.


67 posted on 03/16/2009 6:46:07 PM PDT by Palladin (April 15 is coming. Release your inner tax cheat. Be a Geithner.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Good and useful information!


68 posted on 03/16/2009 6:47:43 PM PDT by Palladin (April 15 is coming. Release your inner tax cheat. Be a Geithner.)
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To: Sarisky

Good advice! I have lots of pie tins.


69 posted on 03/16/2009 6:51:23 PM PDT by Palladin (April 15 is coming. Release your inner tax cheat. Be a Geithner.)
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To: 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.”

Good thinking. I am getting lots of good ideas on this thread.

Guess I’ll be doing some extra digging this spring.


70 posted on 03/16/2009 6:53:43 PM PDT by Palladin (April 15 is coming. Release your inner tax cheat. Be a Geithner.)
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To: William Tell

We will need central gathering places that are fortified.

Yes, forts!


71 posted on 03/16/2009 6:55:58 PM PDT by Palladin (April 15 is coming. Release your inner tax cheat. Be a Geithner.)
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To: mojitojoe

“we would also like to be able to defend ourselves and our loved ones.”

...just like the patriots who founded this great country...


72 posted on 03/16/2009 6:57:03 PM PDT by Palladin (April 15 is coming. Release your inner tax cheat. Be a Geithner.)
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To: omega4179

That too.

Never hurts to have options.


73 posted on 03/16/2009 7:06:24 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (Warning: Sarcasm/humor is always engaged. Failure to recognize this may lead to misunderstandings.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Correct. I was just commenting on the model.


74 posted on 03/16/2009 7:51:36 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
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To: Blood of Tyrants; Dionysius
It is a Mini-14 with a stainless steel barrel.

Umm - slightly different receiver, IIRC. It incorporated Ruger scope mount bases and ditched the military-type rear sight in favor of a simpler design.

75 posted on 03/16/2009 8:15:38 PM PDT by Charles Martel ("Endeavor to persevere...")
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To: epow
I sure wish we were just getting a bit paranoid, but that isn't the case now, is it?
76 posted on 03/16/2009 8:34:29 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Since Obama Bin Lyin, the Economy Bin Dyin...)
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To: Charles Martel
...[the Ranch Rifle has a] slightly different receiver, IIRC. It incorporated Ruger scope mount bases and ditched the military-type rear sight in favor of a simpler design.

Bingo. And the ejector is modified to kick the empty cases to the side, so they won't hit the scope (if you're using one). Disassembly for cleaning is a bit different for that reason, IIRC...

77 posted on 03/16/2009 8:53:29 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("Sometimes I have to break the law in order to meet my management objectives." - Bill Calkins, BLM)
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To: cornfedcowboy

American ingenuity at it’s best!


78 posted on 03/16/2009 9:02:20 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty (Democrats are bastard coated bastards with bastard filling.)
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To: TheConservativeParty

Live Free or Die


79 posted on 03/16/2009 9:08:13 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty (Democrats are bastard coated bastards with bastard filling.)
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To: 2ndClassCitizen
It would be reckless and probably wrong to resist gun confiscation.

It would be risky no doubt, but never wrong. Although, I am not sure you meant "wrong" in that context, did you?

80 posted on 03/16/2009 9:12:45 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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