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

[mojitojoe]

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.

[mojitojoe]

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.

[mojitojoe]

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?

[mojitojoe]

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

[mojitojoe]

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.

[Blood of Tyrants]

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

[Palladin]

Thanks! All these tips are very useful.

[Palladin]

Good and useful information!

[Palladin]

Good advice! I have lots of pie tins.

[Palladin]

“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.

[Palladin]

We will need central gathering places that are fortified.

Yes, forts!

[Palladin]

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

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

[Dr.Zoidberg]

That too.

Never hurts to have options.

[Eagles6]

Correct. I was just commenting on the model.

[Charles Martel]

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.

[Kickass Conservative]

I sure wish we were just getting a bit paranoid, but that isn't the case now, is it?

[Who is John Galt?]

...[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...

[TheConservativeParty]

American ingenuity at it’s best!

[TheConservativeParty]

Live Free or Die

[ChildOfThe60s]

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?