Hiding a gun: The rules of three

Backwoods Home Magazine ^ | March/April 2013 | Claire Wolfe

[LibWhacker]

My friend Jack pulled the car into a grassy clearing. We donned rubber boots, fetched a metal detector and digging tools from the trunk, and headed off along a game trail. Our mission: To dig up and test fire a pistol Jack had buried years ago.

The trail disappeared into a wetland, which Jack crossed with confidence. The muddy water was only about six inches deep where he walked, but I couldn't see the bottom so I waded gingerly after him. It was at this point I discovered that my borrowed waterproof boots — weren't. I squished along after Jack. By the time I emerged onto dry land, he was standing well ahead of me, next to the stump of an old cedar that had been logged a hundred years ago.

"It's buried right here," Jack told me confidently. "Between this stump and that sapling."

I was dubious. The "sapling" wasn't exactly a sapling anymore. It had grown into a mid-sized alder tree. Besides, Jack had history with not being able to relocate a buried firearm. Back in 2004, I had mocked him in one of my Backwoods Home Hardyville columns for that very thing, an SKS he couldn't relocate.

Nevertheless, he set to breaking up roots. I followed with a shovel.

"I didn't bury it very deep," he said. "We shouldn't have too much trouble."

[CodeToad]

It is also idiocy for anyone, including SWAT, to think they can attack two porches. Once, probably, but the second time it is a trap.

[Jane Long]

I just wanted you to know you’d been quoted ;)

[LibWhacker]

It's idiocy to think that folks are going to wait at home on their porch to get whacked.

But they are. They have no specific plans. None.

So you're going to "MOVE" with your guns? That's nice. Wouldn't work for me.

[JRandomFreeper]

Wasn't me. Some other bloke.

Including the previous line in this post. (Time Enough for Love {RAH}) if I recall correctly. ;)

I steal all my best material except for kitchen and mountain stories. Those are mostly true and don't include messy details like whazzerface's dad showing up mid-shift and finding her in the linen closet with Jose.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

I move through my AO all the time. Meet and greet some days, just a shadow some nights. Only time I sit on a porch, I have a banjo in my lap, and shooting me might just be legal in Texas.

I don't pace a small cage.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

Today, the junior NCO fresh from deployment briefly returned home next door to me.

4 times, I opened the door right before he knocked. There is no peep-hole in the door.

Freaked him right out. He did ask how. Points for that.

I did tell him it would be explained in senior NCO classes, should he live that long. Along with the rest of the sergeant secrets. ;)

It's good to be an old bastard.

/johnny

[CodeToad]

“To be old and wise one must first survive being young and stupid.”

[JRandomFreeper]

That's the hard part. It tends to hurt. Badly.

Expensive tuition.

/johnny

[deks]

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

[Red Steel]

The Russian GLONASS is also available.

[tomkat]

Look at my sign up date. I don't actually read the articles, I sometimes read the summaries.
Generally I read the headlines and make a smart-ass comment.

+1

I've also been known to throw in a tangentially related graphic now and again.
But sometimes they're apropos of absolutely nothing relevant.

             

[JRandomFreeper]

"Stroll in, move left, grab a bag and walk out. It's that easy."

"Dude! I'm a frigging bird."

"Trust me. No one will notice except for the feds in the van across the street."

"What feds?"

/johnny

[tomkat]

I guess it's kinda goofy, but that gif gets me every time !

Thanks for the impetus/excuse to post him (again ;-)

[PLMerite]

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[JRandomFreeper]

Meh. I've got the night off. "There are no cats in America" is on the play list.

If a grown man can't play soundtrack from Fivel in the US, something is seriously wrong with the country.

It's a catchy tune.

Same for the motion GIFs. Guys gotta be guys.

/johnny

[ozzymandus]

I have access to some land adjacent to my own that will never be disturbed, and I can reach it without being seen by anybody. If I was going to stash a cache, that’s where I’d dig.

[Red Steel]

Your link about the “Most Downloaded Items Last Week” are interesting subjects from military manual collection... Heh.

[GenXteacher]

“Fixed defenses are for rich people and governments.”

That, and it is generally sound policy to carry the fight to the enemy.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Thanks, I completely forgot about GLONASS. Anyone preparing for a SHTF scenario might want to consider getting a receiver that works for both GPS and GLONASS. The Russians are less likely than the Europeans to degrade their signal, in the event the U.S. government asks them to.

However, I would be greatly surprised if the U.S.A doesn’t have the capability of degrading, or completely blocking any system it wants, anytime it wants to.

[sergeantdave]

“It’s pure delusion to think one can fight off a SWAT team from the safety of one’s porch.”

If you elect a constitutional sheriff in your county, the SWAT team will never get to its intended target.