bury guns

BURY GUNS

Hey, hey, blah, blah. Burying guns-yawn. Of course, even the simplest tasks are difficult and not very obvious when you first undertake them, and I've never buried steel before. Silver, sure. No big deal-a Ziplock bag in a plastic jar and if they still end up tarnishing, whoopie pickles. I've buried buckets of food, also no big deal. Well, okay, to be fair the second huge advantage ( after lots less people ) of living in the desert ( the third would be great night vision with the unobstructed stars ) is that the dirt stays dry. So, I don't deal with huge burial issues.

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If you are back in the East, you do have to beware of wet clay or standing water. Of course, the old French dudes settling lower Canada had near swamps in a lot of places and they introduced us to caches ( at least the term, if not the practice ), and they were successful without plastics, so stop your bellyaching. My take on this is as follows. In the desert, I can probably get away without rigid waterproof pipe. Back east, probably not. The go to answer for caches always used to be PVC pipe, but a curious thing happened ten years ago when oil spiked to near $150 a barrel.

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Plastic got stupid expensive. And, it never really honest injun came down to were it should be if you just go by the cost of petroleum. Most likely, this mirrored the RV industry. Everyone consolidated and got a near monopoly and said Hump The Consumer, and quality crashed as prices spiked. Remember our talk about the Hammer Test on PVC pipe? Due to quality issues, you must test each brand. Set the pipe on a solid surface, and hit it with a steel hammer, hard. The good plastic will see the hammer bounce off. The craptastic plastic will crack.

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Anyway, you might possibly still get away with using crappy plastic just for burial. The test was from a guy that was talking about PVC pipe for use in archery. I just felt is was good to remind you of this, as knowledge is never wasted. But to continue, if you use a 4” PVC pipe, the fittings will be affordable. About $25 for the pipe and fittings for a six foot section. But if you go up to a six inch pipe, you are looking at about $40 just in the caps!!! Suck my junk and call me a lollipop, that is ridiculous and I don't feel like being violated in such a manner ( the lollipop part is okay, not the financial sodomy ).

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You can buy a ( 10 inch? ) monovault ( TankBarn.com ) for about the same cost of a 6” PVC pipe with caps. Call it a minimum of $100. I'm not saying protecting your gun isn't worth it. I'm saying, these fools are selling you pipes or vaults assuming you are burying intact guns. Why are you unable to partially disassemble your rifle? Are you REALLY going to sit there and tell me that you are going to be chased through the wilderness, dogs baying and Rebel Yells bouncing off the canyon walls, and need an intact weapon ready to go?

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You need time to find the spot, then to dig it up. Are you saying that you'll be unmolested while you dig it up, but not while you are fastening a few screws? If you disassemble the gun, which you in theory know how to do so you can clean it, you don't need such huge burial units. You can stick with 4” at a more reasonable price ( in theory ), with any furniture slightly bigger possibly going into a plastic bucket. And I'm not sure if I'd feel comfortable with some of my guns JUST covered in regular oil.

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They sell bags made especially for burying guns ( HERE ). You insert the oxygen absorber inside and seal it up and done. I'd feel comfortable with newer guns just wearing a coat of gun oil. But my older more ancient weapons I'd want a thick coat of axle grease. A small tub of the grease is $5 at the auto parts store, and a gallon of mineral spirits shouldn't be too much more ( you can use kerosene also-just have whatever already on hand so you aren't using gasoline or something else you salvaged ). I'm going to be using my vacuum sealer ( if it is still working, after 15 years stored ) instead of the Mylar bag, OR, I'll use one in the other, if I have space in the pipe.

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Vacuum sealer bags are NOT expensive. Not like they were pre-Amazon ( HERE ). I'd double bag it, for just a buck more ( 17cents a foot ). You just need something to keep the rocks off the bag. In one YouTube video, the guy burying in the desert wrapped it in a old yoga mat. I wonder if that plastic cardboard would work ( polypropylene )? Again, probably not for you folks in wetter climes. Did I mention I usually feel superior that I live in the desert and you don't? Since Europeans introduced sheep and goats, not a bad place to get away from the heathen masses.

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I like the idea of horizontal burial. For one thing, hiking off into the desert with a post hole digger isn't exactly all ninja stealthy. For another, I'm getting long enough on the tooth ( 55 is just a few months away ) that I don't know how well I could dig down through hard clay and rock. My B-POD was no easy dig ( even when I was a young stud ), and that was the softest patch of dirt on my acre. Other digs bottomed out at a foot and a half in near concrete like conditions. Just enough for buckets. Too near the surface for vertical burial ( and there is no way to tell what conditions you are digging into ).

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So, simply, you oil up your gun parts, throw them in a Mylar or vacuum seal bag, add oxygen absorbers, and then add to a PVC pipe and bucket. If you can't fit into a pipe, and want to chance that, the bag, in another one, which is then wrapped in a couple of garbage bags which is wrapped in a yoga mat or plastic cardboard forming a tube ( with the sides overlapping and taped shut to prevent rocks or pebbles from intruding ).

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Dig down as far as you can, but don't pick an obvious campfire or latrine spot. Do NOT rely on a GPS to mark the spot. If you must, make a map, which is then hidden in a vacuum seal bag in a plastic food jar which is buried closer in a more familiar spot. Do NOT assume you will remember where you buried the cache. Not unless you go to that spot regularly camping and can keep refreshing your memory. Memory works by repetition, the neural pathways reinforced as if they were muscles being exercised.

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I've watched vids on year and a half old guns and fifteen year old burials being unearthed and rust free. For a good site for reading about this, go to HERE . This is the next project after my soymeal. After the theft by crackheads at the B-POD, and after Orange Bitch supported Red Flagging, I'm burying almost everything ( ammo is buried just like guns, but without the oil, obviously ). As a bonus, I'll start hiking the wilderness again ( well, semi-wilderness ) which might get me interested in camping ( although no promises ). Getting shaken out of my rut will do me good.

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