Why not have caches?

70 year old saboteur cache looks like it was buried yesterday (17 PHOTOS)
(70 year old saboteur cache looks like it was buried yesterday (17 PHOTOS))





more photos at link

 

Decades-Old Weapons Cache Discovered at School Construction Site

(Decades-Old Weapons Cache Discovered at School Construction Site)



During the years that preceded the 1948 war, kibbutz members hid guns and grenades near their homes to defend against attacks by Arab gunmen. Over the years, as the veterans have died one by one, none ever revealed where the weapons were stashed, Israel’s Channel 10 reported.

 

A search of the web shows that "Metal detector-ist" hobby types uncover buried caches all of the time.

Everything from $10 million in gold coins (California) to massive caches of (Roman) silver coins (Brits)

I would imagine buried caches are a crap shoot, at best.

 

It doesn't deter treasure hunters armed with metal detectors though.

Under clothes lines and around old dwellings can be productive places to search.

 

I'm sure that's true, but if mine last 70 years I did a good job..
Obviously I feel caches have their place. If someone else doesn't, cool, don't go to the trouble. IMO, the keys to a successful cache are location, proper prep and finish work, and a meticulous attention to detail.

 

Add to that, documenting the location and route to the cache, security when approaching and establishing the cache site, and when accessing and withdrawing from the cache. Camouflage, concealment, deception, counter surveillance and counter tracking are all important elements of preventing and avoiding the cache being compromised. OPSEC is of course essential.

http://cnqzu.com/library/Anarchy Fo... Movement and Counter-Tracking Techniques.pdf

 

The beauty of Australia is we have far less of a population to be out wandering around in the woods. There remains places here along the east coast that see next to no human traffic and certainly zero carrying around a metal detector. Conversely that means accessing those areas is also somewhat difficult. That said even around the capitol cities there are relatively easily accessed areas that could be used. Hell the local Jihad types have apparently burred a bunch of M72s around the south of Sydney and no one has turned them up yet, including the Police and Military our with the latest kit.

 

Oh and yes...I am very glad to see the OP of this thread has been flushed to the sewer he belongs... !

 

Ok My best friend and old rookie partner ended up in northern Ca his last few year of work. Big fire came thru. The calls came in about the cashes found by the fire fighters. Large ammo Cashes, and other stuff belonging to those who have no faith in the future,

 

That is something to think on, and something I've honestly not considered. The caches I've placed are at what I feel is a fairly deep depth, but not so deep that a dozer cutting a fire line might unearth them. It's a possibility I suppose. It would be interesting to find out the average depth that most of the discovered caches were placed at.

 

His first mistake was to assume Bugging in is a mistake.
We bugged out in 2008 and are living the survival life NOW.

I buried a couple Marlin glenfield 60 rifles in 8 inch pvc tubes. Years ago. They are still there. Both were oil soaked and wrapped in oil rags. Each has 500 rounds. with it. Been there since 2000.

 

I dug up one of mine this am.
Started out about 15"deep but about a year ago one of my cou-zans ran over my cache spot with a very large track hoe.
Ended up at least 18" deep.
Tomorrow I'll check the contents and see how 2 year's buried has changed the contents or not.

 

How can you tell which cache is yours? Just use one of these stickers to identify it:

Now everybody else knows they don't belong to them...

Stickers are $5.25 per sheet:
Biohazard! Sticker
Radiation Hazard Sticker

 

You evil minded man! I like how you think.