Good read thanks. Haven‘t felt the need to go all out burial yet, but do have a good spot picked out just in case…….

 

Yeah.. I like the idea as well. Thanks for sharing this link with us. 👍👍

 

I've never understood the premise. If you have to hide them, and can never retrieve, carry, use them, what is the point? People have buried treasure since humans have been around. Often someone generations later finds that treasure because the owner never came back for it or died.

 

An interesting read but it seem counter-productive to me. Like azshot says, if you can't get to them in a timely manner, what's the point?
Hiding them on public lands would make me very nervous, especially with a constantly changing landscape due to Mother Nature and human intervention. Even the author hinted at having some difficulty locating the original spot after 15 years even though he "had been keeping an eye on it."
A D9 Cat clearing land for a new subdivision or strip mall would mess things up as well.
Any "determined government goon" worth his salt would have access to a high-end metal detector at the very least and a very determined goon would have access to Ground Penetrating Radar.

 

This was ok to read . Ironic this was all done for nothing , if at all .

 

There's always been a certain allure to burying things, buried treasure etc. I would be very leery of doing something like this unless it was property I owned, comes 15-20 years and there's a Starbucks built on top of your AK. This article reminded me of the saddle ridge gold hoard about ten years back, it's an absolute screamer, some already very, very wealthy guy is strolling his 500 acre property and kicks a rock or something and comes across a 10 million dollar stash of gold coins that someone buried in the early 1900's. From wiki: "After their discovery, the couple protected their find by hiding it in an old ice chest, then burying it under a pile of wood and concealing the location. After some initial research, they contacted the numismatics firm of Kagin's in Tiburon, California, which is representing the owners." Translation: they reburied it and called their lawyers for some serious CYA, if the coins were stolen from say The US Mint, Uncle Sam would have wanted every last cent back. There never was any concrete answer on where the stash came from.

 

When you find something like this it's best to keep it to yourself for obvious reasons. Unfortunately, some people like to share too much information.

 

I bet quite a few Europeans did this exact thing after WW2. my son in law had some co workers in Texas that are serious prepped type guys. they had a area they planned on moving to if something major happened. they have food, water, ammo, medicine weapons cached for 100+ miles of west Texas. they make a run to restock and make a practice run once a year. jim

 

Supposedly, the Soviets had weapons and explosive caches buried all over the place, including the U.S, I'm highly skeptical of that. I can see it happening in Europe and there's at least one documented case in Finland, the rest are highly dubious I think.

 

I knew a dentist who thought that way, so he bought PVC pipe and dessicant bags and gathered M1s, M1 Carbines, AR15s, Springfields and a whole host of parts, web gear, survival supplies and ammunition.

He owned a couple of farms and acreages and an auger - so he and his nephew would go out and dig holes (probably by the light of the moon) - and 'somewhere', he recorded locations.

Then - he died of a heart attack - and a couple of weeks later - the nephew died in a car wreck.

It's still out there - somewhere...

 

It's still out there - somewhere...

It may be a good excuse to invest in a higher-end metal detector. 😎

 

A number of years ago I was approached by a family to help them locate a cache of money. Seems that in the past their grandfather had sold timber for something like $12,000, and put it in the local bank. The IRS came knocking wanting their share. After settling with the IRS the grandfather would draw money out of the bank in silver coins. He eventually did this with all his money, burying it as he withdrew it. He died without letting anyone know where it was, and although I helped them search several times with a metal detector never found where he hid it. The family thought he probably buried between $10 and $15 thousand dollars in silver, which would be worth from $200,000 to $300,000 today.

 

Happens all the time. Many caches have been lost and found from many generations. One that I know of was a soldier who must have been stationed at Ft Lowell in Tucson. My friend was an avid metal detectorist. He was searching in an area not that far from the fort, with giant old cottonwood trees. He found a "sign" where there shouldn't have been one and searched at the base of one tree. Buried not far down was a blue mason jar full of silver dollars, one gold coin, a tintype in a Union Case of a pretty girl....and get this: a letter from the pretty girl to him! I wouldn't have believed it but I saw it myself. Some soldier must have gotten himself killed, and the cache was lost for 140 years.