Sunday, April 6, 2014

You'd think the prohibitionists....

...would get the message. Well, maybe they'll get it through the ballot box in 2014.
Posted by kahr40 at 5:30 PM
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Anonymous said...

Hiding ‘Treasure’
Gun grabbing abounds these days, and while its said that the time to bury guns is the time to dig them up doesn't mean that one can't hide just some so that confiscation becomes a futile gesture.
The best method to determine how to hide something is to take the viewpoint of those that would be looking for “Treasure.” Someone looking to find what has been hidden away would most likely look at each one’s personal situation.
Do you have a lot of property or do you live in the city? [Note: The ownership of your property is a matter of public record]
What type of dwelling do you have? Does it have hide-a-way places like basements or crawlspaces?
These are all questions that someone looking for your treasure would ask at the beginning of their search to figure out how many options you have to stash things away.
Search methods.
Once someone has determined where one might keep their stuff, the next step will be to directly search for it. One has to examine any possible search methods to develop strategies to keep things hidden away.
Searches may simply use their eyes to look for disturbed earth or other indications or resort to some specialty tools.
Metal detectors.
Most detectors can distinguish between ferrous and non-ferrous materials, so it’s important that a mix of both types are used, or at least that one uses similar metals. Ferrous metals for ferrous treasure vice-versa for non-ferrous.
There are really only two ways of avoiding this search method. That would be placing these items out of reach or having sufficient extraneous metal items in the area to render this method useless.
Since it is difficult to know the detection range of this search method, by default the is only one method to keep items safe from prying induction.
It would be best to borrow the concept of defense in depth here – instead of having one size and one type of extraneous material; it would be preferable to have different sizes and types of these materials.
The first type would be small metallic objects that can be spread around the area as a way of masking the true treasure. Small so it is nearly impossible for a potential searcher to sufficiently extract them from the search area, but large enough to be picked up by the detector. While some detectors can filter out junk signals from individual pieces, a fair number of pieces will at least serve to collectively confuse the issue.
This is also one of the easiest things to implement – all that is required are metallic bits and they just need to be thrown or scattered about the area that is to be masked.How to Hide The next type are medium to large sized pieces that will throw off the search – pieces of junk, old cans of various metallic composition, etc. While these objects may be large enough to be extracted, they will still bog down the search and protect the treasure.
The final type would be ‘Simulated’ treasure – items big enough to arouse interest by both metal and ground penetrating radar searches.
Canine search.
We can only speculate on what exactly these dogs are searching for. But, the best guess would that they are either following a trail someone would take to their cache or they are searching for the gases and such emanating from the cache.
We’ve already discussed the tracking of a person to their treasure – again if this is on their property or a place where they normally hang out, their scent will be in the area so it won’t be that unusual and therefore may not be as useful to the treasure hunters.
Timing is everything here – if one can sequester their treasure and leave it alone for at least several days it will be difficult for canine searchers to track to the cache. Especially if it’s in an area they normally occupy. The strategy here would be to hide the cache and then make it habit to walk around in the area to saturate it with their scent.
In the case of having to suddenly stash in their cache it would be best to have been present in the area ahead of time to throw things off in the case of a search.

April 15, 2014 at 3:04 PM
Anonymous said...

Ground penetrating radar
The last method they may use would be some form of ground penetrating radar. This method would be very slow, so it stands to reason that someone using this form would wish to narrow down the search area. The methods here would be similar to keeping things safe from the other methods – widening out the potential search area and having other objects to confuse the issue.
Where to hide things Inside a home or other structure
Here the key is to look for voids or areas in a dwelling that are normally hollow and could contain hidden ‘gems’ in a structure or in movable objects.
False walls and floors could be created but these can be found out with simple measuring tools and making them is just extra unnecessary work when these spaces are already present.
Crawl spaces normally do not have floors so burying something there would work
Now, the basement ceiling presents several options – they have naturally have spaces between the joists, there is structure around these spaces to provide support and there is a great deal of this space present in you home making a lot less obvious where your items may be. Heating and cooling ducts are a good choice as long as one beefs up the supporting external structure and contained to keep out moisture dust etc. for the items.
First and second floors as with the basement, the floors and walls will have normal hollow spaces in which to stealthy ensconce items, in the case of walls the big factor will be access – this will entail the need to open up the wall and then be able to close it up some it isn’t obvious there is an opening.
Outside and Above ground
The concepts on hollow spaces in floors, walls, and ceiling of a house are equally applicable to sheds and other out buildings. The best way to find a hiding spaces in other places it to apply the same idea of finding hollow spaces that aren’t out of place like certain types of fence posts or the obvious choice in this regard – hollow trees.
One last note that hidden treasure is useless if it can’t be found again – so plans have to be made to find it again.

April 15, 2014 at 3:06 PM

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