Some Timely Green Accessories

4 Responses to Some Timely Green Accessories

1. Armeggedon Rex says:

   March 17, 2009 at 12:12 pm

   I spent 20 years in the military, and I don’t recognize them. What are those things?
2. David says:

   March 17, 2009 at 4:31 pm

   When I was a kid my dad had an old surplus black-powder canister that kinda looked like those things, but it was a shiny silvery color instead of green. It was about four feet tall and about six or eight inches across, so it could be used (I suppose) to hold one rifle and some ammo.
3. Rivrdog says:

   March 17, 2009 at 10:23 pm

   They are some sort of artillery charge holders. 155mm arty probably. My local Army surplus outfit has them in a clip of 40 or so that is made to go into a hatch on a self-propelled howitzer (with the aid of a forklift).

   They appear no longer than 28″ or so, and are probably too short to store a rifle in, but that was MY first thought as well. Maybe you could use two, one for the stock (minus any pistol grip) and one for the action and barrel.

   Maybe some form of AR would take down and fit into them, but all my battle rifles are 7.62X51, and none of them would go into such a tube. A Remington Patrol Rifle (.223 pump which takes AR magazines) would probably go in if the stock were removed (the stock being synthetic, it might be able to be buried nekkid).

   A torn-down pump shotgun probably would also go in, though, and you could put a LOT of ammo in one. In easy soil, a post-hole digger will dig a fine hole for burying one, but bury it open end down so that the “diving bell effect” will keep water out if the seal were to leak and the hole filled up with water (this condition would probably result in the tube ejecting itself from it’s hiding place, though).

   If you rent one of those power augers, you might be able to put it in a 4′ hole, and it might stay down in that case, even if the hole flooded.
4. Armeggedon Rex says:

   March 18, 2009 at 11:35 am

   RIVRDOG:

   Thanks for the suggestions, but thick wall 4″ diameter PVC pipe works just fine for rifles & ammo, and a lot of other stuff. With decent end caps and good epoxy, it’ll never leak!
   I ha…I mean can fit several dozen PVC tubes under my vegetable garden. There’s more reason than just self sufficiency to have a large vegetable garden, and there was that pesky IRS fellow who went missing… They never did find him.

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