Home Camouflage

I have four pistols that I hid before going on a trip four years ago. Found most of my guns but those four still elude me.

I know they're here someplace and will turn up.

We moved a big heavy bookcase out of one of our upstairs bedrooms last month and what do you know? - there was a pretty little pre war Walther PPKs that I hadn't seen in over eight years. Perfect shape too, nicely wrapped in green felt. The bookcase weighs around 600 lbs.

Now I'm eyeballing two other big bookcases downstairs. Neither my wife or I can remember whether or not I put anything under them and we're debating whether or not to go through all of the trouble to find out. I don't think the missing four are under them because they've been in place longer than four years. These are big old German carved oak bookcases. One's eight feet long and the other is twelve feet. The big one took three guys to get off the truck and into place. I'm thinking maybe I could cut a little door in the bottom shelf and use a mirror to look around under there. My wife resists that idea, knowing that I'd make a mess of such a hole.

I think maybe hiding guns isn't such a great idea. But I like thinking about someone finding stuff long after I've croaked.

I have 12 acres and a Kubota tractor with a backhoe. I've been digging holes for the last year or so and burying stuff all over my property. It makes me start laughing to think about archeologists in the future finding these treasures. I hope it stalls some development project in the future. I bought some hatchet heads from Track of the Wolf, Inc. just to bury. Someday they'll make all the tractors wait until the paleanthologists and archeologists have determined what sort of holy burial ground this was. LOL! I need some human bones - that'll really throw them into a fit someday!

I changed out one of the toilets recently so what to do with the old one? You guessed it, I buried the sucker all set up like normal. upright. Another imporant find in the year 2550!

When I had a 1/2 ton, I bought a gun rack at the flea market and mounted it UNDER the window behind the seat.

Handy for lots of stuff, like jumper cables, shovels, etc.

The older truck seat covers also had a sewn pocket under the knees large enough for lever actions and pump shotguns. Obviously neither location is a quick grab, just transport.

These days, Cabela's and WalMart offer inexpensive locked gun boxes for the car or home. The fit in lots of places.

As for hiding a gun under an algebra book, I have two books hollowed to hide things in them. In the day, you could also buy household and garage items modified to hold other stuff, like oil cans the lid popped off, or you can use an empty can of Crisco with a false lid. IIRC they are now sold online.

For CCW, the Kangaroo shoulder pouch had recently got my interest. It's made for true deep concealment carry, not like the Maxpedition - level Thunderwear stuff most commercial vendors sell to the public. I don't need to rappel using a shoulder holster, nor all the buckles, straps and padding.

And my kids old computer cases with side swinging doors now come to mind. Wonder what I could do making a simple handgun box out of them?

Superlite27: "For this, I merely place my pistol in an empty Cheetos bag (I've seen this on T.V. somewhere) and place it on my center console like I'm eatin' Cheetos. It's still easily accessible. I can shoot right through the bag. Yet, it's concealed."

"Muncha, buncha, muncha, buncha ... BOOOM! ... Cheetos ate your lunch."

That's pretty good. I don't generally do Cheetos, but might make an exception, now.

not that i would ever do these;

Ziplock bag in the bottom of the cat box

dirty clothes hamper

box of tampons

hollowed out hymnal book

you get the idea!

I used to work with a guy that liked to hide a small semi-auto in the oven in his house.
One day he forgot.....

I took an old clock radio and stripped the guts every thing but the light...and stuck a snubbie .357 in it. Looks like an alarm clock.

A custom chest building company called Gerstner makes a clock that when opened accompanies a hand gun rack. Above the face a section of wood can be pulled, forcing the face itself to become ajar and giving you acess to your gun. The price is steep, but its extremely well built. http://www.gerstnerusa.com/hobby/Clocks.htm

The interior of a large, heavy chiming clock

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Looks like an alarm clock.

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Gerstner makes a clock that when opened accompanies a hand gun rack.

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O.K. Evidently, all burglars are averse to the theft of timepieces.

I realize that T.V.'s, stereos, and other expensive electronic equipment are usually the goal of intruders, but why not clocks?

Is there soemthing about clocks that just turn off burglars? Do burglars normally think to themselves, "Hey, I think I'll bust into this house and steal everything.....but the clocks. Nope. Don't want any clocks today."

Well, clocks aren't typically big-ticket items. Even those that are (true antique grandfather clocks) aren't that easy to unload. So I suspect burglars look right past them.

Superlite27: ""The interior of a large, heavy chiming clock ..." Is there soemthing about clocks that just turn off burglars?"

From the post you quoted: "The interior of a large, heavy chiming clock like my cast-iron Ansonia has plenty of room and is easily accessed from behind. Stealing such a clock would be a major effort and relatively unprofitable, and metal detectors obviously would be baffled by the cast-iron clock body."

put up "Gun Free Zone" signs that will hide the fact that you have guns

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That would be a home invasion lawsuit waiting to happen. I can just see some robber testifying from his hospital bed the sign encouraged him to rob the place giving the homeowner the chance to 'unfairly' shoot him. Before you laugh, ask yourself what a California jury would do...

The Big Book of Hiding Places has some good ideas, but I can think of better ones, like inside a stripped out VCR, inside a computer tower, inside a hollowed out water heater that is hooked up to the water pipes (water pipes going inside the heater have to be capped) and wrapped in a water heater blanket to hide door.

laundry baskets are one of the things crooks will use to pack your stuff out to your car that they found the keys for so prob not a good hiding place. The cat litter box not a bad idea. Also hiding a gun in anything that a bg is going to take any ways is a bad idea IE computer or electronics.

Instead of trying to hide them, why not just make them harder to find without going to serious effort. I have a false closet in my basement that I finished out, reinforced all of the studs, built a frame in and mounted my safe from 3 sides. I test the sucker with my baseball bat (to the studs, not the safe itself) and nearly broke my hands on the first swing. The closet is in such a location that it would be the last place one would look as it is well hidden while still in plain sight.

Although, I've got enough crap in my basement, I could just rearrange things and no burglar in their right mind would waste their time sorting through crappy old sleeping bags, stuffed animals (my wife), and old clothes. The more lucrative things are upstairs (computers, tvs, etc).

not that i would ever do these;

Ziplock bag in the bottom of the cat box

dirty clothes hamper

box of tampons

hollowed out hymnal book

you get the idea!


I was just gonna say the litter box too funny , but I seed alot of neat ideas here, although I have no real valuables cept a few things I am going to build a safe room for s--hi--ts and giggles and shtf senario will keep me busy maybe add resale value to house etc...

Just stick it under some insulation.

Pair of white Fruit of the Loom undershorts inside out with a bit of brown shoe polish applied in the right location, laid over pistol.
Works in hotel room, anyway.

BB93YJ: "Pair of white Fruit of the Loom undershorts inside out with a bit of brown shoe polish applied in the right location, laid over pistol. Works in hotel room, anyway."

Until the maid picks them up. Not bad at home, though.

An adult diaper full of spicy brown mustard, or a kid's diaper full of French's yellow mustard, works even better.

How about a gun locker built from an old Coke machine?

http://www.gunsnet.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=174612

Threeband: "How about a gun locker built from an old Coke machine?"

Not too bad. But when the searcher gets thirsty and puts in his dollar, will your PPK come clattering down into the bin?

It should, if he pushes the button marked "PPK".

With regard to "hiding in plain sight":

I have an '02 Chevy truck. I have bucket seats with a console in the middle. The console locks and for a while I was locking my firearm(s)s in there if there was an occasion that I was unable to carry inside someplace. But, I am now actually more comfortable in taking out the cup holders, which exposes a fairly large "hidden" area and storing them there instead. The locking center console is just too obvious a place to look, and if someone notices that it's locked they will realize that there must be something in there worth stealing...and those plastic consoles are not difficult to break through.

Years ago I knew a guy (online) who took the bolts out of his vintage military rifles when he took them over to the range to shoot, in order to prevent misuse, accidental discharge or theft. Well, someone grabbed his bag of bolts, for whatever reason.

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Did someone at the range take them? I was thinking of assembling them BEFORE going to the range.