Some of you fellows are downright paranoid! Any of these photos could have been taken years ago. Mine was taken about 2012 to compliment a magazine article I wrote, but I'll happily admit that I still own it. Me owning it and someone taking it are two very different things. Molon Labe. And if the opposition is too heavy, or you decide to tell them the boating accident story, then you'll be under suspicion a being an owner, afraid to take it out of hiding and use it, and no doubt charged as a criminal if found out. It won't do you, your family, or your neighbor any good if it's buried, and you can't take it to the range and enjoy it. The only realistic choices are that when the big ATF or HS dump truck with the goons comes to take your firearms you can (1) resist, or (2) help throw them on the pile in the back of the truck. All I can promise you is that if they come to my house to take my M1 first, there will be a couple less when they come to your house.
There are other ways that the burial idea can go astray also: Back in 1999, when the world was going to end with Y2K on Dec. 31st at midnight, a customer came into my shop and bought a brand new Chinese SKS. Kind of odd, I thought, as he already owned at least three of them. In 2001 he came back in (he was a regular and I saw him a couple of times a month) and bought another SKS. This time I asked him about it, and he said that in preparation for Y2K he had taken the one he purchased in 1999 along with a case of ammo and had buried it on a hillside in the forest on Forest Service land. Two years later since civilization hadn't ended, he decided to go back and dig it up. A couple of very large bulldozers had made a logging road around the hillside right where he had hidden it and pushed all of the dirt removed off the downhill side of the new road. He knew about where he had buried it, but it was now beneath tons of dirt and rocks, so other than a visual search he just gave up on it.