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1. Pre-70’s built houses will tend to have plaster walls, rather than drywall… you can’t cut it very well with a drywall knife, but once you’ve located the studs you can drill a couple of 3/8″ holes and use a drywall saw to accomplish the task.

   With pre-50’s built houses, you are likely to run into wood lath based plaster. This tends to be a rather fragile affair and will not lend itself well to this sort of hole in the wall storage method.

2. Don’t put loaded magazines in there as over time the springs will give out and they will not feed when you need them. Put bullets and mags in together but separate.

3. Craig, that’s absolutely not true. I have purchased and used magazines from WWI that had been loaded for nearly 100 years and they all worked fine. It’s the compression and de-compression of magazine springs that wears them out, not just leaving them loaded. If weight on springs were an issue, every car at every dealership would need new springs, since they have been “loaded” since they left the assembly line.

   1. Do not forget to leave a record of this “hide” in case of accident or disability(stroke/TBI). These type of hides are sometimes found during remodeling or demolition(some aren’t and are gone to the trash)

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