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You should start with a Musk Ox on the wall.

There is a gent who posts mainly on the Savage Collectors board who uses the handle Loggah.
An avid and knowledgeable collector, a few years back he built a dandy of a gun room/vault which was discussed with a fair amount of detail. You could likely find the posts and maybe contact him for lessons learned and recommendations.

Store long guns MUZZLE DOWN!!

LOL ...

I want to marry him..............See what i can get in the divorce.

Its a handy tool that allows me to strip lat/long coords from images.

I figured out where a few guys were hunting arrowheads on another forum I visit. 😄

Not that I would drive two states away to walk some guy's field, but it sure made a believer out of him when I sent him a .png map of his favorite spot down to the n'th acre.

Gbp, that is really sweet but you need another wall😀

I’m only 68. Can you adopt me? 😊

If I were building a house or remodeling, I'd reinforce the walls of an existing room or build a room out of reinforced concrete, and install a commercial vault door. This would turn the entire room into a gun safe. Some secure doors look like regular ones at first glance. The other alternative is build a smaller vault into the house in a hidden area with a vault door, like behind a false wall in the back of a closet. I knew a guy built a sunken a safe into his basement floor (very dry basement), and you couldn't tell because he had a rug and coffee table on top of it.

Heres a little look into the gun vault i built. Its about 18'x20' in the vault area.

https://pbase.com/loggah/the_vault

Passport,

You need to the pictures from "Shotgun World" of the Winchester model 42 collector who has a complete model 42 gun shop in his basement. So well done, the pictures will bring a tear to the eye of a true shot gunner which i know you are.

Doc

Believe it or not.....my dear departed wife made that for me.......but naturally she ignored it.

Loggah
Awesome place and superb collection. I’m jealous of all those lever guns

Every time I see that I'm stunned. Amazing job.

Wow, Loggah, now that's a "gun room"!

Hmmmmm!

An island for cleaning rifle barrels is pretty slick. A spot to hang all your cleaning rods close to the island is also nice. A window with a bench to shoot at a 100 yard target makes load development much faster.

to answere misc ??'s
the room is 14" thick 5k reinforced concrete , all 4 sides top and bottom, the vault door is 4700 lbs full of concrete
right now there is 200 long gungs in there
each rifle has a drawer underneath it to hold the magazines and or ammunition that fits that rifle.
I will post pics of the reloading room later

Why?

because he apparently stores them wet

Same for me, my room is 12’ x 15’ with one window & 2 closets. I am a 40+ year Warehouseman, so my room has a warehouse flare. Mainly because bullets & ammo are heavy and the racks are quite functional. It is not at all ugly. It is definitely Blue Collar. The overhead weight of the bullet shelf, 8’ long, adds a solid base for my load bench which is the lower shelf. I have two 8’ racks. My gun safe covers the window. Entry is a vault door with electric lockdown. All of that is behind the normal looking, standard bedroom door.