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Okay guys this may sound silly but I have a dilemma. I have two huge safes in my house and they are full to capacity plus. It's gotten so bad I have to spend 5 minutes empting out my reloading man cave before I can get enough space to reload again. How do you guys with a lot of rifles store them? Any help would be appreciated.

I solved that by not keeping anything that isn't used. I'm down to 5 centerfires with the intention of getting to 3-4.

Do you have room to build a walk-in safe? That’s my next move. Good luck! Tom

5 centerfires would only cover part of my .22 centerfire rifles and that is not near enough for the things I do..

And yet your Dad and your Grandfather probably owned one or two centerfires at the most. What a spoiled, materialistic day we live in

Buy another gun safe.

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Mike,
I hardly see how having achieved bounty is a negative. Neither of my grandfathers even owned a centerfire rifle. A 16 gauge and a .22LR did the trick in NC back in the day. My Dad had just one (win M-70 30-06, Weaver K3) until he caught a mild case of Rifle Loony from me later in life and then accumulated maybe 10-12. But the times to which you refer are generally acknowledged as having been "tough." As long as we are conscious and appreciative of how they are now much easier, that's not a bad thing, IMO. And if the reason they are much easier is through our own hard work and success, all the more so - The American Dream, in fact.
I want to tell Fotis, the OP, "I'd like to have a problem like that", except for the fact that I actually DO have a problem like that. And being in the same boat, have little helpful advice to provide. I'm out of safe space, and out of space to put another safe, and my loading room gets treated the same as his!

Now, realistically, thinking back over 35 years of hunting (Western USA only...so far!) I can't think of a critter I killed that I couldn't have killed with Dad's old 30-06.
But that's not why Fotis started this thread I reckon...LOL...I better shut up.

Cheers,
Rex

If you have disposable income, you need something to dispose it on and good quality firearms tend to retain their value.

There is always the question of whether something is wanted or needed.

I could get by with a dozen or so firearms of all types, but choose to have more than a dozen or so because I have enough disposable income to buy the material things that I want without depriving my family of anything that they need. When my oldest wanted to buy a new car, we sat down and ran the numbers to see if buying or leasing was the better choice. When she saw how much that new car would cost to buy or lease, maintain, and insure, she decided that driving her paid for 2008 Ford Escape Limited with 98K on the clock would be a better choice for her over the next 3 to 4 years.

Yeah I have tried that once or twice

If you need more then 2 safes then think about building a safe room.

i ran into a similar situation and i installed rifle rods and that allowed a decent amount of room opened up in the safe.
Big Ed

These are easier times. For now

+1

I'll give you a hand Fotis. Let me know what your overflow is and I'll let you know which ones to send to me for "storage"....grin....

Nowhere to put it

This what I use.

https://www.storemoreguns.com/gun-safe-accessories/long-gun-storage/

Yep. Dad and granddad both got it done for a lifetime with one centerfire rifle, one shotgun and a .22. My life long hunting partner doesn't have much more than that { only two centerfire rifles} and he is a hunting machine, just not a gun nut. Says he prefers to put his money elsewhere and I'm damn glad of it because a big part of the "elsewhere" is a hunting camp with 160 acres which I have been fortunate enough to enjoy hunting on/out of very much.

Yep....good plan in theory but I have tried many times with limited success 😁.....Hb

maybe it's time to build a secret underground bunk...... I mean wine cellar !

waterproof & bury a 20 ft conex in your backyard with acces to it from your cellar

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