Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire The great gun safe reorganization of 2015

I don’t recall if it was Patrick McManus, Ed Zern or perhaps Gene Hill that warned us about what happens if you leave guns in a dark safe. They multiply at an alarming rate!



Frankly, I blame the campfire. 15 years ago I was perfectly happy shooting stuff with a Win M70 .243 my dad had given me! You people are a bad influence (in the best possible way)



The Fort Knox I have I bought more than 25 years ago and I think it was a 12 gun safe. Over time I took the shelves out and inserted some new configs to allow more but I was pretty much done and guns that should be in the safe we now in cases and spread around the house.



Friend Jorge, with the same problem, pointed this http://www.storemoreguns.com company out a couple weeks ago so I counted poorly and ordered the 20-gun set ($75)

It’s essentially sheet of the loop side of Velcro you staple to the bottom of the shelf and then a series of .22 rods that a disk with the hook side you slide into the barrel and hook to the bottom of the shelf.



As you can see, it works great and the 12 gun safe now holds 24 with room for at least a half dozen more (time to get busy!). 32 percussion no longer fits since I filled in the insert in the shelf that allowed very long barrels so I’ll just have to let VANimrod make me and offer I can’t refuse (hear that Sean!)

As you can see, I ran over 20 so cut a disk from a dowel and drilled and inserted and then stuck some Velcro on the end. In fact, you could make this whole set-up for far less than $75 but I have to give the folks that put it together credit for ingenuity and marketing it so I don’t feel like I wasted the money.



A nice couple hour project including oiling and checking out guns that don’t get out of the safe much as well as catching up with documenting serial numbers and such.

Tough problem to have!

you got to watch those savages or you'll end up like this !!

I assure you in 8 years in the "forever house" in NH that the safe won't be much of an issue. I'll have something much more like that!

HEY!
Shelves...now there's an idea.

Thats depressing !!!!! and i can imagine how they store their ammo !!

It was Pat that warned about guns in dark safes.

I'm trying to figure out the rate at which they double so I can anticipate when I'll need another safe.

Yesterday.

Time for another safe. Managed to squeeze in a few more..

Jorge, if you turn some of them muzzle down there's a lot more room in there.

As former Naval Air you'll appreciate the back of the roll around bins I use for storage. They also happen to hide the safe which works out well.

Top is a poster I got from Tailhook in 91
Middle picture is one I took of trapping on the Washington
Bottom is another poster back when we had Prowlers and Intruders in the Navy and now we have neither.

Love it, good work!

Turn out the lights on that middle photo and it's not nearly as much fun

OBTW you need to put up some shots of Phantoms or Tomcats on your bins

That sea state and an easy divert makes night not fun but OK. Throw in a pitching deck and blue water and it's time to replace the seat cushion.

Why would I put pointy nose jet pictures in my shop when everyone knows jets shaped like a drumstick get the real work done.

It's a well known fact that the warm dark confines of a gun safe are perfect to promote firearms to breed and multiply till the safe cannot hold any more. What better reason does a guy need to buy another safe and start the process all over again.

Pugs,

From MAT Wing 1's Hanger in Oceana:

Fighters make movies...Bombers make history.

The other one was in the upstairs hall:

Bombers...The real reason for building aircraft carriers.

VA-42 & VA-85
AT2 WC 210 Night Supervisor (89) Indian O and (91) Desert Storm Cruises USS America
85-91

Even more bizarre is how either a lone upper or lower AR assembles itself with sights or scope...magically! Can't seem to figure that one out.

May have heard those before (from the bulletin board in the shop). Had a good friend with VAQ-137 on that cruise. Looking forward to catching up with him at the USN Prowler farewell at Whidbey this June.

Attack...I should have remembered that.

Yes I remember those cousins in 137 with their gay gold canopies!

I am sure I would have transitioned to Prowlers being an AT had I stayed in after they whacked the Intruders.

Good times.