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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.
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George Orwell was a Prophet, not a novelist. Read 1984 and then look around you!
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you got to watch those savages or you'll end up like this !!
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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!
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HEY! Shelves...now there's an idea.
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Thats depressing !!!!! and i can imagine how they store their ammo !!
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It was Pat that warned about guns in dark safes.
The first time I shot myself in the head...
Meniere's Sucks Big Time!!!
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I'm trying to figure out the rate at which they double so I can anticipate when I'll need another safe.
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I'm trying to figure out the rate at which they double so I can anticipate when I'll need another safe. Yesterday.
The first time I shot myself in the head...
Meniere's Sucks Big Time!!!
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Time for another safe. Managed to squeeze in a few more..
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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Jorge, if you turn some of them muzzle down there's a lot more room in there.
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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.
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"The Democrat Party looks like Titanic survivors. Partying and celebrating one moment, and huddled in lifeboats freezing the next". Hatari 2017
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
Originally Posted By: slumlord
people that text all day get on my nerves
just knowing that people are out there with that ability,....just makes me wanna punch myself in the balls
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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. 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.
Originally Posted By: slumlord
people that text all day get on my nerves
just knowing that people are out there with that ability,....just makes me wanna punch myself in the balls
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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
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.
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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.
Originally Posted By: slumlord
people that text all day get on my nerves
just knowing that people are out there with that ability,....just makes me wanna punch myself in the balls
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