Gun & Ammo Storage

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I have seen some amazing man caves and gun storage mecca's. I am thinking I am going to have some spare time on my hands this winter so I may do something to this space and pretty it up a bit. Maybe an island on wheels with a permanently mounted gun vice, put up a couple of walls to hang the bows on perhaps.

Let's see how you store your toys? Someone out there MUST have the Taj Mahal of gun rooms - and a very understanding wife - LOL.

I have two Protector safes - one for guns, and the other for ammo and my camera equipment. I bought them at Costco 10 years ago for $400/each and they are HEAVY!

[Gilroy]

Is that glock supposed to be hanging there John.LOL

[js4fn]

Mines a mess.


Doesn’t show all the guns

[Gilroy]

Nice collection.

[Fox]

My wife and I are thinking ahead, rather than move to a bigger place we want to do an addition in a few years. The plan is to bump out, change the main floor to have larger bedrooms for kids and a bathroom just for us and then expand the basement with that to include an office, multi-purpose room and a windowless secured room for me . The thing I am fighting with, what size, the width will be 8ft but is 10ft long enough? Maybe 12ft?

I had a flood here and I can tell you, anyone who stores guns in the basement, get them off the ground. I had a 2x6 box under the cabinets and ended up with about 4in of water. When we were finished with all the repairs I made boxes that are 12in high and may go even higher when I make the new room. You can always store things underneath that are not as critical but 100 year old gun stocks are hard to come by.

I like the idea of a full work bench that I can roll away from the wall, something independent of a fixed reloading bench, put a gun vise on there and a soft washable top layer to put under any guns you are working, that sort of thing.

[rick_iles]

My wife and I are thinking ahead, rather than move to a bigger place we want to do an addition in a few years. The plan is to bump out, change the main floor to have larger bedrooms for kids and a bathroom just for us and then expand the basement with that to include an office, multi-purpose room and a windowless secured room for me . The thing I am fighting with, what size, the width will be 8ft but is 10ft long enough? Maybe 12ft?

I had a flood here and I can tell you, anyone who stores guns in the basement, get them off the ground. I had a 2x6 box under the cabinets and ended up with about 4in of water. When we were finished with all the repairs I made boxes that are 12in high and may go even higher when I make the new room. You can always store things underneath that are not as critical but 100 year old gun stocks are hard to come by.

I like the idea of a full work bench that I can roll away from the wall, something independent of a fixed reloading bench, put a gun vise on there and a soft washable top layer to put under any guns you are working, that sort of thing.

I did an inspection years ago on the best firearms storage are I’ve seen. The guy had a block walled room, 10x12 with an old vault door. He got the door used from a demo company.....and of course, it was alarmed !!! His collection pretty much filled that room....

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Is that glock supposed to be hanging there John.LOL

LOL.......Terry that my friend is a practice gun (honest). I just keep it in the holster so I do not loose it. A buddy of mine is an armorer for movie sets and he used my G17 as a mold and made up 20 or so of them made of rubber (they look very real) - he gave me one for lending him my Glock. Perfect solution when he needs to outfit a movie shoot that has 20 NYC cops that will not use their side arm. In shoots where they are using the side arm they use a real Glock and a special barrel insert that allows blanks to cycle the action. Pretty cool actually.

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My wife and I are thinking ahead, rather than move to a bigger place we want to do an addition in a few years. The plan is to bump out, change the main floor to have larger bedrooms for kids and a bathroom just for us and then expand the basement with that to include an office, multi-purpose room and a windowless secured room for me . The thing I am fighting with, what size, the width will be 8ft but is 10ft long enough? Maybe 12ft?

I had a flood here and I can tell you, anyone who stores guns in the basement, get them off the ground. I had a 2x6 box under the cabinets and ended up with about 4in of water. When we were finished with all the repairs I made boxes that are 12in high and may go even higher when I make the new room. You can always store things underneath that are not as critical but 100 year old gun stocks are hard to come by.

I like the idea of a full work bench that I can roll away from the wall, something independent of a fixed reloading bench, put a gun vise on there and a soft washable top layer to put under any guns you are working, that sort of thing.

Fox,
I would highly recommend staying and renovating vs moving. Renovating allows you to just add the amount of space you need where you need it, and you get to pick the finishes you want. My wife and I did the same thing. We downsized to an area we wanted to live (with young kids) and the plan was in 5 years either move or renovate. After 1 year we decided to renovate and have never been happier. Every new house I looked at in the area I wanted to live, came with a long list of things I would have to renovate or fix.

The reno itself is a PITA but in the end it worth it. We added a second floor master bedroom, ensuite, and two walk in closets, bumped the front of the house out with a covered front porch and added a covered back porch off the kitchen. The basement under my extension is my gun room - that is what I am eying next.

[line052]

I had a good one in old house. Still the process of building new room, but I have several safe, and 2 X 6ft tall Costco Steel cabinets for reloading......equipment. Pictures to follow

[Fox]

Fox,
I would highly recommend staying and renovating vs moving. Renovating allows you to just add the amount of space you need where you need it, and you get to pick the finishes you want. My wife and I did the same thing. We downsized to an area we wanted to live (with young kids) and the plan was in 5 years either move or renovate. After 1 year we decided to renovate and have never been happier. Every new house I looked at in the area I wanted to live, came with a long list of things I would have to renovate or fix.

The reno itself is a PITA but in the end it worth it. We added a second floor master bedroom, ensuite, and two walk in closets, bumped the front of the house out with a covered front porch and added a covered back porch off the kitchen. The basement under my extension is my gun room - that is what I am eying next.

I do 3D CAD for a living, I am modeling up the room and we are 3 years away from being able to pull money from the equity, which is the ideal way to pay for it.

I plan on Ikea wardrobes for hunting clothes and gear on 1 wall, with doors to keep it clean. I have a 7.5ft x 16in solid ash reloading bench I made, this will remain on the back wall. The other wall will be for gun cabinets. Above the reloading bench will be locking cabinets for powder and such. I am debating above the gun cabinets, maybe some wood gun racks with a hinged locking feature, since the whole room will have a solid core door with dead bolt it will be a room "not easily broken in to" so I can put guns on the wall, even with ammo, but I would lock them to the wall as a secondary measure. I need to work out how to display my cartridge collection and vintage ammo box collection but working on my collection of wood working tools so shadow boxes is probably going to be the way to go.

I do have a small rolling 2 level bench I was given from work, maybe 24x18 and short, that should roll around the room, and I will make a rolling bench 24in wide and up to 60in long, although I am not sure I need it that long. This will be a butcher block cable with butcher block shelf, I have some old butcher block work benches from the 60s from work, they look cool and will be very strong. Have that on castors and it should never be in the way, as long as I only try to do 1 task at a time.

This is all if we can do an 8x12 room for me, if it goes down to 8x10 or 8x8 then my plans will have to change.