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General discussion => Contemporary Longrifle Collecting => Topic started by: DMacKay on November 08, 2021, 08:42:36 PM
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Do you display your guns or keep them in a safe? I’d like to display mine and am looking for some ideas. Let’s see some pictures.
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I display my guns, and some accoutrements, in Secluded room. The following pics are some of them. The house is alarmed and the display room has an additional alarm system.
(https://i.ibb.co/9NzC4t3/IMAG0474.jpg) (https://ibb.co/SPW9mr7)
(https://i.ibb.co/4VJ1dTP/IMAG0475.jpg) (https://ibb.co/hmCYfWD)
(https://i.ibb.co/F6rqvVb/IMAG0477.jpg) (https://ibb.co/2q9Y2N7)
(https://i.ibb.co/wJpRDNj/IMAG0478.jpg) (https://ibb.co/q0mdbMV)
(https://i.ibb.co/0KyDnBd/IMAG0479.jpg) (https://ibb.co/YXBRNDq)
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That is a beautiful and extensive display. I used a piece of live edge walnut off my property to display my bow collection. I may do something similar for my flintlock (singular for now).
(https://i.ibb.co/QnwKtn2/061-C4-F3-F-0846-4018-A5-D9-F4-BFB2-D400-AE.jpg) (https://ibb.co/WFJ2jFb)
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Smokingbuck, that’s nice buddy. Great collection and tastefully displayed.
(https://i.ibb.co/0cq8YX2/3696-C19-E-7-D57-4-F15-BF9-F-8-D2195-ABF74-F.png) (https://ibb.co/9Nnzyvg)
Bob
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I feel your thoughts…
I have a couple chunk guns that are too long/large to fit in a safe…so…mostly displayed. When I’m home, I keep one or two out, but when I travel…back in the safe they go. I’ve thought about doing a display on the wall with a custom metal strap that lags into wall studs and locks over them making it very difficult to remove without a lot of work. Have not done it yet though, and…fire is still a concern…
If I have planned workers in my home or visitors…all go into hiding and the safe. No sense advertising… but sometimes you just gotta live... good luck!
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I feel bad for smokinbuck's daughter (if he has one). She's destined for spinsterhood with a dad who's collection looks like that. ;D
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Very nice!
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I display my favorites. Life’s too short.
(https://i.ibb.co/rZhNKnz/0-ECC7469-59-EE-441-B-BE6-C-9-DD3-A986-F3-D6.jpg) (https://ibb.co/xMbdKVB)
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The best I ever saw was a two car garage converted into a walk in gun room. Had a very heavy door accessed only from the inside of the home with a spin dial lock and security system. More value in that one room than the rest of the home put together. Walls were 8 inches thick and nearly sound proof.
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I live about a mile from a run down trailer park that has some good folk but also a significant population of meth heads. I live alone at the end of a dead end road with my closest neighbors about 200 yards away, there are woods between our houses so they would never see if I got unwanted visitors.
I can't take any chances;
(https://i.ibb.co/93YN6pK/gun-safe-001.jpg) (https://imgbb.com/)
I leave my bows out, if someone walks off with them I can easily make more, not so my gun collection, I have 9 traditional B/P guns so far.
(https://i.ibb.co/Kb7133f/bows-2020.jpg) (https://ibb.co/ZGKZkkF)
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There are a (very) few I have displayed in a secluded room somewhere in the house. The others are hidden away.
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I like to ensure they remain where they are supposed to be. So in safes with alarms and burglar bomb gas canisters.
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"burglar bomb gas canisters" :o
Please tell us more.
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"burglar bomb gas canisters" :o
Please tell us more.
I think it's something like, BOOM! and no burglers...or if it's only one burgler it will create 4 out of that one miscreant. At least that would be nice but... :o