Gun Display

[DMacKay]

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.

[smokinbuck]

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.

[DMacKay]

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).

[Rajin cajun]

Smokingbuck, that’s nice buddy. Great collection and tastefully displayed.


Bob

[Timberdog]

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!

[DavidC]

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.

[mab7]

Very nice!

[Bob McBride]

I display my favorites. Life’s too short.

[Daniel Coats]

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.

[Eric Krewson]

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;



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.

[hanshi]

There are a (very) few I have displayed in a secluded room somewhere in the house.  The others are hidden away.

[Marvin S]

I like to ensure they remain where they are supposed to be. So in safes with alarms and burglar bomb gas canisters.

[bluenoser]

"burglar bomb gas canisters"
Please tell us more.

[hanshi]

"burglar bomb gas canisters"
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...