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Offline DMacKay

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Gun Display
« on: November 08, 2021, 08:42:36 PM »
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.

Offline smokinbuck

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Re: Gun Display
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2021, 09:42:03 PM »
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.









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Offline DMacKay

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Re: Gun Display
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2021, 10:50:36 PM »
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).


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Re: Gun Display
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2021, 05:09:15 PM »
Smokingbuck, that’s nice buddy. Great collection and tastefully displayed.


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Re: Gun Display
« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2021, 02:06:51 AM »
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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Re: Gun Display
« Reply #5 on: November 10, 2021, 03:40:29 AM »
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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Re: Gun Display
« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2021, 12:57:38 AM »
Very nice!

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Re: Gun Display
« Reply #7 on: November 29, 2021, 02:44:49 AM »
I display my favorites. Life’s too short.



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Re: Gun Display
« Reply #8 on: November 29, 2021, 04:02:24 AM »
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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Re: Gun Display
« Reply #9 on: December 01, 2021, 04:33:22 PM »
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.




« Last Edit: December 01, 2021, 04:37:15 PM by Eric Krewson »

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Re: Gun Display
« Reply #10 on: December 03, 2021, 10:53:59 PM »
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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Offline Marvin S

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Re: Gun Display
« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2021, 03:53:29 PM »
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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Re: Gun Display
« Reply #12 on: December 04, 2021, 04:00:52 PM »
"burglar bomb gas canisters" :o
Please tell us more.

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Re: Gun Display
« Reply #13 on: December 04, 2021, 09:39:14 PM »
"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
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