Gun displays

[Lancer]

Hello again,

I was wondering how some of you guys (and women :grin: )display your rifles. I want to put two of my long guns on the wall but I cannot come up with a decent way to display them. A standard gun rack just doesn't seem right but I'm not sure if I just need some hooks or something else. I would like to hang my bag and horn along with them as well. Any ideas or pictures out there?

Thanks in advance

 

[Kentuckywindage]

I made this today out of a few smaller cedar trees i cut down earlier today. I'm Hoping i can fit atleast 2 more rifles on it.Smells Purdy too.

 

[Stumpkiller]

I've got a couple sets of cast iron gun hooks. Gifts from a couple good muzzleloading friends. I have slices of Neoprene (cut from mouse pads) between the hooks and the rifles.

 

[Buffalo Bones]

The wooden uprights are pickets salvaged from a fence my wife's Great Grandfather built over 100 years ago. Coat hooks with pieces of plastic tubing slipped over the prongs for hanging the guns.

Powder River
Let'r Buck

 

[AeroncaTAL]

This is the rack I made for my muzzleloaders. The hooks are forged iron, and the wood is oak. A little felt for padding.

Scott

 

[Adirondackman]

Deer legs make great gun racks. They look good and allow you to make use of more of your deer harvest.Also easy to make.

 

[Mike Brooks]

I lean all mine against the barn. :wink:

 

[CARBABY]

Does your gun rack made of Cedar Trees just lean
agains the wall or is it parrallel to the dry wall and attached or fixed some way to keep it
from tipping away from wall with the weight of
the guns???

 

[Kentuckywindage]

It attaches to the wall with a few screws. The plastic inserts i doped up with gorilla glue. Solid as a rock at the moment.

 

[nw_hunter]

GREAT looking set of displays fella's
I'm still drooling over the rifles.

 

[Zonie]

Being in Arizona where it never rains, I just leave them on the grass:

Or, by using the Brass plated coat hooks sold at Ace Hardware and similar stores I hang them on the wall:

Above my fireplace I have hung two Flintlocks from some decorative wrought iron hangers padded with strips of leather.
If you don't have access to something like these you could make your own using a 1/8 X 1/2 strip of cold rolled steel. Cutting this into pieces that are about 7 inches long and bending it so it has a back leg of about 3 inches, a bottom width of 1 3/4 inches and a forward leg of 1 1/4 or so, drilling a hole at the top of the rear leg for mounting it, painting it with flat black paint and covering the inside surfaces with 1/16 thick leather would put you in business.
zonie

 

[LFC]

You can tell Zonie's picture is doctored--the grass is GREEN in it!

More seriously, I've wondered about creating some sort of display setup that would lock the rifles in place (at least enough to make it a real chore to break them loose without a key). My house is kind of low on space and high on kids, and though I'd love to hang a gun (or a half dozen!) on a wall, I'd hate to have a display where some burglar could instantly grab it and make off with it in a minute. (And, being honest with myself, I'd have to expect that my kids would find the temptation to fool with them irresistable, if they're at all like, well, like anyone on this forum was when WE were kids!) So, I'm thinking that what the world needs is a locking hook set of some kind, probably set up so that the gun, when in place, would rest in front of the screws, preventing someone from removing them from the studs in the wall; you'd want to keep the metal in front of the gun somewhat unobtrusive, for aesthetic reasons. If anyone's got any other ideas, I'm all ears.

 

[Pork Chop]

(And, being honest with myself, I'd have to expect that my kids would find the temptation to fool with them irresistable, if they're at all like, well, like anyone on this forum was when WE were kids!)

I take exception to that. When I was a kid, my father had enough arms and ammunition to fund a small third world country. NONE were ever locked. They were in his HUGE homemade gun cabinet. Some were mine too. I knew that while I could look, I had best not touch or there would be HE!! to pay! I never took the temptation and Dad never had to give me a posterior temperature adjustment - for that anyway...

 

[rf50cal]

Zonie, they're some mighty fine looking rifles you have there. Even if the grass is doctored!

 

[Lancer]

Wow,

I want to thank all of you for all the pictures :hatsoff: . It's really given me a lot to think about as well as to drool over :bow: . All thos guns of Mike's and Zonie's has got me to thinkning about building my own :shocked2: .

Thanks guys,

Lancer

 

[Zonie]

"All thos guns of Mike's and Zonie's has got me to thinkning about building my own"
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That was the idea. :grin:

"Hey Ma! Ah thinks ah am 'bout ta hook another one!"

zonie

 

[oldwolf]

Storing my guns in the open makes me worry.

So I bought a tool chest over at the hardware store to put them in.

 

[mckutzy]

wow great looking setup, i like the rustic look on the rack/everything hook.....

a bit off topic... could u post a closer pic of ur pipe holder on ur belt, thats quite the rig looks handy too.. :hatsoff:

 

[Kentuckywindage]

Hope this is what you were talking about.

This is the little pouch thats on my belt and Holds my flint and steel/ char cloth.

And this is what the pipe holder looks like with the tobacco pouch attatched. I want to make a heart shaped pipe holder later on. This will do for now. Sorry for the change in the topic, We'll get back onto the topic Now.

 

Hey Rock Creek, that is a fine looking set up. Got any more of that fencing? Great looking set stable of rifles too!

Mike: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
I have a similar set up. It's economical!