How do you store your muzzleloaders?

[SirFrancis]

I’ve accumulated four muzzleloaders now. 3 are muskets with 42-46” barrels. Aside from leaning them in a corner what are some good options for storage? These things are big. I’ll probably add 2-3 more in the next year or two. How do you all store them?

 

[Jim]

All my firearms (except handguns) are stored muzzle DOWN!

Any excess oil in the bores, drain HARMLESSLY out the muzzle, onto a folded patch.

Ever notice those ugly streaks of stain on the wrist and comb of long arms in your local gun shop?

 

[Eutycus]

Up high + horizontal where they can be seen but not touched.

 

[mooman76]

I have an old military wall locker to keep what is too big for my safe. Muzzle down for at least a few days.

 

[B P Maniac Shooter]

Barrels pointed down in the gun safe.

 

[ohio ramrod]

Barrels pointed down is gun cabinet. Muzzle lower than breech on wall mount.

 

[Ames]

1/2" muzzle down overall on the wall. Never had a problem.

 

[Phil Coffins]

In a safe, I’m not giving thieves any more guns!

 

[oldwood]

In safe Muzzle down.

 

[ord sgt]

This is how I store mine.

 

[moose23]

Some are hanging high, others in the safe

 

[Grenadier1758]

In a safe, muzzle down.

 

[cynthialee]

Barrels down in the gun safe.

 

[Timber Wolf]

Who has a safe tall enough for long barreled muzzleloaders? My Kiblers don’t fit in anything I can find.

 

[Grenadier1758]

I built my gun safe to hold my Long Land Pattern King's musket with a 46" barrel.

 

[Flintlock]

Lightly oiled, sometimes hanging horizontally on the wall when I'm home, standing vertically in the sage if I'm not. Most are unloaded but one is kept loaded so I can take frequent trips around the farms.

 

[William Lincoln]

Wiped down every six months or after use cleaning. Careful to avoid
dampness. Keep some in different places in different States. I have an
older gun safe loaded with wrapped concrete half blocks. My real guns
are elsewhere "In safe places." Not in a safe.

 

[Phil Coffins]

Who has a safe tall enough for long barreled muzzleloaders? My Kiblers don’t fit in anything I can find.

My Treadlock is tall enough to hold my Kibler.

 

[Fly Navy]

Mine are hanging on the wall where I can enjoy looking at them.

 

[necchi]

Well I should get a safe,(knock on wood), but their all in the corner of a closet,
I ain't gonna leave'm in the kitchen or the living room.
I haven't had a need to display,(aka; Advertise) my guns since I lived in Wyoming and left'm hang in the window rack of my pick-up truck.