Gun Rooms

[Lee Martin]

Just finished my gun room and thought I'd post some photos:

I have a lot more to add, especially supplies (powder, bullets, brass, dies, etc). I also need to bring in a couple of other gun safes. This space won't house all of my guns, but it'll be home to the Sevilles, El Dorados, and Abilenes. In time I may add a secure door and bar the windows. Then I can construct a Seville display in the middle. Baby steps though, right?

I'd like to see some of our member gun rooms too. So feel free to extend this thread.

 

[MaxP]

That's coming together very nicely, Lee!

 

[contender]

It MUST be a new room,,, as it's too clean & organized!

Mine is constantly cluttered & in need of organization. But,,, we are planning on building an addition to the house in the future. When we do,,, I'll have a bigger man-cave & a better place to clutter up.

Yours looks nice Lee!

 

[Robb Barnes]

Neat gun room Lee but I still think the pictures of the shop in your 44Special picture anthology is cooler! :lol:

 

[VA Shooter]

Very nice Lee if my wife saw that she would kick my butt (mine is a mess)

 

[Lee Martin]

Neat gun room Lee but I still think the pictures of the shop in your 44Special picture anthology is cooler! :lol:

Thanks Robb. All of those 44 Special pictures were taken in either the shop one room over or the garage 10 feet away.

 

[RugerHound]

That's a beautiful gun room!! I wanna see it in 6 months after it gets all messed up like the rest of us though! I'm VERY glad to know that I'm not the only one with a room that looks like the wreck of the Hesperus!

 

[Lee Martin]

Ah, it won't get messed up. I'm OCD neat-freak (but trust me....I wish I wasn't. It can be maddening at times ).

 

[Tellico]

Ah, it won't get messed up. I'm OCD neat-freak (but trust me....I wish I wasn't. It can be maddening at times ).

Me too, I would never let mine get like this. :lol: Wife gone to MT for the month. It will look better before she gets back. For sure!

 

[don44]

That is a very nice gun room. Looks like it is roomy too, also like the paneling that you have.

 

[gunman42782]

Very nice!

 

[americal]

Lee we live in two different worlds :lol: Fantastic--your room looks like your guns :arrow: NEAT,PRECISE,EXPENSIVE,WELL LIGHTED,A air of big $$$$ so this is the class warfare they been trying to get us mad at one another---well it ain't working GREAT ROOM :!: here is my DEAL this is poor boy southern barefooted,washer on the front poarch Alabama gun cabinet about 150 year old cupboard with some old rugers

 

[gatling]

Awesome rooms. All very cool.

 

[princeout]

Great looking spaces! I'm just starting mine. It is on the left in this photo.

This picture is last week. Since then, the A/C duct has been installed, more stem wall poured and electric stubbed in. Today they bent the rebar for the floor and more for the walls. Should pour the floor tomorrow. Waiting on the final wall thickness to order the vault door. Inswing vault doors are tough to find. Justified the gun room as a "tornado safe room" since tornadoes seem to favor this little stretch of ground.

Tim

Added floor today:

 

[doccash]

Any room that you can call your own is a treasure, congratulations. Being a neat freak is optionaland I admire you for it. DrC

 

[doccash]

Any room that you can call your own is a treasure, congratulations. Being a neat freak is optionaland I admire you for it. DrC

 

[dougader]

It's a great start, and already looks super cool.

 

[majorKAP]

In my old house, this second level room was unused attic space with an unusual shape and low knee-walls. It wasn't suitable for much else so she didn't object too much 30 years ago, and now I'm firmly established in there.

 

[americal]

majorKAP I enjoyed that tour

 

[RugerHound]

Holy smoke! Americal is right... Great tour!

 

[gatling]

Awesome!

 

[Jeff Hoover]

MAjorKap, Awesome is right ! I love it ! Great job !

 

[Ale-8(1)]

Wow, Major, that's quite a nice setup.

Just wondering . . . looks like quite a load for a "second level" room, particularly the safe and toolbox. Did you reinforce the floor?

 

[majorKAP]

Wow, Major, that's quite a nice setup.

Just wondering . . . looks like quite a load for a "second level" room, particularly the safe and toolbox. Did you reinforce the floor?

Nope, no reinforcement. The tool chest isn't particularly heavy, nor is it loaded with anything significant. Some of the little wooden cabinets filled with lead will outweigh the tool chest.

The floor joists below the safe are old 2x12" actual dimension, and it sits over a bearing wall. The safe isn't bolted to the floor, nor the wall. I'm not sure if that is necessary.

It'll take a team of six thieves a long time to get it out of there. Twenty plus years ago, it took that many good strong young men, a case of beer and four large pepperoni pizzas to get it up there while it was still empty! We had to remove the door from the safe and carry it up separately just to get it done.

When my youngest son was a little thing, his highchair sat in the kitchen directly beneath the safe. My wife worried about it and didn't mind telling me.

One night, about a month after the safe was installed, my fire chief got a frantic call from my wife while I was at work and out on a call. She told him that our ceiling was creaking and she was sure that the safe was going to come crashing through. Chief contacted me on the radio, took me off duty, and sent me racing twenty-five miles home. I hoped to get there in time to unload the thing before it and I both fell through.

When I arrived, wife was sitting with both of our lads in her car out in the driveway.... too fearful to go back inside. I went into the kitchen, admittedly with a bit of apprehension about it all. I wasn't concerned about the damage that might occur. I was concerned that it would happen and she would have fuel for the "I TOLD YOU SO!".

Sure enough, I too heard the ominous creaking sound. Turns out, the frightening noise of an imminent floor collapse was nothing more than a bearing going bad in the icemaker portion of our refigerator/freezer.

So, decades later, the safe still stands, and not even a crack has occurred in plaster of the ceiling below it.

 

[SteveRuger]

Nice Tour! I wish mine was that organized, I have three rooms full & I still can not find what I am looking for!

 

[jussbad]

Nice Tour! I wish mine was that organized, I have three rooms full & I still can not find what I am looking for!

I can vouch for what Steve said.

 

[BearBio]

Nice Tour! I wish mine was that organized, I have three rooms full & I still can not find what I am looking for!

Ditto: One room for fly-tying, one room for reloading and one for relaxing. (Oh, and the office doubles for leatherworking also).

 

[Spencer]

Bearbio, I love how you used the old decker pack saddle as a rifle rack. If I ever come across one, I am going to have to do the same thing. Great looking rooms. I like the decor in everyone's rooms.

I have to clean mine then take some pics.

 

[SteveRuger]

Nice Knives also The one on the far right looks like s Stek & one kinda in the mddle on the left looks like a Black Jack or a Randall? Nice photo's

 

[BearBio]

Nice Knives also The one on the far right looks like s Stek & one kinda in the mddle on the left looks like a Black Jack or a Randall? Nice photo's

Those are Randalls. There's a No 1 and an aircrewman (the one that looks like a Stek==watch the Classifieds-that one will be going on the block soon!). Also, several by Chuck Stapels. The Damascus is a Russell.