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Displaying Your Collection
Several years ago completed my collection of Colt Frontier Scout revolvers, one of each prefix/series. Built a display board out of old barn wood and bolted it to wall. Turned out pretty cool. Trying to figure out how to display the Smiths now. Live edge slabs? Coming up blank...how do you guys display your collections??????
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Trying to figure out how to display the Smiths now. ... Coming up blank...how do you guys display your collections??????
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That display board is amazing. Quite the piece of art, you got there.
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That is a really cool display but I personally would only do something like that if I had a walk in safe room. So unfortunately my guns are only displayed in my safe.
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I'd love to display my guns, but I'm too paranoid.
I live in a extremely safe area...first 3 years after having my house built, I never knew both sides of my patio door opened. The left side had been unlocked 3 years before I found out one day.
Still never know, and it's not worth the risk.
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Very nice display board, fitting for this type of firearm! I would have to separate from the group on the tour in your museum to take a really good look at that exhibit.
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Like so many others here my "display" sits in a deep, dark place.
When I take group shots I like to use a piece of wood I pulled from a stall inside an old Kansas barn.
The barn could have brought a fortune in wood to resell, but the rich old cattleman with no sense of history didn't want to hear it. He burned it to the ground.
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It's tough to offer suggestions, Jerryatric3! You already set a high bar with your Colt display. Very nice! For your S&W collection, how about using brick or stone? Something evocative of the old S&W factory building.
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Brings back memories
That is a sweet looking display. Harking back to the 1960's and into the 1970's I had wooden gun racks in the den, the spare bedroom, and even in the back window of the Ford (F-100 in those days...no AC, no radio, no carpet). Also had the nice glass door upright gun case for the "nicer" long guns. Mil-surps stood in the corners against the wall. Handguns in drawers, chests, under the truck seat, garage in the tool chest. Ammo locked in a cabinet, except for guns in the truck, and the nightstand, always loaded.
ALL above in a small farm town in upstate New York no less!
Fast forward 55 years and 9 children (all grown and gone now) and 13 grandkids, no longer advisable to "advertise" that you even own guns, much less heaven forbid.. shoot and enjoy guns. So no stickers on my truck windows, no gun racks anywhere, everything locked in safe(s). Ammo locked in containers and stored locked separately from guns.
Display? Only at Thanksgiving time when kids and grandkids come from afar. We are a family of shooters and enjoyers, so we find some time to hit the range, and each has different tastes so I "display" on the spare bedroom quilt, they pick what they want to shoot (AND clean after shoot..****LE 1).
Alas...no display since 2019 with all the Covid stuff. Maybe this year.
In any event...thanks for posting your great barn wood display. I truly wish times would allow me to do something similar with at least my Mil-surps.
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Several years ago completed my collection of Colt Frontier Scout revolvers, one of each prefix/series. Built a display board out of old barn wood and bolted it to wall. Turned out pretty cool. Trying to figure out how to display the Smiths now. Live edge slabs? Coming up blank...how do you guys display your collections??????
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How about something symmetrical to contrast with the random nature of the current display?
Maybe a heraldic type coat-of-arms with 4 fields in the main body. Each of 3 quadrants with one of the 3 revolvers (and maybe a background in each reflecting the era each may have been used)? The 4th quadrant I'd leave empty because there's always room for 1 more gun in the collection.
ETA: Hang on, I see the question was "how do others display their collection?" I'm in the under lock and key camp.
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Nope . My wife is the only other person that knows what's in the safe . No need to display anything .
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I have two rooms dedicated to guns and related stuff. Guns are sitting out as there are no childern in the house anymore (even Grandkids are grown). When we go away all firearms are locked in safes.
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Glass top Meadow's display cases for my favorites.
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I’m way too paranoid to leave firearms and knives out “on display” - wish I could tho. I’m just now relaxing enough to put a few axes up in the barn with some antique fishing rods that I’ve accumulated over the years.
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I usually have a small gun show at the range while I’m there. One of my best buddies has a few displays in his man cave. Here is one. Enjoy.
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Only a few know what’s in these two safes. I know they want keep a dedicated safe cracker out. But they will work fine against an ordinary crack head.
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How do you get to the long guns in the back 2 rows?
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Several years ago completed my collection of Colt Frontier Scout revolvers, one of each prefix/series. Built a display board out of old barn wood and bolted it to wall. Turned out pretty cool. Trying to figure out how to display the Smiths now. Live edge slabs? Coming up blank...how do you guys display your collections??????
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I love the barn wood display shelves, nicely done! I wish I could comfortably display my collection, but worry about break-in and theft, a house alarm does little to stop a determined thief. So, they stay locked away in a safe, and I throw pictures up on the forums to show them off.
The safe is becoming crowded....
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Off topic as usual for me. A few years ago, when I was rummaging around in a box of momentos, my wife suggested I find a way to "display" some of my memories. So bought a "shadow box", and selected small items from my life, that have some special memory for me. For a background, used a faded blouse I wore in Vietnam with patches. Here, my draft card, the shift knob for my TR4, my first and last medical license, my 110, a few Boy and Cub Scout items, my first army pay voucher, the fountain pen I used to write a half million prescriptions, a pic of my '69 Charger R//T, my RVN dog tags and chain, my student ID for Nebraska in '65, the torpedo mechanic pencil my dad gave me in elementary school, the pice of ration box where my nurse marked the 370 patients I saw one day in Central America, a piece of barb wire from my compound in DS. And the twisted axle stub from my 427 Cobra. The captured NVA compass and so forth .
It all means something to me. Love the pics of the firearms others have posted.
All the best... SF VET
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Off topic as usual for me. A few years ago, when I was rummaging around in a box of momentos, my wife suggested I find a way to "display" some of my memories. So bought a "shadow box", and selected small items from my life, that have some special memory for me. For a background, used a faded blouse I wore in Vietnam with patches. Here, my draft card, the shift knob for my TR4, my first and last medical license, my 110, a few Boy and Cub Scout items, my first army pay voucher, the fountain pen I used to write a half million prescriptions, a pic of my '69 Charger R//T, my RVN dog tags and chain, my student ID for Nebraska in '65, the torpedo mechanic pencil my dad gave me in elementary school, the pice of ration box where my nurse marked the 370 patients I saw one day in Central America, a piece of barb wire from my compound in DS. And the twisted axle stub from my 427 Cobra. The captured NVA compass and so forth .
It all means something to me. Love the pics of the firearms others have posted.
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That is an "I Love Me" box. I have several of those and two rooms full of collections, not including firearms. A lot of the "I Love Me" stuff only means something to the owner. Nice grouping.
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My small displays are in my LR.
The display cases are from betterdisplaycases.com in NC.
The long rifle cabinet is from Thomasville and about 75 years old that I drove six hours round trip to get from an estate.
I like to see them.
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Off topic as usual for me. A few years ago, when I was rummaging around in a box of momentos, my wife suggested I find a way to "display" some of my memories. So bought a "shadow box", and selected small items from my life, that have some special memory for me. For a background, used a faded blouse I wore in Vietnam with patches. Here, my draft card, the shift knob for my TR4, my first and last medical license, my 110, a few Boy and Cub Scout items, my first army pay voucher, the fountain pen I used to write a half million prescriptions, a pic of my '69 Charger R//T, my RVN dog tags and chain, my student ID for Nebraska in '65, the torpedo mechanic pencil my dad gave me in elementary school, the pice of ration box where my nurse marked the 370 patients I saw one day in Central America, a piece of barb wire from my compound in DS. And the twisted axle stub from my 427 Cobra. The captured NVA compass and so forth .
It all means something to me. Love the pics of the firearms others have posted.
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Thanks for all the replys.....lots of eye candy and got a couple good ideas I'm exploring. All the concerns of not having them locked in safe very valid. No kids and I've resigned myself to the fact that enjoying them daily is worth the risk of theft. Top of my list right now is the "safe display"....be cool to have the best of both worlds. Thanks again...love all the pics.
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Post 24 is the safe "display" I'm considering...could build a pretty nice display
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My small displays are in my LR.
The display cases are from betterdisplaycases.com in NC.
The long rifle cabinet is from Thomasville and about 75 years old that I drove six hours round trip to get from an estate.
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I'd like to see mine, too...but I prefer to keep them locked up. The sad statement of today's world is "trust no one"! I used to display my vintage Winchester rifles and shotguns (1873, 1876, 1905, etc.) on the wall, and handguns in a glass case, but not any more. Years ago I had a girlfriend who happened to tell her down-and-out brother about a few guns in my apartment. Next thing I know my apartment was broken into and a Model 57 and Colt Python were stolen. No proof, no arrests, no guns. You never know who will be in your house (painter, plumber, electrician, bug man, handyman, neighbor kid) who might innocently tell an acquaintance of the firearms collection he sees there. Now you're set up for a break-in or home invasion. Nope- I prefer to keep a low profile and not advertise to friends or neighbors that I am a shooter and firearms collector. I'm don't think of myself as paranoid, just very careful. Fool me once...
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Sorry but I don't display my firearms except for an 1886 Krapotcheck (sp) which hangs on the wall in the basement. All others put away and out of sight. I'd like to put some out to look at but not in today's environment.
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