Total cost was less than $4000. The door was only $700. There is 1/4" plate steel in two walls, cement foundation in the others. I chose 1/4 over 1/2, mostly because my wife couldn't carry the big stuff down the stairs. It isn't Ft. Knox, but out of site worked for dad for 50 years.
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ecam8000, you just made the best entrance to the forum that I can remember.
I don't have any heirloom guns. Just a coupla dozen guns, half dozen rifles, that I've bought. I keep them in a safe in Hawaii while I work in Japan, and enjoy them on my annual leaves.
But I am thinking, when I retire to my home in Hawaii and am there all the time, maybe I'll just pick one room to display them, and insure the heck out of 'em. Keep the ammo always locked in the safe for safety, except for maybe one or two loaded home defense guns.
I'm thinking if they're stolen, I'd be unhappy, but with a couple of exceptions they would not be that hard to replace with cash. I'd like to be able to enjoy them, have them around me, be able to pick them up casually when I feel like it, without needing to open the safe each time I wanted one.
I think under glass would be nice. Maybe a glass topped coffee table. Pistol or two on my desk. Rifles on wall racks.
But I am thinking, when I retire to my home in Hawaii and am there all the time, maybe I'll just pick one room to display them, and insure the heck out of 'em. Keep the ammo always locked in the safe for safety, except for maybe one or two loaded home defense guns.
I'm thinking if they're stolen, I'd be unhappy, but with a couple of exceptions they would not be that hard to replace with cash. I'd like to be able to enjoy them, have them around me, be able to pick them up casually when I feel like it, without needing to open the safe each time I wanted one.
I think under glass would be nice. Maybe a glass topped coffee table. Pistol or two on my desk. Rifles on wall racks.
Dad was a Smith fan, but also collected other brands as well. Most of the carvings on the hanging wall are his work. I just hated the idea of locking in safes. The place is a mess right now, I've been working on reloading and rearanging.
Joni_Lynn
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Ok, I got my breath back.............such a nice gun room. Wow.
Welcome to the forum.
Welcome to the forum.
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Hubba, Hubba! All it needs is a fridge full of Cerveza, a urinal, and a couple of chairs for buddies to sit in and swap lies with.
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Hopefully in the next few months as I depart this apartment in which I have such little room, I can start converting the guest cottage that comes with the house my wife and I are buying into my shop. I have alot of framed gun ads and such that are going to at least go on the walls.
ecam8000
Welcome to the forum..
Now that that's over with.. I think I hate you...
NICE gun room.. thanks for posting.....
Welcome to the forum..
Now that that's over with.. I think I hate you...
NICE gun room.. thanks for posting.....
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