My "Man Cave"

[wundudnee]

Here is my man cave, office, storage area. I wish I could display my firearms on racks and cases, but I also want to keep them home so they rest in my safes.

Some things get done here.

We have a really nice concrete safe room in the basement, but I didn't get it claimed before it was totally filled with Christmas decorations.

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

Raises a question that I ponder once and a while.......

In the peoples Republic of Massachusetts, your collection must be locked in a safe or some sort of locked room. How does having a bunch of your collection in coffee tables under glass or shadowboxes on the wall of shelves comply with an order like that?

Easily! 100% compliance by not being in Massachusetts.

Not something I could do, since I do live in MA, but plenty of others can.

 

[jscheck]

Wow! It would be a pleasure to wander around these rooms and get the history of the treasures! Well done!

 

[ladder13]

Mine is oriented towards wheeled indulgences...

But it does have a corner 'cave' for gun stuff...

More like a man warehouse. Nice.

 

[Rodan]

More like a man warehouse. Nice.

Thanks!

Lifelong dreams, finally realized!

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

I often wonder while I'm discussing a given arm online with yawl and have pulled it out for said discussion, if the boys from the ATF or the MA equivalent came a knocking, am I going to acquire some new jewelry while being escorted off to the grey bar Hilton?????

Has anyone else ever pondered that scenario???

Didn't realize that you actually had another question or two. I certainly remove a gun from my safe occasionally, for discussion or cleaning or repair, but it remains under my direct control, and simultaneously remains perfectly legal. And if someone comes knocking, you do the same thing you would do if you were relieving your alimentary tract: you don't answer the door until you finish what you are doing.

Yes, I have pondered that scenario. In the rare case that I do not have a shirt or jacket covering a sidearm, or I have a long arm out of the safe, I consciously remind myself not to answer to door pounding or phone calls any differently from how I would respond during alimentary-tract relief.

 

[444 Magnum]

OP, tell us about the Springfield carbine and the two lever guns.
Inquiring minds and all that...

 

[jeffrefrig]

All of those pictures of huMAN caves are the reasons why I'm embarrassed to have anyone over!! BUT, everything I see in those beautiful pictures just reminds me: I don't dust or wax my furniture, and there's usually some Weimaraner hair laying around somewhere that needs vacuumed up. Something else I don't care to do! I'm really impressed...ya bunch of show-offs!! One nice thing, though, is that although most of my firearms are locked up, (you never know where there may be the one for each room) I'm that crazy guy that people are all nice to. We're a tight-knit 'hood up here and take care of each other regardless of each others' beliefs. I think everyone up here owns at least one gun. But damn, those huMAN rooms are beautiful!
My wife has never been on this site, as far as I know, but I'm going to have to show her this, as we're planning on moving. Butler County is a half hour North of here and that's my relocation plan.

 

[Dino44]

In the mid nineteen seventies I was in my early teens. I lived in a neighborhood where neighbors actually did things together, like having back yard barbeques, going to parks, lakes, and festivals together. I wish I had the wherewithal to have taken photos back then. One of my neighbors Dad, was an avid hunter and fisherman. He also was a collector of all types of firearms. He had converted the basement area of their home into a place that I could only describe as a cross between a gun store and a bar. The room was probably 16' x 20' if not a little larger. 3 out of the 4 walls had upright rifle racks going around the room. Every vertical space was filled with a rifle. There had to be a couple of hundred at least. The remaining wall had a reloading bench and a few large gun safes. The floor was red and white checkerboard tiles. Along the inner most wall there was vertical glass display cases with 3 shelves going across the length of the room. They were filled to capacity with all sorts of handguns. In the center of the room there was 2 round tables on steel pedestals with a couple of bars stools at each table. There were stained glass lamps hanging above the tables and lighting all the way around the top of the rifle racks. Other smaller cabinets and shelves scattered about the room had hunting, fishing and paraphernalia. At that time, I had no concern or knowledge of firearms, but 50 years later the place is still etched in my memories. Looking back, it was one of the coolest places I've ever seen!

 

[delta-419]

Rifles

The rifles around the desk are very old, the Springfield carbine is a first year issue (1873) 45-70. I picked it up at a gun show in Cedar Rapids, Iowa over 30 years ago for the princely sum of $300. The 1894 Winchester on the left side was a project 38-55 gun proposed to be from the Bull family of the Lakota Sioux. Its a reservation gun circa 1900, was in very poor condition (a parts gun) missing a lot. I restored it to shootable ( single shot) condition in its original configuration. Got the last part last month (mag follower) yet to be installed. The 1892 Winchester caliber 32-20 circa 1895 came out of PA about 25 years ago. It is in NRA very fine condition and was expensive at $400. In answer to one of the thread questions "where are the hounds"? Here they are:

 

[KalamazooKid]

My "Man Cave"

Mine is my barn - I could spend months out here tinkering on stuff! Heavy on the old Coleman camping gear and antique fishing stuff.

 

[ameridaddy]

I find it really exhilarating that I am not the only one who likes to see and feel the guns that he collects. They are usually well used with all the scrapes and dents of a battle harden vet. They have been there and done that. My hobby is not only collecting guns but also the study of war, the instruments of war and the people who employed them. A copy of " The Art Of War" by General Sun Tzu lies on my desk. I also believe a clean desk is a sigh of a sick Mind! The two S&W revolvers are M28s with custom fossil grips by Patrick.

Small world and GMTA - I had that pic of the Spitfire with dark clouds in the background hanging on my office wall for years, along with a big pic of a B-1B low level attack over a lake.
I now regret giving them away when I retired.

 

[JSR III]

Well my tiny space could probably fit into some of your caves about 10 times but we do what we can. Here are a couple photos of one wall before and after.

 

[Rubone]

Mine is more oriented to my two wheeled obsession...

 

[jeffrefrig]

Nice to see a Triumph up above! My brother in law had Tiger 750; fast as all hell. I had a Harley Superglide. He let me take the Trump for a ride. Did you know all the controls were in the wrong places? I didn't! I didn't dump it, but John was laughing his body parts off! My tan turned white! I got it to go forward somehow. My Higher Power got me to stop it!

 

[Kinman]

You neat guys bug me, I live in chaos but I know where everything is...at least for the moment. I work on a vehicle project (one at a time) currently a '29 Model A Ford Tudor which is currently undergoing a complete rear axle rebuild after doing the brakes a few years ago. I mess around with some wood working but found the two do not mix well as sawdust and fine machinery don't lend themselves to success. Thats outside in my shop, inside my work/gun area also doubles as the dry food collection spot (seven years living with the Mormons taught me some things), its a bit cramped but I make out OK. About the time my wife threatens to organize everything because she cant walk through it to get a can of beans is when I clean it up. I haven't seen a clean work bench since I built this one, first for leather work which died off but still surfaces from time to time.
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[AJ]

Here is my man cave, office, storage area. I wish I could display my firearms on racks and cases, but I also want to keep them home so they rest in my safes.

Some things get done here.

We have a really nice concrete safe room in the basement, but I didn't get it claimed before it was totally filled with Christmas decorations.

Nice tractor signs. A friend is showing a couple of tractors in Western PA. He has several at the show. Two of the best are a Hart Parr and a Rumley Oil Pull.

 

[quinn]

My first (maybe the best) man cave started wth a T hangar and one 1946 operable airplane, to which was added a second 1934 airplane in parts, and then a 1952 MGTD. But, those days are long past.

 

[Rubone]

There is a section for my "other " interests.



It shares space with an old friend..

 

[MHF]

Hobby shop

Various hobbies