Safe Optimization

[CLASSIC12]

It's getting crammed in my safes, both for handguns and long guns. I decided to try the rods offered by guns storage solutions for the long guns

It does work well, but I was running out of rods with the 20 rods kit, and it's quite expensive for plastic rods and a piece of cloth, abt $ 100 here in Switzerland from Brownells. So I decided to make a few more rods for cheap.

 

[Jessie]

Good idea. I've used the plastic rods but find they bend with time unless it's perfectly vertical.

 

[Llance]

classic12, I see in the one picture a Schmit Rubin, but I am unable to tell if it is 1911 rifle or the carbine, or the later 1931 model, could you please enlighten me? I have a 1911ncarbine but don't know who carried it in training as there was no note in the buttstock. Mine has serial number 139331

All of my wood stocked rifles get stored muzzle down to prevent oils from the metal soaking into the wood and making it weaker.

 

[CLASSIC12]

classic12, I see in the one picture a Schmit Rubin, but I am unable to tell if it is 1911 rifle or the carbine, or the later 1931 model, could you please enlighten me? I have a 1911ncarbine but don't know who carried it in training as there was no note in the buttstock. Mine has serial number 139331

All of my wood stocked rifles get stored muzzle down to prevent oils from the metal soaking into the wood and making it weaker.

It's a 1940 built K31 with diopter sights. I posted about it here :

Waffenfabrik Bern K31

 

[Llance]

Thank you, sir. At one time I had a 1911 rifle but the buttstock beat up my shoulder so bad it gave me a real flinch. I mean so bad I couldn't even hold to zero at 50 yards. It was that double curve butt plate that got to me. I quit shooting for an hour and then shot a .22 Mauser which got me back to shooting straight. I never shot that rifle again. The 1911 carbine has a shotgun type buttstock, and I can shoot that like it was meant. So we can stand shoulder to shoulder, shoot one or two rounds and then go home.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

Classic12, I do not know the firearm storage laws in Switzerland, but I would make a sealed gun room if I were you!

 

[326MOD10]

Great use of your space and resources to help with the storage of your impressive collection.

I have a Liberty home safe for my handguns and ran out of shelving space. Contacted Liberty and they advised they no longer had spare shelving for the model I had but the kind lady on the phone was nice enough to send me a bunch of the clips the shelves rest on.

I was able to get some lumber cut to fit and used the Bore Store mats to cover them and it fits in nicely.

Great use of what you could get to fix your issue!

 

[CLASSIC12]

Just put one more in the first safe, so three more than previously, from eight to eleven, five being scoped

 

[chief38]

Just be careful about keeping your bores coated with a rust preventative! Wood contains and attracts moisture. Some sort of plastic or synthetic rod would have been a better choice I believe.

 

[dmar]

Nice solution, and love your collection! I had a similar issue with space, and had a situation where one of my hunting rifles ended up with a safe ding in the stock. .

I ended up buying "Bore Stores" gun case/socks, the regular thinner gun socks for all of my rifles. I found that I was able to fit many more rifles by just alternating them butt down and butt up, and then some in the middle. The padding of the gun socks makes it so there's not an issue with packing them in together/touching side by side. Have never had another safe ding, too!