Gun rack, or other ways of putting up wall hangers?

If I were to hang one I would put it in a box with glass to keep it from collecting dust and keep people from wanting to handle it. But mainly to preserve it. Guess it really depends on age, historic relevance and frailty.

I might suggest decorative brass hooks. There are scores of different sizes and shapes from tack supply stores to Lowes. A small bit of leather or paracord to secure them and the world is your oyster...except in California where they’ll shake loose and hit you in the head if they don’t cause cancer first.

This is a picture hanger that would slip through a trigger guard. Clear the rifle first of course.



Coat hook.



For hanging horse tack. Or firearms, your choice.


The basic wall hook. Lots of sizes, different colors.

I wouldn't rely on drywall anchors, due to the weight of the gun(s). Mount whatever rack you choose directly to the studs.

i use the wall hooks like skyler mentioned, but I attach them to an old piece of re-purposed fence board. I clean the board up with an orbital sander, then go over it with some polyurethane. I have also made some shelves for my collection of hot sauce bottles, a bar, and a few other things with this type of old fence wood.

I have used smith-made wrought iron hooks with felt glued to the inside of the hooks, mounted to the drywall with Molly bolts that had heads blackened with a Sharpie.
Looked pretty good holding my old BB and pellet rifles.

Sebastian the Ibis said:

I'd like to mount them to the drywall above a doorway. I was thinking of using some sort of gunrack so that I can use proper drywall anchors, but I have yet to find a cheap two gun rack online. Also, I'd kinda like them to cross, although not completely sold on this.

Does anyone have any advice (or pictures) of something similar?

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Other than using basic wall hooks wood-screwed into the studs as others mentioned, I can't declare a best idea. The part about displaying the rifles crossed... the Mosin-Nagant bolt handle sticks straight out. One of them displays offside out. Either it won't hang nicely or it'll ding your drywall, or both. I wouldn't advise crossing them... I'd hang them both bolt-side out. Or, if you made your own 2-gun rack, you could design it to hang one rifle one direction and one opposite with the one spaced so the bolt don't contact your drywall.

I wanted a rack above my workbench to store the one rifle which inevitably was ALWAYS out. I wanted it to be aesthetically attractive, or at least not UNATTRACTIVE, utilitarian, without being retro-modernist (aka, not steam-punkish or this heavy handed industrial decor style). I found some tool hanging hooks at Home Depot (maybe it was Lowe’s, or Menard’s, I forget, I just know I found them when I was looking for new drain hose, which was nearly sold out all over town), dipped them in plasti-dip to protect my firearms, painted some screws to color match, mounted them to a cedar plank my wife painted and distressed. The plank is on hidden hangers on studs, so it’ll hold a couple hundred pounds. It’s just a 2 rifle rack, meaning it’ll hold the “one” which always seems to be out and in the way when a new project comes in, plus one extra in case my workbench is extra slovenly when something walks in.

I have a wooden 3 gun rack with a small latched storage area mounted on my wall. It holds my airsoft, BB, and pellet guns very well. I would never use it to mount up real firearms. And it is fast enough to grab the BB gun to drive off pest animals and wild dogs. I have it mounted to the wall with 6x2" screws with wall anchors. I bought the rack at a flea market for next to nothing.

Not very decorative, but they'd probably be good for earthquakes
https://www.amazon.com/Hold-Up-Displays-Remington-Winchester/dp/B06XG7D6KH

Sebastian the Ibis said:

I have yet to find a cheap two gun rack online.

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Lots of them on ebay. https://www.ebay.com/b/Wall-Rack-with-2-Guns/73961/bn_73321865

These are very unobtrusive
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rifle-Wa...546308?hash=item41d2ebd9c4:g:0~EAAOSwRq5dS-UX