jpwilly
Member
Looks like all you needs is a room, some wooden crates some collectable stuff and quite a few nice rifles.
Any dedicated gun rooms?
- Thread starter Ohio Gun Guy
- Start date
- Status
justashooter in pa
member
- Joined
- May 31, 2009
- Messages
- 358
take the biggest room you can spare, and put barb wire in the door and claymores to keep the kids out. a gun room is like a swamp: it keeps growing as long as the source flows in, it's not an easy place to get out of, and it's the best place you can find to get away from the rest of the world.
mine is a 20X20 with a fireplace and couch, and wrap around vertical racks with shelves under. wainscotting and stone floor, red wool persian carpet. no TV, no phone, no interruptions. just guns and books and ammo and reloading stuff and rocking chairs and firewood.
trouble is, it's too small. i have the stairs down to it stacked with supplies of all kinds, and a couple of guns i can't remember which. just not enough room for the stuff that keeps showing up at the door. soem of it is spread out in the gunsmithing room on the workbench, too.
the workbench is outside the lock-up, which is steel jail bars on the windows and doors of the main gunroom that can be unlocked and swing open, but will make the job of ransacking the place harder for the average joe. security is important in light of financial and liability concerns. stone walls, so no bashing thru drywall or cutting in with a sawzall.
mine is a 20X20 with a fireplace and couch, and wrap around vertical racks with shelves under. wainscotting and stone floor, red wool persian carpet. no TV, no phone, no interruptions. just guns and books and ammo and reloading stuff and rocking chairs and firewood.
trouble is, it's too small. i have the stairs down to it stacked with supplies of all kinds, and a couple of guns i can't remember which. just not enough room for the stuff that keeps showing up at the door. soem of it is spread out in the gunsmithing room on the workbench, too.
the workbench is outside the lock-up, which is steel jail bars on the windows and doors of the main gunroom that can be unlocked and swing open, but will make the job of ransacking the place harder for the average joe. security is important in light of financial and liability concerns. stone walls, so no bashing thru drywall or cutting in with a sawzall.
jpwilly
Member
Either justashooter is pulling our legs seeing how this is the 1st post or I need to see a picture of this serious man cave!
justashooter in pa
member
- Joined
- May 31, 2009
- Messages
- 358
sorry willy. no pix. don't like painting a bulleseye on my ass.
as for the range: this summer i'm cleaning out the hog barn (55' X 16' with a loft in the 12/12 roof) and building a block wall on the end facing away from the house. i will be hanging a 4' X 8' 1/2" steel plate at a bit of an angle in front of the block to set up for pistol shooting. add a few more lights and it should be good for careful shooters in any kind of weather.
i am putting a new gas furnace in the house while the fed is giving a 30% rebate on new heating systems, and will be moving the 80K BTU oil burner out into the barn so that i can use it as a workshop/range even in the dead of winter.
as for the range: this summer i'm cleaning out the hog barn (55' X 16' with a loft in the 12/12 roof) and building a block wall on the end facing away from the house. i will be hanging a 4' X 8' 1/2" steel plate at a bit of an angle in front of the block to set up for pistol shooting. add a few more lights and it should be good for careful shooters in any kind of weather.
i am putting a new gas furnace in the house while the fed is giving a 30% rebate on new heating systems, and will be moving the 80K BTU oil burner out into the barn so that i can use it as a workshop/range even in the dead of winter.
OP
OP
Ohio Gun Guy
Member
That's the theme (jpwilly) except mine are going in the cabinet, but I like that look.
rembrant.... yeah if I win the lottery I could suffer with a room like that.
rembrant.... yeah if I win the lottery I could suffer with a room like that.
CAS700850
Member
In the dream house I'm designing, and hope one day to actually build, I have a room built off of the finished basement as my home office. It's going to have a serious door with some high end security, the ype to be determined by what's top of the line when I can actually afford to build it. Right now, the plans are for a 12'x20'. The idea is to have the room serve as my gunsafe, and also my home office, with my desk, computer, phone all set up inside, and the walls and shelves lined with books and guns. Ah, to dream!
Ben Shepherd
Member
I've got one. Converted one of the bedrooms into it. Built the reloading bench right into the wall using an old piece of white countertop. Sit at one end and I can use the rockchucker or the case trimmer. Sit at the other end and I can run the Dillon 650.
Bought some of the heavy duty metal shelving from costco for bulk storage. As money allows, I'm going to line the three walls that aren't the bench completely with shelves. And the space on the wall above the bench will be covered with peg board for hanging die sets, shell holders, etc on.
Three things I'd reccomend:
1. Make it bigger than you think you need. I thought mine was big enough. It isn't.
2. White surface on your loading bench. Much easier to see spills along with better lighting for other tasks.
3. More lighting than you'd think needed. At the very least, have one of those flexible clamp mount lights handy.
Bought some of the heavy duty metal shelving from costco for bulk storage. As money allows, I'm going to line the three walls that aren't the bench completely with shelves. And the space on the wall above the bench will be covered with peg board for hanging die sets, shell holders, etc on.
Three things I'd reccomend:
1. Make it bigger than you think you need. I thought mine was big enough. It isn't.
2. White surface on your loading bench. Much easier to see spills along with better lighting for other tasks.
3. More lighting than you'd think needed. At the very least, have one of those flexible clamp mount lights handy.
Last edited:
I like to take a detached garage with an overhead room and set it up as follows:
Downstairs with reloading bench and equipment, hidden safe, stereo, workout equipment, computer, etc.
Upstairs with couch, desk, bookshelfs, guns hung on wall, flags, etc.
I will cry if I have to move and not keep my man palace
Downstairs with reloading bench and equipment, hidden safe, stereo, workout equipment, computer, etc.
Upstairs with couch, desk, bookshelfs, guns hung on wall, flags, etc.
I will cry if I have to move and not keep my man palace
- Status