Hanging handguns from the safe door

[Jeff H]

I've seen some pouches for sale that are supposed to attach to the safe door so that you can put the handguns there and thereby freeing up all the space in the main part of the safe for the rifles.

Anyone do this already and do you have any pics?

Anyone recommend a particular product or a home made solution?

 

[Reloadron]

The safe I have included the area of the entire front door with pouches and handgun holders. I can post a pic when I get home from work but there are plenty of gun safes on the market designed that way.

There have also recently been a few threads where members created and showed their home brew solutions with pictures. Some were very nice and creative too! Maybe a forum search of terms like safe will turn a few threads. Again, some members did real nice work with their doors.

Ron

 

[Ehtereon11B]

Some safe brands come with door panels to hold handguns already. Winchester is one of them that I know of because that is where I keep mine. Here is a video I found that shows someone installing them step-by-step.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4iqMoIG_gc&feature=g-user-c

 

[au01st]

$40 at Academy Sports

 

[dab102999]

I know what you are talking about but do not have any pics. I have a set of those that use velcro. Once I got them I relised real quick that the fabric on my door is not sucured all the way around so I took it down and used doubled sided tape behind the fabric against the steel. Now as far as those holsters go I have not had one move one bit, but at the same time I do not feel comfortable putting my full sized ones in them. Even though they have not moved I still have that image in my head of opening the door and seeing handguns on the floor of my safe. So I use then for my smaller handguns like LCP's and that size, and I also use them to put my extra mags in to keep the clutter off my shelf. And I bought some of those wire shelf hangers for my larger guns and love those. Again, am I saying that the velcro ones dont work, no. But I am not totally convinced they won't fall with a heavy handgun in them. And I would love to buy one of those door hanging set up's but can't see spending $100 plus to hold 5 or 10 handguns. For $100 I could buy 10 velcro holders and 20 wire hangers.

 

[Canuck-IL]

Safe came with a pegboard inside - I suppose you could add one if you can figure out a means of isecurely installing stand-offs on the back of the door. Std pegbaord hooks with surgical tubing or heat shrink on them.



/Bryan

 

[monet61]

My safe is pretty small, but it's stout. I use the velcro holsters and have had no issues with them. I really like the pegboard one someone posted.

 

[cfullgraf]

Peg board and hooks/racks similar to Canuck-IL

 

[Reloadron]

This is how mine came and a few days after it was delivered. Velcro is wonderful stuff!



Ron

 

[jhco]

My safe door looks just like the one "Canuck-IL" posted, It works very well but I have found you have to coat the metal hooks with a rubber coating for metal frame guns to prevent wear to the gun finish.

 

[browningguy]

My Canon came with this door layout, it has 6 spots for pistols, 1 for shotgun, and several pouches I keep mags in.



My other safe did not come with anything but I got one of the velcro attached hangers as shown in one of the previous posts that has a set of pistol pouches running down the door.

 

[steven58]

Same system (and Zanotti brand of safe) as Canuck,

I use 1/8" X 1" chromed hooks covered with clear "fish-tank" aerator tubing. A bit o spit and the tubing slides right on the hook. When dry it stays in place and does not rot away over time like surgical tubing will. And it's cheap!

Also highly recommend using some sort of clips or keepers on the hooks so they stay in the pegboard when you remove guns.

I find that 2 hooks, one through the trigger guard and one fore or aft depending on the balance will stabilize any handgun I own on the door and prevents them swinging (and rubbing) as they will when only held on one hook.

 

[tunnug]

I did the same as steven58 but used 2" hooks about 4-5" apart and set my guns with the hammer down like a V , barrel in one hook and grip in the other, they won't move and are easy to grab or put in.