Rifle Rods to increase storage space

[leadcounsel]

Has anyone every used the Rifle Rods storage products and willing to share their experiences? Is it a gimmick or does it actually increase storage space?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rX6jIutRA-I

http://www.storemoreguns.com/collections/gun-safe-accessories/products/rifle-rods-kit-large

I'm thinking that if the increase in space makes room for even 1 more rifle, it pays for itself. And for a few rifles, then heck yes.

And removing the unnecessary shelving alone will certainly add interior space...

 

[Arizona_Mike]

Looks interesting. I recently started using the trick of taking the bolts out and storing them on the door to fit a lot more.

Mike

 

[Elkins45]

The bolt trick is next on my list to try, but for now I make a lot more room by standing half the rifles on their butt and half on their muzzle.

 

[wally]

The bolt trick is next on my list to try, but for now I make a lot more room by standing half the rifles on their butt and half on their muzzle.

Most gun storage are sized for bolt or lever guns, mostly without scopes. With a safe full of ARs and AKs alternating muzzle up muzzle down is pretty much required from day one

 

[rcmodel]

IMO: Taking the bolts out is a terrible idea!

That is why there are so many old rifles floating around with missing bolts!

Some day, maybe after you are gone, they will become seperated for whatever reason.
Then what you got?

Bolts with no rifles?
Or rifles with no bolts is what you have.

If you are that out of room in your safe?
You need another safe.

rc

 

[Arizona_Mike]

IMO: Taking the bolts out is a terrible idea!

That is why there are so many old rifles floating around with missing bolts!

Some day, maybe after you are gone, they will become seperated for whatever reason.
Then what you got?

I won't have anything. I'll be dead.

Bolts with no rifles?
Or rifles with no bolts is what you have.

No just dead . . .

If you are that out of room in your safe?
You need another safe.

I have several and need more.

rc

Mike

 

[rcmodel]

The guys that raid your house to clean it out for the estate sale don't read tags?

Then, there was a friend of mine years ago that had two gun safes full of collector grade early Kimber of Origon rifles with the same 1 digit serial numbers.

They stole the safe with the bolts in it, but couldn't move the safe with all the high-dollar rifles in it.

Never recovered.
Sold the boltless rifles for .10 cents on the dollar.

IMO: Its just a bad idea to seperate bolts from actions for any reason.

rc

 

[otrman]

I use them and they work as advertised. My safe is either 36 or 38 guns by mfg. claims, have 47 in it using the rods and still room for a few more. Takes little trial and error, some rifles fit better next to ones better than others. Keeps them all standing up straight without touching each other or any of the nice lining of the safe that just loves to suck the oil off the barrels.

 

[forward observer]

I installed a set in my smaller safe back in February, and I am very happy with the system. I was able to increase from 15 long guns to 21 in that safe. The big advantage is the ease of getting to a rifle in the back by only having to remove 2 others at the most and not half of the safe like I used to do.

Here's a link to where I posted about it.

gun rod

I haven't got there yet,but when I need to, I will install them in my larger safe.

Cheers

 

[redneck2]

I gotta do something. I have multiple AR's with scopes and each seems to take the room of three regular guns.

The other thing I gotta figure out is some quick way to cover the butt stocks so they don't bang together. I've got a couple with guns socks on them, but they are a pain to put on and remove, particularly on a larger gun with scope

 

[Elkins45]

I wonder if a fellow couldn't improve the idea by replacing the top shelf with a sheet of plywood drilled with holes in a grid pattern? You could drop 1/4 dowels down through the top and into the barrels. Of course, this method would mean you would need to scoot stuff around on the shelf to lift the rods, so maybe their version using Velcro is better...but it's not cheap.

 

[Jim Watson]

"IMO: Taking the bolts out is a terrible idea!
That is why there are so many old rifles floating around with missing bolts!"

And the same applies to magazines.
You may have multiple magazines per detachable magazine firearm and no room in the safe for all of them, but I think you should store the gun with one seated at least. Especially if magazines are scarce or expensive.

 

[cfullgraf]

I used to store guns without magazines but a year or two ago changed my mind. At least each gun that uses a detachable has one magazine at its disposal.

I store many of the long guns that I have that are not shot very often in gun sacks. It protects them from safe rash.

I have a rod kit for my safe but have not tried it yet. It looks like it has potential.

 

[wally]

but I think you should store the gun with one seated at least

Agreed but seated mags take too much space, I generally can find space behind or between guns on the floor for the gun's magazine.

 

[leadcounsel]

I wonder if a cheaper, and better solution, would be wooden dowels, with a small piece of wood covered in Velcro tacked to the dowel on one end, and then an inexpensive sheet of Velcro from a fabric store stapled on the underside of the shelf...

I had briefly though about some sort of grid pattern, or a piece of shop peg board, but the problems of gravity and all... Dropped something through a top of a shelf would simply be too cumbersome and problematic for a variety of reasons.

 

[dab102999]

I purchased mine thru deans safes. Seems like around $30 for a 10 pack with the velcro and like $15 for extra packs of rods. I had a sudden need to expand a safe and didn't have $$$ disposable for another safe. I have roughly 50 rifles stuffed on a 30 gun safe and none of them touch each other. I thought about trying to do something like the dowel suggestion above but after using these rods don't see how I could do it any better. Dowels would limit your placement and no way I would end up as easy as it is now. Plus with different length guns would be to hard to dowel. Make sure any small caliber (22) you have at least 2-3 inches a over your barrel to shelf. Anything larger caliber the rod will go all the way in....scopes will force you to get creative and I always store my guns with bolts and levers open so took me a few times to get things positioned like I liked.

 

[Rio Laxas]

Thanks for posting about these. I'd never heard of them before but will be giving them a try now.