Vertical rifle rack

[Nate C.]

Any suggestions on a source of an inexpensive, no-frills, but solidly made upright rifle rack? Ideally one that sits on the floor and doesn't have to be leaned against the wall.

[Wind]

Hey there Nate C. -- I build a bunch of these. They run about $60 unfinished. They fold up for transport and can come in many flavors. In your case there will prolly be some shipping too. Best regards. Wind

[J Miller]

One of those would be just the ticket for my gun room. Especially when I'm cleaning my rifles as I like to turn them muzzle down on a folded up rag to let the crud drain from the bores.

Joey likie ... to levers up ^^.

Joe

[Nate C.]

Do those come in an 8 (or better yet) 12 gun capacity?

[Wind]

Hey there Nate C. -- I sent you an e-mail about these. Best regards. Wind

[KSFlatheadhunter]

I bought a small fold up steel saw horse from Lowe's or Home Depot several years ago and bolted a 1x6 to the top. Before bolting the 1x4, I outlined and jig saw cut notches for barrels. It have served quite nicely at several shoots. I will try to take a pic of it when I get home tonight to show you.

Darin

[win38-55]

Go to this site I built mine from there online plans and it came out great.


http://7.62x54r.net/MosinID/MosinRacks.htm

[AJMD429]

These ideas may or may not help, but regarding the 'dowel' concept, I made my first one to go under a wall-hung bookshelf that functioned essentially like the ceiling of the safe in the pics below. For that application, the dowels just angled straight forward, vs. angling to the center and forward as in the safe, since in the safe, the side-wall racks are at a 90 degree angle to the user. I don't have pics of that one, because we moved and didn't re-mount the shelf.

For inside a safe, I suggest tearing out the 'factory' rack(s) and replacing them with wooden dowels, anchored from a rail about 24" up the side, angled towards the front/center of the safe - it clutters up the inside of the safe way less, yet allows for high capacity of long guns stored muzzle-up or muzzle-down. These pics are of the first 'trial' rail section I made to get the dimensions right; adding the center section (if desired) is simply a matter of using a 2x4" or even grey PVC pipe anchored to the rear wall of the safe, then coming forward; the dowel rods (glued or pinned) will support it from the ceiling. You could use rubber-coated 1/8" dowels instead of 3/8" wood dowels if desired. Any rack sections on the rear wall of the safe only need the dowels to come straight forward; I didn't wind up putting a rack on the rear wall, though, as the middle, two-sided rack, plus the ones on each side wall had more than enough capacity.



For an informal gun room or at a range-shack, Lowe's sells this plastic shelf for around $20, as a 'garden-tool' holder for the garage. It is lightweight (but weather-proof!), so I screwed it to the wall against tippage. You could also simply keep a bag of shot or a few boxes of lead bullets on the bottom for stability. It holds a variety of long and hand guns really well.



It sits in the 'guy shack' we use for a shooting range

...Hey, we don't have a basement, or even a garage, so I had to build some kind of man-space so my son and I didn't turn all effeminate or anything.
We do sometimes let one of them come back and shoot, though...


For a formal/decorative type shelf, I would defer to the woodworkers here.

[olyinaz]

Nice manshack!!

Oly

[KSFlatheadhunter]

Here are a couple of pics. I wish the legs extended out with a little more angle. You have to position the gun one on each side and add one to each side as you go to keep the weight on each side roughly equal.

Darin

[Ysabel Kid]

Cool ideas all!!!

[Nate C.]

Go to this site I built mine from there online plans and it came out great.


http://7.62x54r.net/MosinID/MosinRacks.htm

This is pretty much exactly what I had in mind.