Trapper in a Safe?

[kenken0269]

This may have covered before but I couldn't find a thing on it. In my safe I have several guns with 20" or longer barrels that fit just fine. I have a 9422m Trapper that when you set it in the safe, the barrel don't reach the upper landing to hold the gun. Does anyone else have this problem and how have y'all fixed it? I could just put some bricks in there and go about my way but I take pride in my stuff. I want it to look good inside my safe when I open it. Someone may see in it and I want it to be organized. Levers here, Bolts actions here, Pumps here, Pistols here, etc.

Just was wondering what y'all have done.

Thanks

kenken

[RIHMFIRE]

go get a carbon arrow and stick in the barrel....
with an insert where the broadhead would be...or
I have seen some use wooden dowels...but wood will hold moisture...

[FWiedner]

I had rifles and carbines that either because of the sights (scopes) that were mounted or because of shorter barrel length (Trappers) did not fit well into any rack I had.

Seems to me that blocks in a safe would take up a lot of floor space unless you have more than one gun that you're having the problem with. I tried leaning them against the wall of my safe with padding, but it wasn't a good solution.

When I built my new 10-gun rack I addressed those issues as part of the design. Made the case deeper and the barrel rest lower.

[rjohns94]

In my cabinet, or should say Mod71alaska's cabinet, the trapper sits on several boxes of ammo for that caliber. works just fine for me. I use this for my TDS, my Car-15, and soon for my NKJ trapper .44.

[kenken0269]

My safe is a Liberty and the barrel landing is not adjustable with the middle divider that is in it. I don't think that it will sit on boxes of 22mag bullets very well also.

Thanks for the input.

kenken

[firefuzz]

go get a carbon arrow and stick in the barrel....
with an insert where the broadhead would be....

This works. Or a piece of brazing rod cut to length and bent into a closed hook "J" at the muzzle end.


Rob

[Slick]

I keep most of my collectable folding knives inside a .50-cal ammo can. I keep that ammo can against the back of my vault with a piece of carpet velcro'ed to the its top. Then I use the ammo can as a platform to set my extra-short rifles on.

[J Miller]

A piece of acetel (plastic) rod will work as well. Won't attract moisture and won't hurt anything else. Not sure where to suggest getting it though. Will ask wife when she gets home if she knows of a local source.
She gets all hers through mail order.

Joe

[Griff]

I set mine off to the side. Leanin' up and the first thing out and the last one back in.

[jnyork]

Have been using a brass rod for years, works fine.

[Topside]

If you have a custom golf club making shop close by, see if the clubmaker has some old graphite golf shafts. If you can get some shafts designed for woods, their tip diameter will be .335 of an inch and you can sand them on a belt sander to mak'em fit smaller calibers. In my shop I always had plenty of old ones I might never use and would have been glad to give away a few for tomato stakes or whatever.
T.

[Ysabel Kid]

My safe is large enough that I have two sections. One for "tall" or long firearms, and the other side for carbines and shorter longarms. Works pretty well!

[GoatGuy]

http://www.storemoreguns.com This outfit is the ticket for gaining more room in your safe. Can simply and quickly accomodate storage of various barrel lengths. A close friend picked one of the kits at the Tulsa Show. I'm impressed how easy it solved the problem of his crowded, disorganized gun safe.

[78CJ]

Had the same problem, one day at work a while back I was shipped my new laptop with a piece of eggcrate foam in the box. Works like a charm, they don't slip and will not mar a thing.

Ryan

[AJMD429]

I've got a shorter safe with a lower shelf, so I'll be glad to store that Trapper for you, if you want...

[2571]

Box of Quaker oats works & cereal absorbs humidity. Change out x6mos. Feed to dog -- they're nasty with all that moisture in them.

[richerich]

I can't keep my safe nice and tidy too many guns for em' all to fit right I need a bigger safe.

[Sixgun]

Yea, me too. I took the 10 cent factory rifle racks out of the safe and burned 'em in the wood stove. Made my own out of oak. It was simple. I cut a mess of oak boards that were about 1 and 1/2" X 1" and made a "box" that fits very snuggly to the walls of the safe. There's 3 rows across with a notch cut out every 3". I can slide this up or down in the safe to accomodate rifles with barrels any length.----------Sixgun

[TX50Cal]

Yea, me too. I took the 10 cent factory rifle racks out of the safe and burned 'em in the wood stove. Made my own out of oak. It was simple. I cut a mess of oak boards that were about 1 and 1/2" X 1" and made a "box" that fits very snuggly to the walls of the safe. There's 3 rows across with a notch cut out every 3". I can slide this up or down in the safe to accomodate rifles with barrels any length.----------Sixgun

Sixgun, could you post a picture of that setup?
Dave in TX

[salvo]

The shorties hang on the door

[AJMD429]

I also removed the 'built-in' rack, and replaced it with these; they allow variable-length guns to be easily secured, PLUS don't take up as much room for the rack itself. Having the dowels angled towards the front at the top makes it much easier to slip a gun in and out without feeling like everything has to shift around or like I'm snaking a china goblet out from behind a bunch of others.



I put one on left and right sides, and was deciding on a freestanding one up the middle, or just another across the back with non-angled dowels, but instead I found it easier to just put seldom-used guns 'out in the middle', slipped into gun-socks; the frequent-flyers go in the racks.

[kenken0269]

Hey Sixgun,

Let me see what you are talking about, that you have done.

kenken

[Sixgun]

Self Explanitory---Sixgun

[kenken0269]

Outstanding. I am speechless. Is this a personal collection?

kenken

[AJMD429]

Outstanding. I am speechless. Is this a personal collection?

Rumor has it they're all life-size styrofoam models, or perhaps the 'safe' is only 8" tall, and they're all plastic ones from the Ken & Barbie Cowboy doll collection...