storing Lugers ?

Guys, where do you keep 'em ? My bolo broom hangs on the wall in a repro shoulder harness and my HSc is kept between the mattresses, loaded with Winchester Silvertip .32acp, hammer down and safety off but I can't decide how I want to store the P.08. Any thoughts ?

[Kyrie]

I use "BoreStores" - available from Brownells:


Brownells, Inc. (parts and tools)

200 S. Front Street

Montezuma, IA 50171

Voice: 614-623-5401

FAX: 614-623-3896

http://brownells.com/


Best regards,


Kyrie

[Chuck Shoun]

I really don't mean to be prudish, so please don't take my response that way. I'm just offering an alternative suggestion.


I keep my firearms in a locked safe with a vapor barrier pad inside. The firearms are not stored in the holsters, nor in boxes. This is so the effects of the vapor barrier can reach all surfaces of the metal.


I realize that not everyone can afford a safe, or wants one. But the comfort I have when not at home, knowing those guns are locked up is important to me.

I follow both Kyrie's and Chuck's methods. I keep the pistols in BoreStores which so far, after a year, have lived up to their claim of preventing rust. I then stash them into a small Sentry safe (available for about $115 at OfficeMax) bolted to the concrete floor. You want the kind that is burglar-proof more than fire-proof, as the grief you would have replacing a burned gun is far less than the grief you would have if some punk steals it and cuts loose with it at the schoolyard.

When you use Borestores, you will find that you can easily cram 15 or 20 pistols in a small safe without any damage. I would also use some of that Napier vapor stuff which leaches out coats the guns with a protective barrier, but I have not yet been able to find it.

[Steve Lempitski]

[G.T.]

I have stored anywhere from 10 to 50 different pistols in my Browning safe for the last 20+ years! Here are some of the parameters that must be considered.....1) depending on where you live, rust protection may not be the biggest problem, keeping the handling rash off them might be! By handling rash, I mean the tendenancy for mint guns to migrate toward 99 or 98% guns, just through handling, in and out, of your safe....now don't start smirking, anyone who has ever displayed large quantities of units at gun shows, knows exactly what I'm talking about......just taking an unprotected gun out of the safe can be quite a task, especially when it is back, and underneath, several other guns! 2) the ability to easily identify, which pistol is where, in your safe...now this again is pretty easy when you only have two, but start getting a collection of them and the problem is self evident! Here is what I have done in the past...when I was in the mid-west and went to shows in the winter, I would coat (wipe down) every pistol with Rem Oil, (had a nasty looking silicon cloth with every think from oil to grease on it for that purpose!) I would then place the unit in plastic containers, like tupperware cold cut keepers (holds four units each) I would label them with the contents, and make sure they were packed that way..I could bring them from a freezing cold vehicle, into the show and let them normalize in the warmth overnight, next morning I would set up my display, with no trace of condensation or moisture! Lately (down in the AZ)I have been packing them one each, still in the zip lock, in a small size cardboard box. (I haven't done any shows for awhile) and lable the box ends with the contents...this way, you keep the rash and the rust off, and they can be stored almost indefinetly! Also you can tell at a glance, what is where....I have never had a storage blem on a pistol since I started this method! Till....later....G.T.

[Marvin]

gewehr guy,


As to the safe storage, there are many different ways to keep them safe and this is a matter of taste.


I am fortunante that I have a build in vault and I can arrange my pistols on pegboard to enjoy. For even this stroage, I receommend the preservative grease called RIG (Rust Inhibiting Grease) and keep a lambswool pad coated with rig to wipe the pistols down with after handling. RIG is a well know and trusted grease for long term preservation. The Bore-Stor cases are also and excellent way to prevent rust. If you do have a safe, a moisture absorbing material in the safe will be a bif help. If you use all three methods, you should never have any problems. As G.T. stated, deifferent parts of the country from the salt air coast to the dry deserts make a big difference in how often they should be checked. As you probably know most of this from other firearm storage, but I like the RIG as a rust preventive coating.


Marvin

[HÃ?Â¥kan Spuhr]

I live in Sweden and we have fairly strict storage laws.

Noone is allowed to store a gun outside of an approved safe.

Espesially gunsafes are sold for around 3-400 USD here and everybody has them.

But when the collections comes over 20 guns the police does no longer accept the sheetmetal gunsafes and do instead requires some kind of vault.


Some does build their own bankvault like marvin did, and I have bougth a Big 3 ton safe from a bank.

I was lucky as i got it for 300 USD incl. transportation (noone wants those bastards as few have a place for them)


Mine is placed in my workshop and I have a small heater inside it so i keep the heat up there.

Even thogh my workshop don't have any heating my guns doenst have any kind of rustproblems thanks to my little heater in the safe.


I think that all gunowners SHOULD take necesary precautions to block people for stealing their guns.

The risk of legal guns coming out to criminals is a big argument from the antigunners and I don't think they deserves that argument.


If you can afford a gun, you can also afford to keep it well locked in.


Regards HÃ?Â¥kan

[Dok]