storing Lugers ?

[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.