Dealing with "Scope Clash" in a tight cabinet

[wytonpjs]

You need a bigger cabinet

I actually have 3 gun cabinets and 3 ammo, bolt, moderator safes in use, plus the RL7+ in store. The cabinet in question is the “ready use” locker with other shotguns, rifles and pistols elsewhere, but not as easily accessible. It’s about to get worse as I need to add a shotgun into the weekly use set with the onset of our shoot season.

Problem is is not cabinets, it’s suitable locations in a modern house - have no room to bring the 7+ into service. FWIW, I also have a 10+ lurking in the garage, bought off here, in a wooden furniture surround. Refurbishing that and repainting it has not happened for 2 years as in this house, there’s sadly no place for it here

 

[Len the dog]

I don’t suppose you have a small spare room that could be fitted out as a gun room, or is that testing your better half’s unconditional love for her husband just a little too far?

 

[Mike L]

I thought everyone just buys a property with a gun room as standard?!

 

[wytonpjs]

I thought everyone just buys a property with a gun room as standard?!

It’s uppermost in my thoughts as we look for somewhere else - SWIMBO has her sewing room so……….

 

[Len the dog]

In uppermost in my thoughts as we look for somewhere else - SWIMBO has her sewing room so……….

Hahahaha, you must be new to this marriage lark.

 

[Scotty123]

Put your guns in gun socks
It will at least stop them banging and getting scratched

 

[wytonpjs]

I don’t suppose you have a small spare room that could be fitted out as a gun room, or is that testing your better half’s unconditional love for her husband just a little too far?

Trust me, it’s sadly tested and stretched. We have 5 “bedrooms” and it’s not enough! As above, SWIMBO has her sewing room, I have the study (I still work from home) and both kids (still at home have their rooms) - both are certificate holders so this adds to the problem. “My” study as well as being my work place is also everyone else’s too difficult place and books, DVDs, memorabilia, shooting stuff etc aggregates in there (wife has 2 floor to ceiling cupboards full of material for never started projects in there too). I’ve started a clear out in there and will possibly get a cabinet in there but there are only 2 external walls so options are limited.

 

[wytonpjs]

Put your guns in gun socks
It will at least stop them banging and getting scratched

Swaro scopes are in neoprene covers.

 

[wytonpjs]

Hahahaha, you must be new to this marriage lark.

Sadly no - it’s a mystery after 37 years how we are still together…………

 

[308rws]

I think we all have a similar problem to some degree. I use neoprene scope coats on all my rifles and interspace the shotguns. Works well for me.

 

[Colonel]

I have quick release rings on 3 of my rifles, so my scopes do not go in the gun safe.
The rings are expensive but then the scopes cost more

 

[Len the dog]

I have a Brattonsound RL5+ for four rifles but only three fit because they all have side parallax scopes fitted, the poor old 22LR has been relegated to the shotgun cabinet but because it also has a scope it is very inconveniently just stood side on in front of the lesser used shotguns. With the best will in the world it is never going to fit 5 rifles, 4 being the most I can see working.
The barrel finger foam is obviously cut with 5 slots but I may try replacing it with a homemade 4 slot replacement and making a staggered base, as described earlier.

I am aware that this approach does seem a little defeatist as I am never going to fit that absolute must-have fifth rifle in there sometime in the future, but I shall cross that bridge when I surely get to it.

I wonder if the various gun cabinet makers have ever considered a carousel approach, it would mean a deeper cabinet but only a single narrow door to allow the removal of one firearm at a time. Most of the time we are limited by the width of the cabinet, the depth being less of a concern.

 

[bullet chucker]

Sounds to me, there is room for one' more gun safe it SWIMBO'S BIT.?

BC.

 

[wytonpjs]

Sounds to me, there is room for one' more gun safe it SWIMBO'S BIT.?

BC.

My life would be over as I currently know it, pretty damm quick! Having collected 4 cleaned red skulls this morning, she showed polite interest whilst I was admiring them on the dining room table but absolutely no interest in having any of them in the house.

Marriage - it's the sum of its parts, only question is whether the balance is equitable!

 

[bullet chucker]

So' What's yours is hers, What's hers is her own?

BC.

 

[VSS]

My life would be over as I currently know it, pretty damm quick! Having collected 4 cleaned red skulls this morning, she showed polite interest whilst I was admiring them on the dining room table but absolutely no interest in having any of them in the house.

Marriage - it's the sum of its parts, only question is whether the balance is equitable!

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Do as I do.
Leave them in a pile on the living room floor until eventually she gets so fed up of tripping over them she asks you to hang them up to get them out of the way.
Result!

 

[Vince1968]

I use pipe foam lagging for my scopes and rifles, they’re in socks too and I label the position of each gun on the cabinet door to prevent confusion and unnecessary in and out of each rifle.

The lagging foam can be cut using a pair of wall papering scissors, it’s especially handy for long barrel pistols and for transporting them also in Plano cases.

 

[antsa]

I'm always looking for a better solution for storing the girls in my safe. The current version is placing them after season. Not much club range work being done at the moment so these two, a .22 and a .260, are at the back. As snake season is in full swing here the shotty has been moved from the back wall to the very front sharing the front row with my two foxing favourites, the .222 and one of my .223s. My .308 and the other .223, a heavy barrel varmint are in-between.
Come Autumn, they'll be rearranged again.

Cheers

 

[urban]

I have four shotguns and three rifles in my RL5+. FEO says that I need to get a bigger cabinet if I want more - but I swear I could fit one more in there. Shotguns are all in socks. Expensive scope has a neoprene cover. One rifle goes into the cabinet without its scope. Body of the cabinet also contains 2000 primers and a mod.

I think others in this thread are just not trying hard enough!

 

[Bowland blades]

I got a second 7 gun safe . I do rationalise what i keep and have had a few swap outs as needs changed . I have put safes in some different locations to say the least in homes , there are lots of inventive places to put them around a home