What do you remove when storing your rifle?

[tonyshooter]

The bolt, magazine and sound moderator are removed when storing the rifle, with these 3 components and ammunition stored separately from the rifle.

 

[VSS]

Nobody's mentioned removing their boots.
Given the number of gun cabinets located upstairs, in bedrooms etc, I should say that removing one's boots before placing rifles in storage is essential to maintaining domestic harmony.

 

[chriswjx]

Nobody's mentioned removing their boots.
Given the number of gun cabinets located upstairs, in bedrooms etc, I should say that removing one's boots before placing rifles in storage is essential to maintaining domestic harmony.

Or grew up in Asia (and some places in Europe it seems?) where it is verboten to wear any form of shoes that have been outside around the house

 

[timbrayford]

Or grew up in Asia (and some places in Europe it seems?) where it is verboten to wear any form of shoes that have been outside around the house

Too much dog **** on the pavements?

 

[imnotrucknut]

All the studies I've read or been informed of showed no degradation of the spring through being stored while compressed. More issues were caused by repeated use of the spring which can cause metal fatigue.

For a deerstalker it's probably not an issue either way due to the frequency of emptying and loading a magazine.

Mainly applies to shotguns re snap caps.
Snap caps for rifles are a waste of money IMHO.
Regards Gary

 

[Dave_45]

Mod when finished shooting
Mag and ammo and bolt removed from rifle and kept on person
Rifle bolted to car anchor

Get home

Store it all separate

 

[enfieldspares]

Home Office guidance is to store separately any easily removable parts. How far do most people take this? Obviously one of these is 100% and one will be close to 0%. Removing the bolt on a semi automatic action is more involved than a bolt action, and some guns have integral magazines… I would consider these as ‘not removed’ rather than none applicable.

Yes. 'Tis odd indeed. I don't store the forends of my shotguns away from the rest of the gun they belong to. But in truth I am old and worry if I drop dead and fear the shotguns are likely to not be then put back all together and so when sold will be worthless even though they were "entire". Simply because of the stored away forends haven't been put back on to their guns. Old English guns without forends are worthless. When you get old you tend to think that way.

How do I know this? When my late father died in 1988 I got one gun of his two guns and my brother the other. Subsequently my brother in 1998 surrendered his on SGC and FAC some years later. I took possession of the guns he had on my RFD. He decided he would not give the the 12 bore he had that had been my late fathers but that it was to be sold. I suspect that was his wife's influence.

So I put in auction with its case but before I did must have been distracted and forgot to leave the forend in the case. There it was in my jacket pocket when I got home. Too far to go back and remedy the situation, the forend remained with me, on my RFD register and I instructed the auctioneers to sell it as it was. I then bid for it and got it for not a lot. As said old English guns without forends are near worthless, took it home, reunited it with its forend. I have no sleepless nights about that whatsoever.



As I've only two rifles I'll risk that chance.

 

[ContinShots]

Bolt (or cocking handle for the 15-22), magazines and any ammo. The bipod stays on in most cases.

Is there really any point in removing the cocking handle from an AR platform rifle? They're not controlled parts and they're a doddle to source (even some airsoft ones can be made to work in them). Any thief could probably order one on their phone from the van on their way home and it'll be delivered to their door the next morning!

 

[ContinShots]

Yes. 'Tis odd indeed. I don't store the forends of my shotguns away from the rest of the gun they belong to. But in truth I am old and worry if I drop dead and fear the shotguns are likely to not be then put back all together and so when sold will be worthless even though they were "entire". Simply because of the stored away forends haven't been put back on to their guns. Old English guns without forends are worthless. When you get old you tend to think that way.

How do I know this? When my late father died in 1988 I got one gun of his two guns and my brother the other. Subsequently my brother in 1998 surrendered his on SGC and FAC some years later. I took possession of the guns he had on my RFD. He decided he would not give the the 12 bore he had that had been my late fathers but that it was to be sold. I suspect that was his wife's influence.

So I put in auction with its case but before I did must have been distracted and forgot to leave the forend in the case. There it was in my jacket pocket when I got home. Too far to go back and remedy the situation, the forend remained with me, on my RFD register and I instructed the auctioneers to sell it as it was. I then bid for it and got it for not a lot. As said old English guns without forends are near worthless, took it home, reunited it with its forend. I have no sleepless nights about that whatsoever.

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As I've only two rifles I'll risk that chance.

What a fortuitous occurrence!

 

[harrygrey382]

Yes. 'Tis odd indeed. I don't store the forends of my shotguns away from the rest of the gun they belong to. But in truth I am old and worry if I drop dead and fear the shotguns are likely to not be then put back all together and so when sold will be worthless even though they were "entire". Simply because of the stored away forends haven't been put back on to their guns. Old English guns without forends are worthless. When you get old you tend to think that way.

How do I know this? When my late father died in 1988 I got one gun of his two guns and my brother the other. Subsequently my brother in 1998 surrendered his on SGC and FAC some years later. I took possession of the guns he had on my RFD. He decided he would not give the the 12 bore he had that had been my late fathers but that it was to be sold. I suspect that was his wife's influence.

So I put in auction with its case but before I did must have been distracted and forgot to leave the forend in the case. There it was in my jacket pocket when I got home. Too far to go back and remedy the situation, the forend remained with me, on my RFD register and I instructed the auctioneers to sell it as it was. I then bid for it and got it for not a lot. As said old English guns without forends are near worthless, took it home, reunited it with its forend. I have no sleepless nights about that whatsoever.


As I've only two rifles I'll risk that chance.

Gold.

Re removing bolts - I’d never do this. I’ve got too many with interchangeable bolts, and the idea of removing one in a vehicle makes me cringe due to potential loss. Also I’m quite often getting a rifle out in a hurry and rummaging frantically around for the right bolt would be infuriating

 

[Pedro]

Thankfully my rifles are poles apart and the bolts don't look like each other, so I remove them. It also helps space-wise in a fairly tight cabinet. The bolts go into another safe. As for shotguns, really I remove nothing. Although if I am out and about and for some reason need to leave my shotgun in a locked car, the fore end goes with me. I suspect that is, generally speaking what the great majority of people do.

Does this mean that occasionally I have turned up to shoot somewhere without a bolt for my rifle? I'm gonna take the 5th on that......