How do you store you bolt action ?

[greekguy76]

I store my bolts in a safe deposit box in another city. You can't be too careful. Think of the children.

Wendy would be soo proud!

 

[jethunter]

Wendy would be soo proud!

You goof, wendy doesn't give a #### about safety or accidents. If she did she wouldn't need to use lies and distorted statistics to justify herself.

 

[mike shickele]

I would never store my rifles without the bolts in; if the bolt is ever lost, the gun would be useless.
Mike

 

[mcrae555]

In a safe as well for me.

 

[Grinch]

Bolt open, bolt flag in place, no trigger lock, and all in the safe

 

[Carbine]

Bolt in, action open, in vault. I'll take one of my wife's socks and stretch it over the open bolt to prevent marking the rifle next. I'll inherit the other sock once she stops looking for the lost one.

Or, in the tight vault, bolt out and locked separately in a drawer in an old roll cab. I label the bolt drawer with the rifles S/N written backwards.

Plus, I always knock out that useless shelf in my Stack On syle safes. Two or three hard taps with a 10 lb deadblow on each side from below and it's out. Makes getting the long ones in and out completely easy.

I hate 'safe kisses'........complete bogusness.....and unnecessary.

 

[Rob 22]

Mine are also in the vault. no cables or trigger locks bolts in

 

[stubblejumper]

Locked up in gun vault,no trigger locks.Bolt in rifle,decocked.

 

[Onagoth]

in a safe, decocked.

 

[dale]

Locked in the safe

 

[Calum]

I remember a few years ago seeing a fine collection of used rifles in a gunstore...the entire rack had rifles that had lost bolts.



So I say keep the bolts in the rifle, and the rifle in a safe, or trigger locked somewhere safe.

 

[Gibbs505]

In safe, bolt in.

 

[peter2772000]

If I'm home, I like to store one next to the front door. Leaned up, loaded, with open bolt. If I'm not home, I'll put it back in the vault. Coyotes, cougars, etc. seldom wait for me to remove trigger locks or dig out bolts. Regards, Bill.

I was sure someone was gonna point out that this is blatantly illegal, and yet I was embarrassingly wrong.

Good for you, Leeper. God help you if you ever get busted for such standard operating procedures, but good for you.

I still cannot for the life of me comprehend how we allow the government to dictate to us what we do in our own home.

in a safe, decocked.

Ditto!

 

[rangebob]

Bolt open, bolt flag in place, no trigger lock, and all in the safe

I considered doing that, but I keep mine in a 'bore store' sock and I was worried about fluff getting in. So I store mine bolt closed, decocked, in a safe. It's also trigger locked -- not because there's any point, more because I have to store the trigger lock somewhere, and it's easy to find there.

 

[Griffoneur]

Mine are not trigger locked, completely assembled and stored in the man-cave.

 

[pricedo]

Bolts out & stored in a different safe.

Machine guns (12-2) have to be stored that way so I do it with my bolt action non restricted firearms as well.

Not many 4 legged varmints running around the city block where I live.

 

[dusty61]

locked gun room.

 

[1duckslayer]

bolt in, in safe = none of the above

 

[roadkill7205]

Gun cabinet, bolt open, trigger lock on.

In my neighbourhood, keeping a loaded piece next to the front door'd be a terrible idea: If I elected to answer the door with a blazing muzzle, I'd hit the church across the street.

 

[insurrecto]

i keep a 10.75x68 mauser, bolt in, loaded mag, under my pillow!!!

its not illegal for me to have one gun unlocked and loaded since i have animals to protect!

and just about any sort of locked room or closet will do fer the rest.