I'm bad and leave them in their cases, which is apparently bad. But it's so convenient and thankfully nothing has rusted yet. But I want to protect these investments. What's the best way to store them? Only problem is the shelves are close together so I have them all lying down and don't have room to stand them up.
How do you store your handguns in your safe?
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handofzeus
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Trout Creekish Ontario.
I use oil soaked foam (in cases) for most and oil soaked rags wrapped around the metal on the uncased ones. I also use at LEAST two damp trap moisure collectors at all times and drain the water from them every two weeks. Fire safes draw moisture in. (in general).
- Location
- East of Home, West of the Rest
Pistol racks. Oiled normally as one would use them. Done this with one gun for 11 years and no signs of rust or corrosion. Sometimes it has gone quite some time between cleanings too with repeated range trips.
In their cases if they have cases. In holster if they have holster and no box.
If I come from the range, I keep them under open air at home for some time to ensure they dry out (see note below for winter) and then put them to storage.
The bottom of my safe has a pile of silica packets, e.g. wife buys new shoes, package has silica packets, packets go info safe.
So far, no rust or hint of it.
PS.
Soaked foam or cloth in oil makes no sense. It does nothing. Take the wet gun, wrap it in oil soaked anything and it will rust.
You have to control humidity. Since it's a winter time, you have to remember that your gun will be cold and if you place it in warm environment, the water in the air will end up on your gun. You may want to keep your gun in the case for a while so it would warm up slowly, then you have to dry it up just in case (including its box and foam in the box). After it dried up, you can clean and oil it and then put it for storage.
If I come from the range, I keep them under open air at home for some time to ensure they dry out (see note below for winter) and then put them to storage.
The bottom of my safe has a pile of silica packets, e.g. wife buys new shoes, package has silica packets, packets go info safe.
So far, no rust or hint of it.
PS.
Soaked foam or cloth in oil makes no sense. It does nothing. Take the wet gun, wrap it in oil soaked anything and it will rust.
You have to control humidity. Since it's a winter time, you have to remember that your gun will be cold and if you place it in warm environment, the water in the air will end up on your gun. You may want to keep your gun in the case for a while so it would warm up slowly, then you have to dry it up just in case (including its box and foam in the box). After it dried up, you can clean and oil it and then put it for storage.
first i put a trigger lock on it, then i put it in the hard case it came in with a super heavy duty lock. next i put it into a place i cant easily access it and lock it a third time. next a bad guy or government breaks into my house, next i cant defend myself and i die. this is what they strongly recommend. #### YOU
omfg lmao
SelectShootingSupplies
Regular
- Location
- South Western Ontario
This is from a thread in our forum, more photos in the thread. http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/foru...age-solutions-(More-Photos-Added-at-post-107)
I store my own the same way, in safe, on handgun Hangers, no trigger locks.
In the picture above there re 10 handgun hung on a 16" shelf.
I store my own the same way, in safe, on handgun Hangers, no trigger locks.
In the picture above there re 10 handgun hung on a 16" shelf.
Stored in a cabinet, uncovered, lightly oiled, and re-cleaned six monthly will ensure quality finish and fine bore. Mine have been fine for the last 40 years. I use a Winchester dehumidifier in my cabinet which is recharged by plugging in for a short while to dry the gel pellets. That's a fair 50 bucks insurance for your investment . I would ABSOLUTELY NOT holster any firearm for storage. Cases also do not allow for dry air around the guns.
