Thread: rifle racks (fancy)

Use two timber slats fixed to the wall vertically, drill appropriately positioned holes correct for caliber of used brass of your choice into the slats, with one hole positioned at the trigger guard of the rifle and one under the fore end or barrel.
Using spent brass with the primer removed, place the neck of the brass into the drilled hole up the the shoulder and the fit a long screw through the primer hole and into the timber.

Spent brass become horizontal pegs to hang rifles on. Select some nice timber for the slats and clear coat it for visual effect.
Everything maintains a gun theme.

@40mm have you got a welder? If you do, some bits of wire and 30mm strap bent to shape, then painted, and some heatshrink over the bits that will touch the rifle perhaps?

All very good ideas chaps.

But I am keen on the hooks etc being as invisible as possible.

I want to see the rifles on the wall with minimal mounting hardware visible.

Velcro dots??


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Originally Posted by hotbarrels

Velcro dots??


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haha, not quite.

I reckon it might have to be some kind of small metal hook screwed to the wall and maybe a mean magnet at the barrel end

Do you have QD sling swivels on them at all?
Old school types, not the flush mounted ones?
That gives you something to float the fore-end on at least.
Dont reckon they would be much good for both.
Too wobbly

Originally Posted by csmiffy

Do you have QD sling swivels on them at all?
Old school types, not the flush mounted ones?
That gives you something to float the fore-end on at least.
Dont reckon they would be much good for both.
Too wobbly

Good idea.
But more along the lines of old stuff.
The fancy new guns have all been Martyred.

@40mm. The simplest I can think of is a 'L' hook mounted horizontally, the hook entering the muzzle. Black shrink wrap the tip, paint the shaft of the 'L' hook same as your wall.

And a similar hook mounted through the trigger guard in such a way it both holds the gun up and also keeps it going backwards off the front 'L' hook. Again, be creative blending them in with those little tins of Humbrol left over from doing AirFix planes, tanks and Bofors when you were a boy.

Originally Posted by Cordite

@40mm. The simplest I can think of is a 'L' hook mounted horizontally, the hook entering the muzzle. Black shrink wrap the tip, paint the shaft of the 'L' hook same as your wall.

And a similar hook mounted through the trigger guard in such a way it both holds the gun up and also keeps it going backwards off the front 'L' hook. Again, be creative blending them in with those little tins of Humbrol left over from doing AirFix planes, tanks and Bofors when you were a boy.

Not a bad idea.

I am getting some good ideas thanks chaps, This is the first online brain storm I have been involved in.

Could always have a cantilevered system.
A standard hook just forward of the trigger guard (or wherever the center of gravity is)
Then you could just have a small pin above the barrel...

Could probably even find a plastic rod a similar colour to your walls. Or a plastic sleeve for a metal pin.