C& Organization Ideas

Abulg1972 · May 28, 2015

This discussion probably applies across the board, but since I collect primarily curio and relic items, I thought I'd post it here. I store my rifles in my safes without their bolts, both to save space and to protect "my wood." Of course, this results in a pile of bolts that I have to sort through every time I want to take something to the range. Has anyone come up with a good way of organizing bolts so that they are easy to find and match?

yellowsled · May 28, 2015

I only take the bolts out of the ones I hang on my wall in my man room. I have to many rifles to take the bolts out for the ones in my safe.

AssMan · May 28, 2015

Marked ziplock bags with a couple drops of oil in them.

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Melnic · May 28, 2015

I have bolts in a smaller safe. I oil them and wrap in wax paper then rubber band them.
I sharpie the name of rifle and sometimes SN if Its something I have multiple of. So if I pick them up, I can see what they are w/o unwrapping them.
Guns are mostly in gun socks w/ a hole cut on top, I can pop the muzzle through and know what I'm looking at cause I know what the front sights look like. If its a mosin, I may have to pull it out. I could stand to put tags on those socks though.
I store them based on grouping (axis, allies, cold war,other)
Small safe is 2 shelves and I can group them in quadrants

reverendbeer · May 28, 2015

I usually just keep them in the safe with the bolt open...keeps the handles out of the way (usually...stupid loosey-goosey mosins) except for the problem children K31s and Steyrs...

Abulg1972 · May 30, 2015

reverendbeer said:
I usually just keep them in the safe with the bolt open...keeps the handles out of the way (usually...stupid loosey-goosey mosins) except for the problem children K31s and Steyrs...

This method doesn't work because I have too many guns ...

somd_mustangs · May 30, 2015

... or not enough safes

Threeband · May 30, 2015

Abulg1972 said:
... I have too many guns ...

I couldn't understand that last bit. Your post is garbled, doesn't make sense.

Abulg1972 · May 30, 2015

Threeband said:
I couldn't understand that last bit. Your post is garbled, doesn't make sense.

When I bought my last 24 gun safe less than a year ago and which is now overfilled, I told my wife that "this is it". Little did she know that I have an empty closet in the guest room that I intend to put a lock on.

Machodoc · May 30, 2015

Abulg1972 said:
When I bought my last 24 gun safe less than a year ago and which is now overfilled, I told my wife that "this is it". Little did she know that I have an empty closet in the guest room that I intend to put a lock on.

I have a spare bedroom with a lock on it, as well as very secure off-site storage that a friend and I share.

Abulg1972 · May 30, 2015

Luckily i still have room for a few more handguns.

toolness1 · Jun 1, 2015

My safe door has big zippered pouches, plus these elastic loops just for holding bolts. I keep all my Mauser bolts in the elastic loops, then all my Swiss bolts are in ziploc bags labeled, then in the big zippered pouch on the door.

You could also try to find an old filing cabinet somewhere, businesses get rid of them all the time. it is easy to put locks on each drawer, or install loops for a chain or pole to go through vertically and lock all the drawers at once. You could store them in the file cabinet however you want....

I also have my rifles in gun socks but I put tags on all of them so I know what each one is without having to expose it or take it out of the safe.

They get jealous when you take their clothes off just to look, then don't play with em

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