rifle racks (fancy)

Hi fellow "ghastly gun people"

I have been putting off for too long the hanging of my rifles on the wall.

I want to make a really discrete wall hook, something that is fixed to the wall behind the rifle to minimise its visual existence....

Before I go and waste a bunch of time (the kids keep playing with it and loosing it) with trial and error etc, I thought I would try my luck here first for ideas.
The internet has mostly a bunch of the same stuff that I have found so far.

Hope someone has a crafty solution for me, otherwise Ill happily tinker away one day....

Cheers, 40mm

A 'stout room' or a steel purpose-built cupboard is vastly better as it not only complies with the law but also keeps the guns out of sight (which is the very best security). Guns visible to nosey-parkers or window-peepers only makes you a target for theft.

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Originally Posted by gundoc

A 'stout room' or a steel purpose-built cupboard is vastly better as it not only complies with the law but also keeps the guns out of sight (which is the very best security). Guns visible to nosey-parkers or window-peepers only makes you a target for theft.

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I totally agree, but I want my hooks to be less or an eye sore when the rifles are on the wall.
I am over complicating it, but I want it to look nice.

Ah, the wall that the guns are on will not be accessible....

Just to clear up a bit of confusion, these hooks are to hold the rifle on the wall only, not to secure it against theft at all.
So I want the hooks to be nice and discrete, well as much as can be.

buy some (or get some made) clear plastic hooks. try fab plastics in chch to see what they can supply, good buggas to be sure

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Originally Posted by gonetropo

buy some (or get some made) clear plastic hooks. try fab plastics in chch to see what they can supply, good buggas to be sure

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I hear ya, but I really dont like the plastic ones.

Fussy aye.

I use the brass-plated screw-in hooks that hardware stores sell. The large size can be easily bent to match the stock/barrel contours and can be painted brown or black as appropriate so they don't stand out like dog's balls.

@40mm

Super magnets epoxied into a concave wooden mount screwed onto the wall (drill hole through wooden block and split to make two holders).

Will hold barrel invisibly. Here is a drawing I have worked on for you for three days:

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Originally Posted by Cordite

@40mm

Super magnets epoxied into a concave wooden mount screwed onto the wall (drill hole through wooden block and split to make two holders).

Will hold barrel invisibly. Here is a drawing I have worked on for you for three days:

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Nice one ralph, that is some fine crayola scribbling

You know what else sucks about my problem....
I am guaranteed to screw the hooks into the wall, then hang the guns, then stand back and realise they are in the wrong spot.

That's where your wife comes in handy. "left a bit, bit more, bit more, too much, back a bit, up a bit, no down a bit! Here I'll hold it & you have a look". We've all done it!

Surely you could whip up some hooks and shit like this system?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOnH...rgottenWeapons

Yeh, you could knock that out in a coupla hundred hours.
Some thinking has sure gone into that design

We use these guys for a lot of hooks, handles and shit at work. Might be worth a browse.

https://www.comac.co.nz/index.php

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Originally Posted by Tommy

Surely you could whip up some hooks and shit like this system?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOnH...rgottenWeapons

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yUp, that is cool. But I dont want to put that ply stuff on the wall.

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

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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

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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.

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@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.

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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.