highflyer09
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I recently purchased a 500 for HD and have read through many threads on here but one that I could not find was about storing your HD weapon. I did a quick search and didn't come up with anything.
With an understanding of the importance of gun safety I think where you store your guns is one of the most important steps. However HD weapons are different in the fact that you want them readily available and loaded, not locked in a typical gun safe but not so accessible that a thief, child, or other person in your home that it is easily found. Finding a spot in a home that meets those criteria seems to be quite a challenge for me.
A few details I'll share about my current situation. I rent my home at the moment (so built in secret compartments are not an option), I do not have children however we do have children in our home to visit on occasion, and we do not currently employ any type of service people that come into our home (cleaners, pool cleaners, etc.). I have read some home defense articles and scenarios and have decided to keep the shotgun loaded without a round in the chamber, one rack of the SG and I'm ready to go and in addition to that I have the sound of the racking as one more possible deterrent if I ever take a defensive position.
Here are my possible storage locations in our master bedroom:
Leaning up in the back corner of my closet (not my ideal location)
Under the bed
Under our dresser ( we have hard wood floors and roughly 8 inches of space between the floor and dresser. I was considering building some sort of cradle to hold it up against the bottom of the drawers and off the floor)
Behind our bed headboard (Our bed has a headboard which has about 3-4 inches of space between it and the wall. It stands about 5 feet tall. I was thinking about installing some sort of bracket to hold the SG on the back side of the headboard. There would be enough room to retrieve it and high enough off the floor out of small children's reach)
I would like to hear some of your storage locations for your HD weapons as well as any guidance or input on my ideas.
Thanks!
With an understanding of the importance of gun safety I think where you store your guns is one of the most important steps. However HD weapons are different in the fact that you want them readily available and loaded, not locked in a typical gun safe but not so accessible that a thief, child, or other person in your home that it is easily found. Finding a spot in a home that meets those criteria seems to be quite a challenge for me.
A few details I'll share about my current situation. I rent my home at the moment (so built in secret compartments are not an option), I do not have children however we do have children in our home to visit on occasion, and we do not currently employ any type of service people that come into our home (cleaners, pool cleaners, etc.). I have read some home defense articles and scenarios and have decided to keep the shotgun loaded without a round in the chamber, one rack of the SG and I'm ready to go and in addition to that I have the sound of the racking as one more possible deterrent if I ever take a defensive position.
Here are my possible storage locations in our master bedroom:
Leaning up in the back corner of my closet (not my ideal location)
Under the bed
Under our dresser ( we have hard wood floors and roughly 8 inches of space between the floor and dresser. I was considering building some sort of cradle to hold it up against the bottom of the drawers and off the floor)
Behind our bed headboard (Our bed has a headboard which has about 3-4 inches of space between it and the wall. It stands about 5 feet tall. I was thinking about installing some sort of bracket to hold the SG on the back side of the headboard. There would be enough room to retrieve it and high enough off the floor out of small children's reach)
I would like to hear some of your storage locations for your HD weapons as well as any guidance or input on my ideas.
Thanks!