making a gun room from scratch any ides.
 

Ok i have a issue i now have to much hunting, shooting stuff, guns to just stick in my closet. :barmy: My kind of problem :s4:. TO if you ask mom and dad i was at to much two guns ago and 1000.00 worth of hunting stuff. :lmao:
SO i am thinking build me a hunting/shooting room in the basement. Me and dad discussed it about 6 months ago so i think he will be ok with it. I am thinking just frame me up a room with treated lumber and get it as sealed and insulated as much as i can. Were going to install our furnace down stairs this Jan so i will be able to get a heat duct to it without much trouble. Is there any ways of building said room that will make things for shooting and hunting easier. Like reloading and gun storage. I am thinking a steel exterior door with a deadbolt. As that will make it hard to get into to steal stuff. Also would i be better using plywood for the inside walls as it would make installing shelves later easier. Or maybe a 2x6 board 3 feet and 6 feet high running across the wall to us for mounting stuff that way. Any thing you can add that will make things easier or just are a good look in a shooting room.
My hopes are that i will be able to have a room with enough space for one or two safes, reloading setup, hunting stuff, a 2x10ft table and enough room to move around and do my cleaning reloading, so on with out being cramp. Do you think i could do that with a room that's roughly 15'x15'. Ohh got to have a TV and a computer for huntingnet and the outdoor channel

Ohh and a off topic my spelling should be better. As i finally switched to firefox when explorer gave up and crashed.

My suggestion, rather than the expense of a gun room, purchase a quality safe. A Canon or Browning brand would be all the security you will need to keep your firearms safe.

well part of the issue is not so much my guns. i am going to get a safe. Maybe this week for xmas or feb when i get my student loan. Wonder if a safe counts for a student loan purchase:s1::s1: I just have to much hunting, fishing, and shooting stuff. I have a cousin who like to look at all my stuff i found him in my room one day and my glock case had been moved. Now where talking a loaded 45 without a safety. I have black powder and pre loaded tube for my muzzy laying around because i have no place to keep my stuff. One issue is i want to start reloading soon. This spring if i get my centerfire rifle like i plan. SO then where talking alot of ammo and smokeless powder laying around. We have planned on finishing the basement so i figured if i payed out to frame the room in and the dry wall dad would let me build it to my specs and needs. He told me yesterday he had no proplem. Though he wants me to make sure it can be used for normal goverment approved activity. lol :patriot: My hope is it will be a room i can keep my gear reloading, shooting, hunting stuff in. Stuff that i would not put in a safe. As it is right now if i move everything in my closet at the end of season like i did last year i will have no place for my cloths or dresser. Even with my walk in closet

Handgun between under 700 dollars.
 

delete that was a new thread not sure how it got here. lol

You left a loaded pistol lying around unsecured? An unlocked Glock case doesn't count as secured. That's how accidental shootings happen.

Humidity could be trouble in a basement. 15X15' is huge, you should be able to do it in a smaller space (most of us do). If you don't want the expense of a safe you can build a lockable closet into your room. Don't know what your house setup is but I have a security system, by the time someone broke into a securely locked closet the badges would be knocking on the front door.

Spaniel's right, leaving a loaded firearm where UA persons can get to it is a big no-no.

Re: the room, build an ample-sized workbench. A 2x10' table is, for me, far too narrow. My bench is about 3' wide. I built a set of shelves, more like a shadow box, to go along the back side. I think it has 4 or 5 shelves. These are narrow, maybe 8" wide. A good place to put odds and ends...broadheads in one section, small tools on another, misc. cleaning doo dads...you get the idea. I covered the bench with a piece of scrap vinyl floor covering. The stuff is impervious to cleaning solvents (v. letting them soak into your wood bench, or laying papers down every time you clean).

I also found I often needed a place to lean a long gun. Corners are OK, but there are only so many of them. I build a floor rack that holds ten long guns, and mounted wheels on the bottom so it is easily moved.

Plan on a closet or something similar for hunting duds. Mine isn't enclosed, just a piece of galvanized pipe hung between a coupld of supports, mabye 8' long.

Cupboards and cabinets are good. Mine are what were in the house before remodeling. A drawer for this and a drawer for that...tools, eye protection, various gun parts, etc.

Have fun.

I picture a den.... a nice desk with built in shelves behind the desk....and on either side two built in gun cabinets/displays...

I woudn't worry much about all that hunting, fishing and shooting stuff. If you're using your student loan money for a gun safe rather than for tuition, you'll have to sell all of it once your note comes due. You won't have any stuff left to worry about storing!

Seriously, rather than racking up more debt, use your student loan for what it's intended.

That kind of struck me too....when I was in college (all 10 years of it for a BS, MS out of abbreviated PhD, and MBA) my main hunting gun through most of it was a Traditions Deerhunter ML I got at Kmart for $119. I made my crappy hunting clothes from high school last through most of it.

Suffer a little now, get the payback complete with the nice toys when the degree is paying for itself!

Oh, and why treated lumber? If your basement is bad enough to need treated lumber indoors, it's too humid for firearms or reloading gear. Typically using treated lumber indoors is a bad idea.

Just frame it out normally and buy a good safe. Nobody would steal your clothes. Maybe it would be a good idea to quit FN around with the student loan. WTF, if you are in college, wait until you get OUT then build one in YOUR house. Layoff mama's teat..

LOl the loan thing was a joke guys. I have some left over after tuition and such. Got to get me a new laptop to run auto cad as my acer piece of crap wont do the job. Normaly i must out of pocket the money for my books and such. Then i take that money back out of my loan and use the other for what i need for school. I do not think the basement will be to humid maybe alittle. By the time i get it done and we finish out the rest of the basement the only issue will be the concrete. Nothing alittle sealer wont solve. We do not have a water issue. We did once as the drain backed up when the sewer was being worked on that has been fixed so it will not happen again. I figure even if i need a dehumidifier it would solve any issue. Everything is dry down there. I am thinking more of a den as the area i am going to use is about 20 by 15 not 15x15. Maybe a nice little setup. The layout screws me. It is either put the room down stairs or my bedroom. Though i did think about that one.

As for the glock. It was in my closet 7 feet off the ground behind a locked bedroom door. The cousin got in my pass through in the closet under the stairs. It has been closed off and blocked and the bedroom door now has a exterior door lock on it. This is one of the big reasons i want a room for my stuff. He likes to just ''borrow stuff'' His step dad gave me my luminok and said he found it on the driveway. My bow had not been out side for 4 weeks since gun season had started. Rain ice snow mud and it lookd clean as it was new. Funny thing is the arrows where back in my case three weeks ago so he had it for a few weeks.

You may not need treated lumber for the wall but you should use it where the framing comes against the concrete . Bottom plates and first stud on vertical walls ,it cuts down on dry rot and termites . 20X15 sounds big but you will be surprised how quickly you can fill it up

Sounds to me that you just need some Rubbermaid containers of varying sizes to keep all of your stuff in.

Worry about the gun room after you buy or build your own house.

If I was 24 and still lived with my parents then I'd be worrying about getting my own place, not putting together a gun room in my parents basement.