the war musem inaustralia istops in my book..the vietnam war display is so real it will scare you...charlie

Well I'm back in a state of dissrepair or terminal clutter so to speak. i can't load a shell if my life depended on it and it took 20 min of moving stuff around just to get to the guns I listed for sale recently. All of this goes to the greater good however as after 8 years my basement (enlarged Man Cave) will be finished off and suitable for living.

Can't wait to see the finished product

Those pictures look like our whole house, even though we have two boys as an excuse

The really big mounts are wrapped in plastic and basically in the way of the contractor who has to move them to get his work done. I couldn't put it off any longer.

good for you...charlie

who/what make is that red head decoy?

I like the wart hog and that is a good looking buff.

What gauge Parker do you use on warthogs?

The pigs are flushed from heavy cover by a pair of Jack Russell terriers and shot on the run using a Parker GHE 16ga with Heavy Shot....:rotf::rotf:

Actually I shot the Warthog using a custom built 416 Taylor and a 400gr Swift A Frame.

Rich, I think it's about time you went shopping for some proper vintage rifles.

I'm late to the game on this thread, it's the first time I've opened it up for some reason. Great pictures here guys, really some impressive spaces. Essentially (being an old bachelor) my entire home is a gun room. I have been slowing turning the spare bedroom into my "Scout Room" to house my collection of that sort of memorabilia. This is a terrible picture taken with my ancient flip phone but you'll get the idea of where I'm heading.


Destry

I have enough financial mischief with vintage shotguns and my rifle fetish gets me into enough trouble as it is:whistle:

This is how it looked when I started a couple months ago so I've come a long way. Hah!

All these gun room pictures and I didn't see a single "inside Harley".

The new gun room is all done, not a real big space, but cozy enough
(15'x13'6") quite empty right now though, so a picture of my newly made gun cabinet will have to suffice for now (still lacking the felt backing...I'll get around to it sooner than later hopefully:rolleyes:). Currently holding a few Parkers, Ithaca's, Lefever's, Beretta and Browning doubles, amongst other makes/models/action styles. Sorry if the picture is a bit dark, the lighting in the room is a little dull at the moment, and didn't want to use a flash.
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j1...ps75py6tsy.jpg

Wow - what a nice gun cabinet! Congratulations on a job well done!

I see a Ruger No. 1 in there... a 'Must' for any well-stocked gun cabinet.

Thank you kindly, but I can't take credit for the carpentry work itself, it was my design, measurments, etc... But a friend/co-worker requested the chance to build it for me, so I took him up on the offer, and don't regret it! He would have had the felt backer in place during construction, but he became tied for time with other responsibilities, so I told him that I would look after it down the road.

And yes, that's a Ruger No. 1 Tropical Stainless in 375 H&H. The couple semi's you might see ( one or two are hidden by the frame) are Browning Auto 5's, a mint 20 gauge and a light twelve, along with a newer 20 gauge Browning Silver, and a couple run of the mill rifles / .22's.

Great looking caves!

Some fine rooms, but also the glimpse of some fine guitars, I am ashamed that I do not play more, I have my dads Gibson, Called Nashville to inquire about it, seems it was made between 1918-1922, I looked inside the box seems as though there is some writing do not know what it says need to get a light and a glass to see, he played on the radio in the 30's with a group called the Carolina Boys I think, He is long gone and taught me to play, what little I know is from him, I also have a Les Paul in the closet that has not been out of its case in several years, the Amp probably has a mouse home in it, just kidding, I think there is a Yamaha hiding in the closet too! Box guitars for for country, and electric for a little rock, just me Chet Atkins was my favorite, in country Clapton for rock, Gary

I have been having a hard time keeping up on my reading, and have stopped watching most television because I started back playing the guitar. I am trying to learn to play classical style guitar and am really enjoying it. I always was a finger picker but this is really a workout. Now when I go back to playing James Taylor, Gordon Lightfoot, etc, it seems so much easier. A good friend asked me if I wanted a guitar, and I said sure. I had been helping him move with my truck. Turns out, it was a beautiful Ibanez dreadnot from the early 1970's that was such a direct knock-off of the Gibson that they were sued over it. Many were destroyed by cutting off their necks when they were seized coming into the country--They are called "lawsuit guitars" on the internet. A former Chet Atkins award winning guitar player who lives here loves it ( Martin makes a special run of guitars named after him-Roger Hoard).
It plays much easier than my old 1972 Yamaha FG 160. So, I am enjoying it but sure wished I hadn't stopped playing 20 years ago

I'm with you Gary on Clapton very possibly being the most well-versed guitar player today but Stevie Ray ties him in blues and rock in my opinion.

Chet Atkins was a fabulous country player but there were so many excellent country players I just can't choose...

Back to gun rooms... I too like looking around in those pictures of folks' gun rooms to see what else is lurking in the shadows or out in full display.

Watch out for this young man in a few years.

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He's got to get away from that "dut-dut-daaa" that he puts in there all through his 'exercise' of cute stuff. I'd like to hear him play something real or compose his own work.
Not bad though for a beginner... He'll get there someday.

One of the best guitar players...Jimi Hendrix:bowdown:

Oh YES!

My vote goes to Stevie Ray Vaughn

The lord works in mysterious ways. I was all set for a long planned trip to Pulaski for the steelhead run. Best fishing buddy gets sick and I'm totally bummed about making the trip alone. Low and behold water level us 3800 CFS and about (not totally) unfishable. End result is I didn't go, cut my losses, got my reloading done and the man cave is impeccable.

Sonny Landreth and Jimmy Burton.

I went to Pulaski during high water one time three or four decades ago. I hooked a big Chinook and he took off out in the current and spooled me. What a wasted trip that was.

I got spooled some years ago on the Salmon river up there. It was the most exciting fish I never caught.

Not in the same company with Hendrix, Clapton or Vaughn but Dwayne Allman and Dickie Betts had some great performances (Jessica to name one).

As Dean said back to gun rooms. I'm looking for ideas. I especially like the gun cabinet that William has but would be afraid to leave meaningful guns out of the safes. Maybe something to display vintage cases and easily replaceable guns and rifles? Bob

We have alway s done fairly well there (Salmon River) and did catch fish at 3000 CFS in the past (recommend a life jacket) but as this year taught us sometimes you can fish and sometimes not. I've hit it in horrendous cold and windy weather, but one or two big fish and a picture or two makes it worth it. There will be other days. It truly is a world class fishery right now but I get the sense that it can still be a fragil system. There was a fish kill of unknown origin this year so I tend to try and get there while it lasts.
The most memorable fish I ever hooked there(and kissed goodbye) jumped over a big downed tree in the river, smashed through the dead branches on the other side right after I said "I'd better keep him away from that tree" and left a burned image in my mind forever.

Have they dropped the PCB ban on eating those fish?

Dean, I don't know. It came up in a discussion today with a description of the signs on the river that warned of such. I have pretty much fished the fly fishing catch and release are but in passing through the lower River and the upper parts of the whole River I have not seen a warning sign but that's not to say it still is not an issue.

away from the gun room yet- but there is a growing summer fishery on the Salmon River

summer steelhead (Skamania strain) and a small but hopefully growing return on the Atlantic Salmon stocking efforts -

there is a spey gathering there in June
http://speynation.com/