How do you Store your longuns.

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I have always stored my guns with the muzzle up but I have been in the market for a gun safe lately and in a few catalouges I have seen pictures with the guns in the gun safe muzzle down? Is there a good reason for this?

[double_action]

Keeps oil from leaking down into the action.

[SigShooter]

Some say storing them that way will keep oil/grease from seeping down into the receiver, wood or FCG. I have always though if your oil/grease is seeping down, you are using too much.

However I have seen some of those safes that are designed for muzzle down storage and I do like them. They seem to hold more firearms than "traditional" safes of the same size. My biggest fear of storing rifles this way is the ease of damaging the crown, but extra caution in placing the firearm in the safe would remedy that.

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Keeps oil from leaking down into the action.

Can you clarify? When you maintain your gun you oil the action, not the barrel. seems to me storing it muzzle down would make the oil leak into the barrel.

[double_action]

I generally lightly coat the inside of the barrel with oil after cleaning to prevent rust, especially if I'm not planning to shoot the gun again for sometime.

But as Sigshooter pointed out, if oil is leaking down into the receiver, you're using too much.

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Sweet thanks guys.

[DVSmith]

I store mine alternating muzzle up and down so that I can fit them closer together and get more in my safe. The ones I store muzzle down are in bore store bags to help protect the crown as well as keep from dinging up the rifle or the ones adjacent to it.

[DedEye]

I store mine all muzzle up. After I clean the barrel I run a boresnake through them anyway so there shouldn't be too much oil left to seep into the rest of the rifle.