Gun Room/Man Cave

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We remodeled our house earlier this year and I wanted to take a small bed room that we were able to vacate and turn it into a western/man cave and gun room. My daughter is a real genius in this kind of work and she told me how to prep and change the one wall for the rustic look of corrugated metal and barn wood.

I talked to a local ranch that had a barn collapse and got some barn wood and corrugated metal. Then Caroline painted one wall black where we were going to put up the barn wood and metal, so that any cracks or holes in the barn wood wouldn't show with a lighter color.

Cutting the metal at an arbitrary height, she then screwed it to the wall with the aid of a stud finder. After some trim was put on top, we divided the wall into three sections and then cut barn wood and started screwing it onto the wall. After dozens of trips from the garage, where we had the saw and materials, we finally got the wall covered and ready for the next step of displaying guns.

We started in the bare wall to the right to get the Sharps rifles that were shipped to Bozeman for the Montana buffalo hunts in the 1870's. It was tedious and crude, but it looks pretty good.

The room is not complete, but should be soon...

[Major 2]

WOW very impressive Great job ! 

[Abilene]

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[Mogorilla]

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2 of the Sharps have Walter Cooper stamps on the barrel and the third has A.D. McAusland stamped on the barrel. The picture is Bozeman Main Street in 1870 and the brick building under construction on  the right is the store that Cooper is building and moves into in 1872.

All 3 of those Sharps were shipped to Walter Cooper in 1877, and the best part is the 2 lower guns we're in the same shipment in August 1877...

[RoyceP]

Great job!

[Coffinmaker]

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[Tascosa Joe]

Awesome, gun room. I hope you have a good alarm system and a vault door. 

I missed you at Cody again this year.  I saw your display, but when I was there you were somewhere else.

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Winchester corner...

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Plugging away on the last wall...

[Hair Trigger Jim]

I love it!  And I wanna come!

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Got it finished other than book shelves and furniture...

[Major 2]

What is the story behind the 7th Cavalry grave marker ?

[Hair Trigger Jim]

Very nice other than the grave robbing artifact hehe.  What is the third firearm on the right?

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Very nice other than the grave robbing artifact hehe.  What is the third firearm on the right?

The grave marker is a movie prop from the movie "Horse Whisperer" and the third gun is a rare Burgess folding shotgun...