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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…



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What a wonderful project! I love the patterns in the wood. I also like that Winchester 1894 SRC in the bottom right!

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Looks GREAT and you are blessed to have a family that helps smile


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Great idea and what a daughter, you have to love a woman that knows how to use tools


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What a handsome room and display.

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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…



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I know you are proud of your daughter and the work she does.
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Winchester corner…



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Very nice Kirk, and your daughter is a creative blessing in Carharts~

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Plugging away on the last wall…



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Great little project with your kid, looks like a nice place to make your own.

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shrapnel, does your daughter do that kind of work daily or is it just a hobby for her?


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Originally Posted by Stanton Hillis
shrapnel, does your daughter do that kind of work daily or is it just a hobby for her?


Just a hobby. She is exceptionally artistic and creative. She is a mom and Dental Hygienist the rest of the time. While we were working on this project, she brought her own tools which included pneumatic nail gun and cut off saw which made the whole process quite easy for me.

I got the final wall finished this evening.. .




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Very, very nice.


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I've always wanted to use corrugated metal on the lower part of a room. Unfortunately, I don't have enough wall space for a TV dinner plate. Wonderful work on your gun collection.

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Shrapnel,
An absolutely well done gun room, one to be proud of! Very creative!
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I would have made the room hidden. To keep it from unwanted strangers. But you did a great job.

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Still fine tuning it. Added a bookshelf and other shelves for pictures…


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Love the addition of the saddle!
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Originally Posted by Karl Graebner
Love the addition of the saddle!
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That is my father's hat, chaps and saddle. The Hat is a Stetson made in the 1930's and made of Nutria. The chaps are Heiser chaps from Denver and the saddle is a Montana made Furstnow saddle with tapaderos and complete tooling on the saddle and saddle bags. He was a real cowboy...



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Wow, that came out very nice! Enjoy your time in there.

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Finished with a couch/hide a bed…




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Is that snow I see through your window? Looks chilly...

We will be shooting (at) pheasants tomorrow, with a forecast temperature of 42 of your Fahrenheit degrees. We love the Gulf Stream!

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Originally Posted by HistoricBore
Is that snow I see through your window? Looks chilly...

We will be shooting (at) pheasants tomorrow, with a forecast temperature of 42 of your Fahrenheit degrees. We love the Gulf Stream!

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Yes, snow and 20 degrees…


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“At” will probably be the operative word in my case, but still looking forward to it.

Shrapnel , you are so lucky to be living in a jurisdiction where the law does not require your guns to be kept in steel cabinets.

Although on the bright side, it does keep our wives from realising quite how many guns we own.

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What kind of a gun is that hanging next to the window? I figured it was a BB gun. smile

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Shrapnel,
I've been following your progress and you've done a wonderful job, enjoy the fruits of all that labor!
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Originally Posted by Parabola
“At” will probably be the operative word in my case, but still looking forward to it.

Shrapnel , you are so lucky to be living in a jurisdiction where the law does not require your guns to be kept in steel cabinets.

Although on the bright side, it does keep our wives from realising quite how many guns we own.

Yes Parabola, it does. However, my wife started to get suspicious and ask questions when I bought my fourth gun safe!!!


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Love the addition of the Daisy Model 25 to the display.

That was my first "rifle". Still have it, but now I have to "pump" it upside down to get the spring to cock and hold. They are classics.

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Beautiful room. Please comment on the window display of your collection from the outside.

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that is just superb !!


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Originally Posted by eightbore
Beautiful room. Please comment on the window display of your collection from the outside.

It’s Montana. There is snow 7 months of the year, no speed limit, and, then, as now, dead men tell no tales.

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Originally Posted by eightbore
Beautiful room. Please comment on the window display of your collection from the outside.


I had that BB gun since I was a kid. There is a picture of me holding it in front of my grandmother’s 1959 Oldsmobile…




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Whassin da'jar?

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The contents of the jar look like Elk "eye teeth"/ "tusks".
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Originally Posted by Der Ami
The contents of the jar look like Elk "eye teeth"/ "tusks".
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Yup, elk ivories…


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