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Title: Storage ideas ?
Post by: foxfire on November 25, 2009, 07:07:00 PM
I would like to see what others are doing with
tackle storage . Ideas and pics ? Ideas for the
home and feild . Space is always a premium .
Title: Re: Storage ideas ?
Post by: Killdeer on November 26, 2009, 06:37:00 AM
Storage? No problem.
I just stack everything in the living room.
And the kitchen.
And the spare bedroom.
Beside the front door. On the walls.
In the hall and in front of my closet.

Killdeer~ about to be evicted   :o
Title: Re: Storage ideas ?
Post by: saumensch on November 26, 2009, 06:44:00 AM
some buckets for arrows,
old cupboard for small items
bowrack not needed, just got one   "[dntthnk]"  

thats for the plan, but in fact though i got little its spread just like at killdeers...
Title: Re: Storage ideas ?
Post by: L. E. Carroll on November 27, 2009, 12:59:00 AM
:knothead:    :knothead:    :wavey:
Title: Re: Storage ideas ?
Post by: foxfire on November 27, 2009, 05:46:00 AM
LOL ....This is exactly the problem Killdeer
Title: Re: Storage ideas ?
Post by: BOHO on November 27, 2009, 10:08:00 AM
I keep all my smaller stuff like points, heads, etc in a big tackle box. I put nails up to hang bows in a room and as far as arrows most of them are in big pvc pipe on the floor. I cut some 3" pvc about 24" and I think theres 5 or 6 of them. I duct taped them together and it will sit on the floor and I keep all my arrows in that.
Title: Re: Storage ideas ?
Post by: Buckeye Trad Hunter on November 27, 2009, 10:35:00 AM
I use a big tackle box for my smaller stuff as well.  It has a bigger storage compartment on the top where I keep my string material, grain scale, and things that are still relatively small but too big to fit in the smaller compsrments.
Title: Re: Storage ideas ?
Post by: trad_bowhunter1965 on November 27, 2009, 11:34:00 AM
I try to recycle plastic boxes and use them for storage keep stuff dry.
Title: Re: Storage ideas ?
Post by: calgarychef on November 27, 2009, 11:41:00 AM
You can get those plastic bun trays that the bakeries use.  Just lay the stuff on them and stack them up.  I use them for hunting equip.  Survival stuff on one, game calls on the other, cooking stuff etc.  They work ok for such an easy thing.  I think I might build some cupboards this winter with some shallow but wide drawers.

The chef
Title: Re: Storage ideas ?
Post by: mater on November 27, 2009, 03:11:00 PM
Ive got a gift wrapping paper container that is perfect for arrows. Ive got about four dozen in it and have more room in there.  Mark
Title: Re: Storage ideas ?
Post by: Altiman94 on November 27, 2009, 04:52:00 PM
I have a plano achery box for the small stuff.  I also use those big plastic tubs with a lid from walmart.

My bows hang from a rack that was made by my grandfather some years back.

Clothes and boots have their own closet.  Treestands, blinds, turkey decoys, and targets are just all over.

Of course my wife thinks I have too much stuff.
Title: Re: Storage ideas ?
Post by: lpcjon2 on November 27, 2009, 05:25:00 PM
Small stuff in a tackle box The bows are on the coat hooks(living room) and the arrows are in the boxes they came in on the top of the fridge and the clothes are in trash bags with leaves at the basement door.
Title: Re: Storage ideas ?
Post by: Sam McMichael on November 27, 2009, 07:19:00 PM
Boy am I glad to hear that so many others are as unorganized as I am. I have a gun rack with 12 bows on it (only four gun slots, so they are really stacked up). I have 4 others hanging from a couple of hat racks, along with 16 hats and caps. For arrows, I have a wire rack that allows me to stand arrows up in the square holes for easy access, but it only holds about six dozen arrows. I don't know how many odd arrows are stuck in cardboard tubes and shipping boxes. Then I have 8 quivers, and several of them have a dozen or so arrows. I have two taklce boxes and a top drawer in the dresser for little things. My closet is running over with hunting clothes, boots, ghillie suits and such. That is in addition to a cedar armoire for wool clothes. Don't forget under the bed, behind the doors, and all the required camping gear in the outside stoage house. My wife thinks I have far too much gear, but since she is not a bow hunter, she simply doesn't realize that we actually need a bigger house to keep all the essential bowhunting stuff. I won't even go into the guns and ammo situation, for, after all, this is a bowhunting site.
Title: Re: Storage ideas ?
Post by: Tsalagi on November 27, 2009, 09:42:00 PM
Have arrows in quivers around the house. When they're not being used, they're decor. My wife and I both like the look. We've got spears on the walls in the house, too.