Welcome to the Badger's Den.   This is where we discuss Badger Ridge's solutions to problems, aka Our Products.   

We built up this website through many years of trying different things out.  Solving problems one at a time in my hobbies (hunting, shooting, HAM radio, flying, etc), I frequently had to develop something unique, or buy something obscure.   So we've made it our mission to simplify those things and bring them forward to the masses.

Some folks are amazed when they find out we have unique tools and products to solve their issues with their old muzzle loaders, or with the solvent trap they are trying to build.... or with that STACK-ON cabinet that needs more scope stand-offs, just won't hold that SBR or youth model right, and wastes so much space in the door.

If an internet search brought you here, but you don't immediately see what you were looking for, please use the menus on the top and sides to continue your search.   We update this blog often (so what the search engine sent you here for is probably only one click away).

We are a small, veteran owned, family run business.   You and your purchase mean a lot to us.    I've been writing this blog for many years now; trying to help folks and promote our products.    If you are interested in our solutions, or have an idea for us, please register (so we can send emails out when we release new products), and contact us (either by phone or writing a contact form).   We are always developing something, and looking for new ideas and products.

After being contacted by Justin H of Nebraska, we'd developed and launched a new product line:  

Scope Stand-offs & Barrel Rests for Sports Afield safes:

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After working with Justin via texts and emails for a few weeks, he said I could share his messages and texts with you to help you see how things went.   I of course, have edited these for clarity, to keep it pertinent, and protect his privacy.

My reply (via email... if you want our email address fill out a Contact form and we'll email you back... typically within 24-48 hours... but we don't post our email address openly in order to combat spam)
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Justin,

Thanks for your interest in our services and products!

You can send pictures here to this email address (or text them to my cell phone below).   I'll take a look at what you have if you get them to me.

Yours,

Tom
Main/Voice: 989 795 2526
Cell: (removed... again use the Contact form and I'll gladly provide it to those who need it)

To:  BadgerRidgeIndustries
From: Justin H  

Tom,

Here's some pics of what came with the safe:

Let me know if these pics will work.   Also, on top of needing more stand-offs, these Scope Stand off's seem a little to short for my rifles with bigger scopes on them.   Can you make some of them longer for those rifles?

Yours,

​Justin

From:  BadgerRidge
To:  Justin H

Justin,  
      Got the Pics.   I think I can help you.   Though what you sent looks like it is over-molded in soft rubber: anything I make will be all hard plastic.

If you want to move this forward: I will need you to send me a barrel rest (that is screwed to the wall of the safe) and one of the scope stand offs.  Once I get them in my hands I can probably mimic them, and make some stand-offs that are longer for your rifles scoped with bigger objective lenses.

Our address (for US Mail) is:

PO Box 223
Fostoria, MI 48435

Yours,

Tom
Voice: 989 795 2526

From: Justin
To:  Tom (Badger Ridge)

Tom,

     I appreciate your patience helping me out.  They are in the mail.

​Justin  

From:  Tom (Badger Ridge)
To:   Justin

Justin,

I appreciate the opportunity to make a new product that helps folks.   I'll let you know when they get here and when I have a solution to show you.

I'll summarize the rest for you...  once I got them in-hand, it was pretty apparent I could mimic them (sans the soft rubber over molding).   Also it was apparent quickly that the small tits that held the scope stand off to the barrel rest was a weak point.   Even weaker when made via 3D printing.   After consulting with Justin, we decided the way forward was to utilize screws to hold them to the barrel rest.  This requires the installer to chase the existing 3/16" holes on the factory barrel rest with a 3/16 drill (to put the hole all the way through).   The pictures below should help:

As the barrel rest is tapered, these Nut Holders are also tapered, and require installers to position them so that the nuts are parallel to the top of the scope stand-off (and the screw is therefore parallel to the wall of the safe).

On top of developing the 3 different size Scope Stand-offs, we also developed and offer for sale entire barrel rests that mimic the original's dimensions.   Our barrel rest is not over-molded with soft rubber, and the holes for the scope stand off are made fully through so that its compatible with both the original Sports Afield Stand-off along with the 3 lengths made by Badger Ridge.

We hope to be able to help/serve you with our products.   If you have an idea or need please call us or use the Contact form to reach out to us and initiate a conversation.    We'll quickly reply via email and give out my cell number if needed!  We like to help!

I'll let Justin have the last word (cause it does make my head swell):

Hey Tom this is Justin.

Wanted to personally take the time to thank you for all your help getting me standoffs for my Sports Afield safe.  From start to finish the whole interaction has been nothing short of awesome.   If only all businesses were as easy to deal with as yours is!  With all the commercial and retail chains you don’t get the service you would expect: you only get that from people just like you and your business. I’m so happy I took a chance and messaged you! (on a whim I had nothing to loose..)   I’m so happy I did: you went above and beyond! 

Thanks for the great service the patience and willingness to help a guy like me out.  I will be sure and send links to anyone I know share your business with everyone I know looking similar products they can’t find anywhere else.  You’re not limited to just what I was looking for!   I cannot thank you enough Tom!

Sincerely,

Justin 

Not sure what to do during this 'stay home' order period?    I know what I did.  I created a solution to my gun cabinet disorder and I'd like to offer it up to you!

Thank you for visiting the Badger's Den.  If an internet search brought you here looking for 209 solutions or hard to find parts for your inline muzzle loader, you are in the correct place.

Please understand that we continually post new articles here;  You may need to use the menus at the top or right of the page, or keep scrolling down to find what the search engine sent you here for!

Or just click here to be taken to our muzzle loader product page and start looking a the solutions we sell for older inline muzzle loaders. 

If you have a 3D printer, you can purchase a license to download and print our designs (for personal use only, and not to distribute and share.. see the EULA for the details).   Or you can shop our website for the various organizers we offer.  Once you purchase a organization item, we'll 3D print it in tough PETG and mail them to you with instructions and fasteners to install them.

​My efforts thus far are on the many STACK-ON cabinets I bought to secure my firearms.   Yes, I know there are much better, fireproof gun safes, but I find these to be cost effective solutions for securing firearms from children, and meeting legal requirements for secure stowage.  Now I can also say I have an organized easy to use system.  My dad has Homak cabinets, so I'll adapt what you see here to Homak as time and inspiration allow.  If you have another brand, or an idea for an organizer item, click that contact form or call me and we can discuss.

​But what exactly are you looking at?  What do we offer?   Well I'm glad you asked!

The most basic things are additional Barrel Spacers and Scope Standoffs. 

I found I needed them because many of my long guns had scopes, carry handles, or raised sights.

And STACK-ON just didn't include enough with their cabinets.  So I made my own scope standoffs (seen in orange in the adjacent pictures)


But these are just the tip of the Ice berg. 

I love the pistol holders!   

Plus the standard door trays work great for nearly all my fire arm related accessories:
- AR-15 magazines
- M-1 Enbloc clips
- M-14, FN-FAL, CETME/G3 magazines, AR-308/AR-10 Magazines

However I needed a deeper wider door tray to take my SDN-6 and D cell form-1 suppressor.   In the picture below you can see the deep tray (most of the others in the pictures are standard door trays) 

Please understand that the pictured B cell cans would have fit a standard door tray, but I wanted to keep them together.

The standard Door Tray is 30mm deep (that's about 1 3/16 inches), but the Deep Door tray is 40mm deep (just over  1 9/16).    At first I thought I'd put the bigger deeper trays everywhere.  Turns out not to be that smart of an idea:  trouble with the deep trays is that they project farther into the cabinet and can engage more guns inside.   Also tall items that aren't as wide as the tray (like magazines) can tip in the deep tray.   Because they don't engage the vertical wall (and none of my mags were wide enough.   Not sure, but maybe a Barrett 50 Cal mag would be a good fit for a deep tray?   The lesson learned is: to use standard trays for nearly everything and just the deep trays for very wide items that won't fit the standard tray.   For me that is my larger suppressors.   

​Though I did design rails to mount and hold things in place that want to tip (available for both the deep tray and the standard door tray).   Like these CETME/G3 mags I put in a deep tray (should have used a standard tray... wouldn't need the rail). 

​In my cabinets the Left Hand (LH) and Right Hand (RH) doors are mirror images of each other.  So one must ensure they choose the correct items for the door they wish to mount them too.  But if the customer does this, I think I got the rest of the details as simplified as possible.

Please consult the illustration showing a two door gun cabinet.  One door is Left Handed (LH) while the other is Right Handed (RH).  What is not obvious to persons unfamiliar with door nomenclature, is that the door on the right side of a person standing in front of the cabinet is the Left Handed (LH) door. 

One way to understand door swing nomenclature (on out swing doors) is to imagine standing outside of the room/box/cabinet that the doors enclose, then to place one hand on the hinge, and the other on the lock set. The door is named for the hand that rests on the lock set.  Another way is to imagine your spine pressed up against the jamb where the hinge is mounted. One arm would be able to reach into the cabinet, the other would have its shoulder on the hinge and be able to swing the door... the one that swings the door is what the door is named for.  Or... you can just look at the pictures, look at your cabinets and write down what hand doors you have.

So I've spent a lot of time and resources working on this, mostly for myself, but also I hope it will be well received and help others.  The more ambitious and well equipped person may chose to purchase the EULA and print their own organizers.  However feel free to chose to have us print them for you.  I've made many refinements along the way, and will continue to develop and improve this product with customer feed back.  We will print in PETG (one of the toughest FDM 3D printer filaments) and have multiple colors to choose from beyond what you've seen here in these pictures, though through it all, I've become fond of light grey.

If you are interested, please take a look at these in our store, contact us via the contact form, or give us a call...  especially if you have different brand of cabinet or an idea for a fire arm or cartridge I don't have.  We look forward to helping you!