As my ruck collection grew, I wanted to fund a way to store my bags that also showed them off, because, hey, GORUCK makes beautiful rucks. About a year ago I purchased some hooks from Home Depot and and hung my bags by my entry as shown here.

While I was happy with the look (at the time), I didn't like the way the handles began to stretch out. I reached out to the good people on the Carryology Classifieds group on Facebook for some suggestions.

Through their thoughts and ideas, I set out to build a better display wall.

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Materials:

After measuring the wall, I cut the pegboard and hung the Furring Strips. The most important thing here is to think through where you will want to place your hooks to hang your bags. If a furring strip is where want to place a clip, you'll be out of luck. So, as best you can, strategically hang your furring strips.

At this point, I would recommend that you paint your furring strips and your pegboard (if you're planning to paint them). Same goes for the wall behind the board. I didn't do this and regretted it later.

If you're painting the pegboard, you will want to also paint the strips the same color or else it they will likely show through.

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This will cause you to chose between having to take down the pegboard and paint them or chose the dumber option of doing it with a Qtip.

I chose to paint the wall around my pegboard because I knew my bags would go wider than the board. If my rucks were to stay inside the board, then I might have kept the wall a contrasting or accent color. In the end, I just blacked it all out.

After this, I began to install my hooks where I wanted them. I also cut down the dowels so that they fit each ruck perfectly. The dowels were places under the straps, which I cinched down nice and tight.

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From here, I just hung them on the hooks and, boom! Ruck Display Wall complete!

Random Notes/Thoughts

  • I would NOT hang rucks on this wall with weight in them. My "guess" is that probably 10# is the most I'd want to hang.
  • These bags are not my daily carries and spend most of their time on display. I might grab one of these per week to put in use.
  • I believe the display would look great with as few as 2-3 rucks because you could space them out in cool ways and add other decorative flair to the wall.
  • I think it would be neat to have light strips behind the wall to shine thought all the holes. I didn't do it because I don't have an outlet near by and I just wanted to finish the project.

Rucks On The Wall (Top to bottom, Left to Right)

If you have any questions, drop them in the comments below.