Gun Safes
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I ordered mine online with free shipping. I needed a specific size and it was cheaper than what Cabelas had to offer. Academy didn't have one the right size. Get the biggest safe you can. You will be surprised how much stuff besides guns that you want to put in there. Also, get the electronic keypad. It will save you some hairpulling, and allow easier access under duress.
Yeah, what you said !
Costco has or had Winchester safes for about $500.00 , if I remember right.
Let me preface my comments by saying that the biggest issue with safes is cost, and I'm sorely aware of that. I've currently got a Ft. Knox 72 x 41 that I've outgrown, and am in the process of buying another this year. We're talking around $6k here - so it's NOT a small purchase. Thing is, if my collection continues to grow, it'll likely house over 50k worth of firearms, so part of the equation for me is relative - cost vs. what's being protected. Because of that, the lighter safes simply aren't (IMO) subject to consideration.
I WILL note, however, that my first safe was about $1500 - about the same size, but a Browning and not nearly as sturdy. Back then, it was as far as I could afford to stretch, though.
I WILL note, however, that my first safe was about $1500 - about the same size, but a Browning and not nearly as sturdy. Back then, it was as far as I could afford to stretch, though.
I just ordered an Amsec safe, should arrive next week. They have about a three week lead time right now. Very strongly considered a Ft. Knox just wasn't ready to spend quite that much yet. Gunsafes.com has Shop Safes: Gun Safes, Gun Cabinets, Fire Safes, and Handgun Safes! free shipping on safes. If you really start looking into them you'll probably want a little more for a higher quality safe. Also, consider the weight and how you'll actually be moving it. I know Academy will help load a 700lb safe into a truck but then it's up to you to unload and get it into place.
They (Gander Mountain) have people they recomend to use to deliver it (at least the store by my house).....they set mine up & bolted it to the floor.
EDIT: I just checked their prices.....the same safe I got from Gander cost $600.00 more at that website.
Don't try it with an 1,800 lb safe....(G)
Just a thought...
Interested in this thread because as we pursue gun owner ship in a family with 4 kids 8-12 (and their inquisitive friends) lock-up and various types of gun safes become a necessity!
Haven't made my choice yet other than I plan to have a key-pad pistol safe (possibly several - 2 in our bed room and one in each truck) as well as a traditional cabinet sized gun safe.
But I digress...
I was talking with someone yesterday about a safe door offered by Winchester - just the door. He has a closet full so I brought it up. Build in reinforcement into the closet, add a welded steel door frame, finish it out and top it off with the safe door. He brought up a novel way to cheaply and effectively build in the closet. Chain link fence lining the inside of the closet at regular intervals lag bolted to the studs. We know from prior reporting that this will actually stop a chain saw from cutting thru the walls of a shed, so it should work the same for the interior wall of a house.
Anyone else considered this or another variation?
Interested in this thread because as we pursue gun owner ship in a family with 4 kids 8-12 (and their inquisitive friends) lock-up and various types of gun safes become a necessity!
Haven't made my choice yet other than I plan to have a key-pad pistol safe (possibly several - 2 in our bed room and one in each truck) as well as a traditional cabinet sized gun safe.
But I digress...
I was talking with someone yesterday about a safe door offered by Winchester - just the door. He has a closet full so I brought it up. Build in reinforcement into the closet, add a welded steel door frame, finish it out and top it off with the safe door. He brought up a novel way to cheaply and effectively build in the closet. Chain link fence lining the inside of the closet at regular intervals lag bolted to the studs. We know from prior reporting that this will actually stop a chain saw from cutting thru the walls of a shed, so it should work the same for the interior wall of a house.
Anyone else considered this or another variation?
Yes I am considering this since I am only in college and dont have a great deal of cash just laying around. What I had thought of was to change the dead bolt on a closet to a better quality one, add another hinge in the middle of the door, chage the hinges with tamper proof screws and to the inside portion of the closet, put a metal strip on the edge on the door so that it could not be pried, and reinforce the door by screwing in metal pipe to the backside at different intervals.
I would not reinforce the walls since they are made of brick.
Don't forget to reinforce the top/ceiling of the closet.....
What you need (what we all need) is a GUN ROOM ~ secured of course.
When I remodeled my bathroom and closet, I built the closet as a tornado shelter. There are solid concrete blocks between the studs, four layers of plywood on the inside and outside of the walls, four layers on the ceiling, a welded steel door frame, a steel door with three deadbolts and the whole thing is strapped together with Simpson straps and anchor bolts every foot. The two things that keep me from storing my guns in there are moisture issues with it opening to the bathroom, and my wife feels like she needs all 8' x8' for her clothes. I do get a little two foot section for my clothes. When I remodeled it, I ended up with a perfect sized space for a new larger gun safe in our bedroom, but that closet would make a wonderful gun room.
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I think I would need about twenty of those in constant rotation to protect my guns in there. Plus, it wouldn't help with needing to take space from my wife. That is the bigger issue I think. I will stick to the two gun safes and one marriage I have now, instead of no safes and no marriage that stealing her closet space would probably bring about. Thanks though.Eva-Dry Mini DeHumidifier, 5x6" 10 Year Life for Gun Cases and Closets and Safes
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So, in the event of a storm, at least her clothes will be safe.....
