04ctd

I went to the gun show over weekend, and some of what i thought were our old junk guns were on tables for a few hundred dollars.

gonna get one for my dad, since he has a bigger garage to mount it in...



seems tractor supply is just Harbor Freight for Farmers.

some thier stuff is good, but a lot seems to be chinese quality


where are you guys buying safes?

Lary Ellis (Top)

Think of a safe as only a means to slow them down a little, if they want in they will do so or steal the whole safe and take it where they can spend time on it.

A truly effective safe is one that can't be seen and nobody knows you have it

Redleg

Good analogy, I have often thought this.

oldblue6.5T

i have looked at a few safes from tractor supply as well as at shows and if all you want to do is slow them down, my buddy has two of them packed full...
that said, they do no good unless they are bolted down from the inside.

04ctd

I was thinking a 2 by 2 square, 5 feet tall, or so,

bolted thru to concrete

cbrahs

check the slop in the door when its closed and locked. a good safe will be tight so the thief can't get a pry bar into it and pop the door open. also what is the construction of the walls (wall thickness) and insulation and what temp is it good for in a fire and for how long with that temp before it melts down. obviously the heavier the construction, the higher fire rating is going to be more money but think of the valuables inside the safe and how much they are worth (birth certs, guns, ammo, jewelry, family heirlooms etc....)

bigfoot

I bought one of the larger ones from TS and feel that it’s a good safe for the money.
As others have said the idea is to make a thief take longer than they are willing to spend, so bolt it down and hope for the best. Seems like the one I bought was fire rated at 1700deg for 30 min but I’m not sure.
Oh and I bought the floor model, a large discount made a few scratches look real good.

04ctd

that's what I am thinking, as big as possible (hard to carry away) as cheap as possible (i am cheeeeep)

and bolt it into the concrete floor in all four corners, and not worry about it.

nothing i have is nice, or collectible, but my dad bought one .22LR in 1969 for $89, and my wife bought me a rifle in high school.

so, sentimental more than anything.

SIXSLUG

Ideally they should be bolted to the floor in two or more places and bolted to wall, preferrably an exterior one so in the case of fire its cooler than the middle of the building.

Any safe would be preferrable to no safe at all. As mentioned out of sight is a plus as is a basement where there is no man door.

bigfoot

Caution if you buy the one that I got it will cost at least a case to get enough help to move it . Give or take about 800 lbs.

SIXSLUG

On many you can remove the door by lifting straight up. This makes going down or up stairs a little easier and a good place to grab hold. THe door on mine weighs about 100 lbs so it reeduced the weight considerably for two guys to move it.

MrM4

I have one safe from tractor supply, they call it a 60 gun safe or soemthing like that. I do not rember the actual inches of the outside. The out side of safe seems to work fine, it locks and unlocks as it should but inside is another story, the thing began to fall apart the second week I had it. The material began to let go where the guns rest as well as on the walls.

I have multi Liberty Safes as well, they on the other hand are awsome.

As an FFL I refuse to buy junk, that is what the tractor supply safe turned out to be, lesson learned.

Some of my safes, and some of the things that keep them "safe".