Maybe this too, one end hooked to the porch, one end hanging over a low tree limb, near the big dog water bowl.
Posted on 12/15/2022 6:03:02 AM PST by Excellence
I still love my 12 gun walnut gun cabinet with glass doors. AInt no one gonna walk off with it and you have to destroy it to get in if its locked. Looks a lot better setting in the den that a huge steel box. All the rest of the stuff is locked up in the reloading room in the basement.
What am I missing with the whole “gun safe” thing?
Since you are looking to save money, beware that many safes are will not survive a fire. You want to be sure the safe can survive a house fire with prolonged exposure to hundreds of degrees.
Do not be fooled by labels “fire rated” and others that offer minimal protection.
Also, as others pointed out, you want the safe to use hardened steels that are more difficult to cut than standard mild steel.
If your son works and has income, you could tell him that you want him to have a great safe and that you will contribute to it. That way he will get a top quality unit that will last a lifetime.
Maybe this too, one end hooked to the porch, one end hanging over a low tree limb, near the big dog water bowl.
Tractor Supply Center sells them, and they deliver. (But you have to get in the house yourself!)
I’d also suggest that you buy one that is fireproof.
Also, I would not store bulk ammo in the gun safe. Keep it somewhere else, with fire in mind.
One can make his own safe out of something, no one would expect is a gun safe, like an old metal cabinet made for office materials with the shelfs removed and a pad lock put on it, or some Jerry rig system that only the owner knows how to unlock.
LOL, I like it. Misdirection works wonders, it’s how magicians make a living.
That never happens in real life burglaries. Almost unheard of for a burglar to show up with power tools and the skill set. If they had those they’d have a job. Ask any cop how often Home safes get broken open with power tools. Never…
Another idea: a million coyotes have been shot because they can’t resist a recording of a rabbit in distress. Point being, if a coyote can’t tell a real rabbit from a recorded rabbit, neither can anybody approaching your house tell a real Rottweiler barking in the house from a recorded one.
Anybody comes up the driveway or rings the doorbell, hit the button on the electronic Rottweiler. Then the giant dog water bowl and dog chain will be totally believable.
You don’t appear to have a Costco close, but they often have a decent safe in-store at a good price.
“home invaders will be able to force the home owner to open it. SOP is to threaten to kill or torture a wife or children to force the owner to open the safe.
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This….
An old fridge or deep freezer in the garage or basement can also hide a safe. You can even get them free, people put them out to the curb all the time.
Ditto - in some ways, putting all of your firearms in one container just makes things easy for burglars. If you don't have an extensive collection (or children, and where it doesn't conflict with local law, etc.), dispersing firearms in concealed or inaccessible locations throughout a residence can potentially have benefits. Every situation likely has a unique solution.
What folks probably do NOT want to do is what one of my acquaintances did. He went out and bought the best safe he could afford. When it was delivered, the professional movers advised him that his basement stairs would collapse, if they tried to put it where he wanted it. The only other alternative was the living room, so that's where it went. And from that day onward, every stranger at his front door knew he had a big ol' gun safe in his home. Kind of counterproductive...
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That coke machine is great.
And on top of that, you put a bunch of pipes and stuff in a readily-found REAL safe, so thieves can beat themselves up on the decoy.
My son is taking care of me in my old age, taking me into his own home. He’s taken time off work both when I had kidney stones and broke my arm last year to cart me back and forth to hospital and doctor’s appointments. I have use of his truck when he’s not using it, which is most of the time, and he pays the insurance. How many sons do that for their mom? It is a small thing for me to get him a gun safe.
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