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Need a bigger safe
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This is why everybody says you need to do the math before you buy your first -- add up all the guns you think you'll buy in the next decade, and double that.
Resale market is not great, dealers might buy a used safe, pennies on the dollar. Otherwise you'll need to find somebody who happens to be in the market for a safe about the size of your old one, and then also deal with moving it.
Resale market is not great, dealers might buy a used safe, pennies on the dollar. Otherwise you'll need to find somebody who happens to be in the market for a safe about the size of your old one, and then also deal with moving it.
OfficerObie59
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Yeah pal, don't we all.
What do you have, a tractor supply, dicks, costco type safe like a winchester, field and stream or big horn?
Even if a safe were in perfect condition, I would pay more than 50% of the new price. I would need to go to the house, move it out or whatever to get it in the truck vs. getting one at a store and they load it with a forklift or it's delivered. And I say 50% max but it would almost certainly be a decent amount less than that.
Even if a safe were in perfect condition, I would pay more than 50% of the new price. I would need to go to the house, move it out or whatever to get it in the truck vs. getting one at a store and they load it with a forklift or it's delivered. And I say 50% max but it would almost certainly be a decent amount less than that.
Even once you figure out how many rifles you will be storing, you get to play the capacity game. Unless you own nothing but bolt action .22s, throw their number right out the window.
There is a simple formula to figure out how many rifles a safe will actually hold. Take the number they give you, divide by 2 and subtract 1. (X=Y/2 -1) Therefore a safe advertised as holding 24, will actually hold 11
There is a simple formula to figure out how many rifles a safe will actually hold. Take the number they give you, divide by 2 and subtract 1. (X=Y/2 -1) Therefore a safe advertised as holding 24, will actually hold 11
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EJFudd
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Rather than trading up to one bigger safe, consider buying a second safe... and then a third safe... (rinse and repeat). Unless you go big dollars/super-premium, nothing slows down a thief or limits his haul better than utilizing multiple safes (especially if dispersed throughout the house).
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Kicker96FS
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Or bolted all together.
I'll be posting one for sale soon. Summit safe Rainier edition. 56 x 28 x 72. Still gotta empty it and take some pics.
PM me if you're serious. It'll take a rigger or a small army to move it.
I hate to get rid of it, but uncle sam bent me over and fisted me this year. Some stuffs gotta go.
PM me if you're serious. It'll take a rigger or a small army to move it.
I hate to get rid of it, but uncle sam bent me over and fisted me this year. Some stuffs gotta go.
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Or like others said if cash is short now get what you can afford and buy a second one later on. I have already filled my first one to capacity and will be getting a second one soon.......but my safes are not in the "pretty" part of the house so having more than one is not an issue at all. Tractor supply sells a good Winchester one for like 300 bucks.........just buy.....fill.....buy another and fill.....repeat.
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Walmart had a nice fireproof/water proof stack on. Electronic lock. For under 500
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Just buy another one....two is always better than one....
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Have you considered the rifle rods that can go in the safe in place of the plywood with the cutouts to lean your rifles against?
How big is your safe?
Mine are supposed to come in tomorrow and my 24 gun safe is overloaded because of my bolt action rifles. Im trying to avoid having the bolt ding up the wood on the guns
I'll post before and after pictures here of it works out.
How big is your safe?
Mine are supposed to come in tomorrow and my 24 gun safe is overloaded because of my bolt action rifles. Im trying to avoid having the bolt ding up the wood on the guns
I'll post before and after pictures here of it works out.
This started getting crowded when I added 2 K98s and a MSAR and I had a hard time fitting them all in it. The MSAR was weird and took up a lot of space. for being so small. I am avoiding having them ding each other up, especially the bolt guns. I just also noticed my GSG5 isn't in there either.
I bought these rifle rods to get rid of the partition. There's so much more space now. But my issue now is that I want to organize it better than what I did last night at 2am.
My only complaint so far is for shorter guns these rods are only 16". I've contacted the seller and asked if they offer anything longer. The solution to that is to put a box of ammo or two under those guns. You can see that my AR barely hangs on and the MSAR is too short even with the box
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Damn never even thought of that. Too focused with just the simply the barrel.
That will definitely work will update with a picture after I do that
of course, you're gonna need a new house, only way to get it inside... 
