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I'm going on my first elk hunt next week in New Mexico ! Cleaning up my rifles getting ready and I put my rifles into my 6 month old canon safe as I turned the handle to lock the safe I hear something fall inside safe. The safe locking mechanism apparently broke! I called cannon talked to them , the requested I take video and send it to them , so I did. The guy explained it is gonna have to be drilled out by a locksmith and they will epoxy the drill marks . I told him I am goin on a very expensive elk hunt next week and he said this process was going to be a minimum of two weeks! So now my guns are locked up and I'm going to have a safe with possibly visible drill marks. I'm never going to by cannon again! I hope my hunt goes well after this day I'm having
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That's a first!
Is the handle moving freely or was it something else that broke?
I had someone hit the handle of my safe and the built in shear key sheared but I was able to enter the combination then while pushing on the door to take pressure off of the bolts spin the crap out of the handle enough to get it to open.
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Don't let a busted safe or lack of a rifle interfere with your hunt. Don't worry about the safe, even if it has to be drilled it is only a Canon and a couple more holes won't matter.
As far as the rifle, go buy yourself a decent used rifle of your liking, scope it up nicely and take it hunting. You can always sell it if you ever get back into your Canon safe and get your other rifle out.
The cost of your hunt/trip to New Mexico won't be cheap, so don't ruin it over the unnecessary worry of incidental things like rifles and safes...
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Warranty.? Seriously they should replace the door if it gets drilled don't you think?
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I agree about just buying a good used rifle and not sweating it.
I had something similar years ago when I was the office mgr for a trucking company. I tried to open the ancient office safe and when I turned the handle, nothing happened. The pins wouldn't retract. This safe was a good 50 years out of warranty. A locksmith couldn't do a thing with it.
We took it out on the dock, laid it on it's back, and I used a metal cutting blade in a skillsaw to cut a 12" square hole in the door. We chipped out the poured firebrick and found that a screw had fallen out of the mechanism so the handle just wiggled around without pulling back the pins.
The locksmith took the door off and had it welded up and repainted. It looked pretty good.
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This is your chance to pick up that rifle you have had your eye on.
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I'm going on my first elk hunt next week in New Mexico ! Cleaning up my rifles getting ready and I put my rifles into my 6 month old canon safe as I turned the handle to lock the safe I hear something fall inside safe. The safe locking mechanism apparently broke! I called cannon talked to them , the requested I take video and send it to them , so I did. The guy explained it is gonna have to be drilled out by a locksmith and they will epoxy the drill marks . I told him I am goin on a very expensive elk hunt next week and he said this process was going to be a minimum of two weeks! So now my guns are locked up and I'm going to have a safe with possibly visible drill marks. I'm never going to by cannon again! I hope my hunt goes well after this day I'm having I will send you my 338-06 and forty rounds loaded with the 225 gr AB. All dialed in from a grizz/black bear hunt a few years ago. I am in the Hill Country. Seriously, let me know.
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Get the cutting torch out!!!
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I sent an email to the president of the company, I just got a call that their chief locksmith is gonna call me in morning. Apparently there is a way to open this thing by laying it on its side and hitting it with a rubber mallet. I'm not sure that would be good for the 40 guns I have in it.
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Ha! Post that method up when you get it. I would be pissed off and pitch a fit. I would also buy a new rifle and scope in an appropriate caliber and get it sighted in ASAP. Heck, send the bill to the president of Cannon along with a nice note explaining why you had to buy the rifle and see if he pays, you never know. If he balks, send him a bill for your time sighting in and buying the rifle at your current hourly rate.
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I will send you my 338-06 and forty rounds loaded with the 225 gr AB. All dialed in from a grizz/black bear hunt a few years ago. I am in the Hill Country. Seriously, let me know. [/quote]
@EdMWOW! What a great guy! I admire your offer. You were obviously raised right!
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Sorry to hear about your situation. I would be disapointed as well. I would do whatever I needed to get a rifle for that hunt and deal with the safe issue when I got back. To great of a hunt to be ruined over something you cant do anything about.
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I'd be seriously thinking of a bonzai run up to the Hill Country to take EdM up on his offer. Middle of the night, early in the morning, take a day off from work, abandon the wife and kids,.... damn the torpedos-- full speed ahead. The safe will still be there when you get back.
Honestly, some of the folks on this "campfire" are really great people.
Don't miss out on a hunt like that .
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In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
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I'm going on my first elk hunt next week in New Mexico ! Cleaning up my rifles getting ready and I put my rifles into my 6 month old canon safe as I turned the handle to lock the safe I hear something fall inside safe. The safe locking mechanism apparently broke! I called cannon talked to them , the requested I take video and send it to them , so I did. The guy explained it is gonna have to be drilled out by a locksmith and they will epoxy the drill marks . I told him I am goin on a very expensive elk hunt next week and he said this process was going to be a minimum of two weeks! So now my guns are locked up and I'm going to have a safe with possibly visible drill marks. I'm never going to by cannon again! I hope my hunt goes well after this day I'm having I will send you my 338-06 and forty rounds loaded with the 225 gr AB. All dialed in from a grizz/black bear hunt a few years ago. I am in the Hill Country. Seriously, let me know. Well done, Ed.
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Agreed Ed is a fine example of how all should be. Still waiting on my call from cannon. I found a 300 wsm in back of my other safe I forgot was in it, so I'm spending today dialing it out to 500yrds with 185 Berger !
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Agreed Ed is a fine example of how all should be. Still waiting on my call from cannon. I found a 300 wsm in back of my other safe I forgot was in it, so I'm spending today dialing it out to 500yrds with 185 Berger ! LMAO! That forgotten WSM might quickly become your new favorite rifle.
America needs to understand that our troops are not 'disposable'. Each represents a family; Fathers, Mothers, Sons, Daughters, Cousins, Uncles, Aunts... Our Citizens are our most valuable treasure; we waste far too many.
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I'm very thankful I put it in the wrong safe right now
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You have another safe? Is it a Cannon?  Better just put that 300 under your bed until the hunt....
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Lol! It's a sentry in my closet , had for 10 yrs,. A fraction of the cost and never gave me one problem
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Even has a keyed back up, wish my cannon did right now
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