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Sorry to hear about it man. I'm not local but I've got family in the UP, may be interested in some for parts

Sorry about your loss, happened to my oldest son while he was deployed overseas, he loss it all, guns and thousands of rounds of ammo, had a beautiful dream cabin in the woods. Came out with the clothes he had on his back. Also happened to a good friend of mine a few years ago, his was mostly smoke damage, son had some irreplaceable firearms that the insurance company low balled him on replacement valve, stay diligent with negotiating the valve of your contents. Insurance companies from what my son and the friend of mine experienced will work with you if you are diligent.

Sorry to hear bud. My house burned also in HS...

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really, it keeps my homeowner policy down, That wasn't directed at the OP that was for people complaining about their gun safe fire rating

I've heard of guys bolting a chain to their safe and having the chain run through their wall. The thought is maybe they can pull it through incase of a fire in a different part of the house quick. Sorry for your loss.

If my house is on fire, the last thing I’m going to worry about is a safe.

For those of you interested in the guns that burned here is a partial list.

COLT AR-15
FAL-IMBEL
HENRY H001L
HENRY H006M
HENRY H012M41
HENRY H006
HENRY H009
HENRY H010
HENRY BTH01188
H-= STANDARD DURA-MATIC
HI-STANDARDH-D MILITARY
HI-STANDARD SUPERMATIC CITATION
HOWA M1500 300 PRC
HOWA M1500 6'5- 300 WBY
MAUSER M18 6.5 PRC
MONTANA RIFLE 1999M 338 LAPUA
REM 870 WM 28 GA
REM 870 WM 12GA
REM 870 EXPRESS 12 GA
REM 788 25-284
REM 700 6.5-284
REM 700 375 H&H
REM 700 8MM
REM 700 35 WHELEN
REM 141 GAMEMASTER 35 REM
RUGER M77 338 MAG
RUGER M77 7 MAG
RUGER P89DC 9MM
RUGER MARK I TARGET
RUGER MARK II TARGET
RUGER NO 1 416 RIGBY
RUGER NO1 280
RUGER VAQUERO 44-40 2 OF THEM


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It doesn’t matter. When the fire is hot enough no gun safe will save the firearms.

About 20 years ago we built a new house to replace one burned down in the High Park fire. The owner was very involved in cowboy action shooting and had five gun safes. He showed us photos of the aftermath.

Three gun safes blew the doors open and were shaped like bowling balls, the other two the doors held but were still shaped like bowling balls.

He had a plastic bucket with about 50 lbs of silver coins in one safe. The silver was a big slag, with some coins melted into the slag a guy could still identify.

Sorry for your loss. I hope you have some insurance coverage to build back your collection. Care to elaborate on the what the battery was? Just curious.

Picture a potato wrapped in tin foil in campfire coals that you forget to take out. That’s a gun safe when a house burns to the ground, I’ve seen dozens of gun safes from houses that burned down in wildfires here in California, zero guns were saved by “fireproof” safes.

Sorry to hear this. I wish I could have seen the custom 788 25-284. Did you still have the 7mm08 you showed me last year?