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
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.
Mike
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...
Warranty.? Seriously they should replace the door if it gets drilled don't you think?
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.
No problems, only opportunities.
This is your chance to pick up that rifle you have had your eye on.
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.
Get the cutting torch out!!!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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 .
Best of luck,
Geno
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.
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 !
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.
I'm very thankful I put it in the wrong safe right now
You have another safe? Is it a Cannon?
Better just put that 300 under your bed until the hunt....
Lol! It's a sentry in my closet , had for 10 yrs,. A fraction of the cost and never gave me one problem
Even has a keyed back up, wish my cannon did right now
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 !
TFF - you know life is good when you find a rifle you forgot where you left it (or forgot you even had). I had a similar thing happen with a pair of Zeiss 10x40 Classics. Couldn't find them right before an elk hunt so bought another pair and kept looking for the Zeiss throughout the season. Found them in my safe six months later
The safe thing would have me in fits and I'd be cutting the damn thing apart, but sounds like you've got a better solution. Good luck on your hunt!
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 !
That'll do it.
Way better than finding a $20 bill in a shirt pocket in the closet!
GEno
After several emails and phone calls to cannon the have expedited paper work and have a locksmith coming today to drill it out and open it. I'm still not happy with the idea of just filling the hole with epoxy but at least I'll have my gun I want to take with me
I found a 300 wsm in back of my other safe I forgot was in it . . .
Memory loss has its "benefits" sometimes
+1 on EdM
The 300 Wizzum should be skookum elk medicine.
Seems like good news you will have your gun.
Safe is open! After seeing internals of this safe I will be getting rid of it and buying a better safe. Cannon is trash
Safe is open! After seeing internals of this safe I will be getting rid of it and buying a better safe. Cannon is trash
Tell Cannon to replace it with a new one, then sell it!
Go get that Elk. Good luck
Tell Cannon to replace it with a new one, then sell it!
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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.
The 300 wsm works great on elk...
Man, what a nightmare!!! I think my heart would have dropped right along with that pin!! Glad to see your guns are free!! Now go enjoy your hunt!!!
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 !
I've shot a lot of elk with a 300 WSM. However, there wasn't a single one of them that couldn't have been taken just as well with a 30-06 so I just bought one that weighs a lb less than the 300. I'm getting to old to pack extra weight around the mountains.
Thanks guys for keeping spirits high in this moment of craziness! Now the question , which one to bring . Montana in 338 win mag. , 35 whelen imp. , 300wsm, 26 nosler ? I've got them all dialed .
Jgotro,
If I were you, I would let them epoxy the door and leave it at that. I'd get the president back on the phone, thank him for getting the locksmith there quickly for your hunt, but remind him how much you spent on that safe and ask him if he would be happy having a new safe with epoxied holes on the door in his house. Might get you a new door or safe, and then you can sell it to buy a better safe. Personally I have a few Browning safes, which I've had no problems with, if you are looking for something else.
I'm voting 338, with a 35 W backup