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Gun safe

Interesting. i built a really fancy oak gun cabinet with a revolving turn-style but it only held 8 rifles. Never thought about one like the Pendleton. Might have to ponder that concept.

I think I might create a single rifle display and just rotate rifles out of the safe so I can at least look at one and feel like it's not standing against the wall ready to fall over.

Sounds like a plan to me.

Safe. Don't like not being able to fondle them, but don't want to have them stolen either. Did turn a China hutch into a beautiful display case, so I can have a bunch out to look at.

This is one of my safes, so don't get it confused with pictures from Loggah's vault -



modified to have removable cross bars -

No safe, unfortunately. I live on the second floor of a 100+ year old house. It is balloon framed which is solid enough but the joists and floor were not built to withstand the weight of a safe or safes sufficient to hold my collection. I got around it somewhat by walling off one end of a 4x20 foot closet with a heavy door, high end locks, and concealed hinges. It won't stop a determined professional house breaker but it'll slow him down. It should stop a doper looking to score for a fix. Besides, my landlord lives downstairs and they have to get past him and the alarms, and he's gunned up as well as I am and home all day every day.

A moot point because I'm going to sell all my guns and related stuff and start collecting Barbie Dolls.

You're still going to have to guard against Display Anxiety.

IMO.

Or Display Performance. I'm not sure which one we are talking about.

Wow, now I know why I can't find any old Savage 22's.....Gene has them all !

I had to buy gun safe my better half did not want her grandkids getting into my guns. I use to have them leaning in corners and up against walls in cases. Now they are secured in the safe

The single biggest problem with collecting is how to display. Myself I try not to own to many collectible rifles , once found I try and put them where they belong (a home that appreciates them) Don has done an amazing job on the vault but that coupled with the insurance would mean another mortgage payment for me. David brings his out for display at shows so many get to see the amazing rifle.

Maybe pictures on the net is the best way?

Don
I still hope to visit your vault someday, I was hoping it could be coupled with a moose hunt but chances of that look pretty slim now.

Simply fantastic work Loggah. I would never want to leave that space. Just Awesome!

Thanks for sharing,

dave

...just a sidenote to this posting.

Do a lot of homework when shopping for safes.. MANY of them are no more than a prettied up steel locker with a bit of fire retardency added.... and nearly no safe on the market is "fireproof".

For the price of a really good gun safe, 3k to $10k range, you could opt to build a vault room, or fire-proof room for the same money or less, and have a lot more storage area. It would likely lack a bit of the security factor of a good safe though..

One part of my daily job, is that I am the locksmith at the College I work at. And we do have a few safes for money, papers, and for our Police department. Over the years I have had to deal with safes off and on and have learned a lot about what really makes a good one, and a cheap one.

Our chief of Police was enraged one day, when I got a call that their safe (I didnt get to pick it out...) wouldnt open. It took about 3 minutes to defeat the lock, and was in...All because it was a cheap safe, all dressed up with pretty paint and shiny chrome handles.

Once I had it open I showed him the actual lock, linkage, etc...and how weak it was built, he said, "that thing is a piece of @#$%^ !

Now, i am not saying all safes are bad. Any safe, or locker sure helps keep kids out and provides some protection. But, if you really want a good strong safe, do your homework and pay the price.

dave

My Old Man was too cheap to buy a safe. He would go around hiding his guns all around the house when leaving for extended periods of time. He died two days after they came home from a month in Maine, and it was up to me to suss out all of his hidey holes. Mom wasn't much help as you can imagine. I found them all but one. I knew he had a Ruger .22 semiauto pistol (I gave it to him) but I was darned if I could find it. Twelve years later Mom sold the house and I helped clean the place out. When I pulled his homemade workbench/cabinet away from the wall I spied a mysterious hole in the drywall- looked like a rat hole. Sure enough, inside the hole was the pistol, wrapped in an oily rag.

That's quite a story. I trust the oily rag kept it well.

U sure them bar b dolls



Don't need air in em?

I had them strewed all over the house also,could never find the gun i wanted ,when i wanted !!! I finally got pizzed and said enough and built the vault . The problem was in building a large vault was then you had to finish filling it !! I had to kill a lot of trees,and dig a lot of gravel to build that vault building,but i had a lot of other logging and historical collectables to store so it was a twofold project. Don