That works for you, for now. When you have several nice scoped rifles (even different calibers for different things), that you don't want banging into each other, shotguns and rimfire rifles, not to mention dad and grandad's heirlooms, or you children start getting their own guns, it fills up quick. They shouldn't be stored like golf clubs. These folks are just speaking from experience, trying to save someone else the pain of having to do it again. Also, if you're working so much that you can't enjoy them, look for a job that pay's more, while requiring less time. You can't take that money with you either.
Bownut, I speak from experience as well. I've had this safe 7 years and moved it from the house I was in when I bought it, then moved it to the one I bought last summer. And I can comprehend the idea of what a crowded gun safe would be like. I got 99 problems but a crowded safe ain't one.
JBt, first off, my dad wasn't a hunter, he taught me how to fish though. Granddad on my mom's side was an Grade-A asshole drunk that used to beat my mom with his metal golf cleats when he got really drunk, so thankfully he was not a gun owner cause he'd a likely skinned one of them smoke wagons one night and wasted some folks. My other granddad was a WWII vet who was in fact a bird hunter, and come to think of it I never knew what happened to his guns. He passed before I came into the world, but I'll be sure to ask my Uncle what ever came of his bird guns. So there's no heirlooms to be had at mi casa.
Second, it's not like I never shoot them. Yes, I work hard Monday-Friday at a job I love, then go do military duty one weekend a month and whatever other times they dictate. That with the other stuff that comes along with being married to woman who has 2 jobs, while we raise 2 youngins, yeah it's a lot. Doesn't leave much play time. And at my kids' age taking them along on grueling hunts like I like to do, just don't make sense. I simply said I don't shoot them enough, the way I feel they deserve to be shot. I mean guns were made for shooting right? That's what I got mine for. But no matter how much you shoot, is it ever enough? And we have a small safe for documents/passports, etc, good thing is even if put them in gun safe they wouldn't take up much space, especially not enough to justify having to get a bigger safe.
Steelin, it was my decision. I got the safe that suited my needs and it'll continue to suit my needs for the foreseeable future.
If I run out of space anytime soon I'll be sure to check in here to apologize and allow you guys the opportunity to tell me "I told ya so."
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Last edited by willyworm; 08-13-2017 at 10:10 PM.
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Delta in a nutshell: Breeding grounds + small wetlands + big blocks of grass cover + predator removal + nesting structures + enough money to do the job= plenty of ducks to keep everyone smiling!
"For those that will fight for it...FREEDOM...has a flavor the protected shall never know."
-L/Cpl Edwin L. "Tim" Craft
I can definitely agree that 24 gun safe can't really accommodate 24 guns nicely. As for my point, I think you missed it. I didn't start any argument about how many guns a person needs. That's a judgement call each man has to make for himself. I merely stated my opinion on the size of the safe he needs, which differed from the other fellers' apparently.
And I actually did offer input on the matter. He don't need to get a gargantuan safe because y'all filled reel's head with the thought that he needed a larger safe than he actually does.
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Last edited by willyworm; 08-13-2017 at 03:12 PM.
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Delta in a nutshell: Breeding grounds + small wetlands + big blocks of grass cover + predator removal + nesting structures + enough money to do the job= plenty of ducks to keep everyone smiling!
"For those that will fight for it...FREEDOM...has a flavor the protected shall never know."
-L/Cpl Edwin L. "Tim" Craft
I braced under mine myself, it weighs 1600 lbs unloaded. I put bracing under the hoist and thru bolted it with threaded rod to the floor
*joist.
Trust me. I own a safe and lock business in West Columbia and have been selling and installing gun safes, fire safes, burglary safes and more for over 50 years. You DO NOT need any more support under your safe. A freezer full of food is typically over a thousand pounds and you did not do anything extra there did you? You actually weigh way more per square inch of the floor you are standing on and you have never fallen through a floor I assume. We take 800 pound safes upstairs all the time and have never experienced any problem. Now we do sell some safes that weigh over a ton that we would not put upstairs or on a questionable floor but a typical gun safe full of bullets, shells, guns and the like are fine on a normal floor.
I only hunt on days that end in "y"!
Thanks rooster.
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