Posted: 12/21/2013 6:48:34 PM EDT
Just picked up an 8 gun fire resistant safe for $100 off CL. The door seems solid, but the body feels super thin. It's ~250lbs, but when I tap on the back and sides, it feels like a filing cabinet. I just got it for overflow, and ammo storage...but damn.
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Just picked up an 8 gun fire resistant safe for $100 off CL. The door seems solid, but the body feels super thin. It's ~250lbs, but when I tap on the back and sides, it feels like a filing cabinet. I just got it for overflow, and ammo storage...but damn.I think they are rated as a storage container but not a safe. hence the price and weight |
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Just picked up an 8 gun fire resistant safe for $100 off CL. The door seems solid, but the body feels super thin. It's ~250lbs, but when I tap on the back and sides, it feels like a filing cabinet. I just got it for overflow, and ammo storage...but damn.I think they are rated as a storage container but not a safe. hence the price and weight No, they sell both. This one is advertised as a safe. |
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It's not a safe. It's actually listed as a fire cabinet, or something to that effect.
Mount it solidly and position it so that the door cannot be attacked with pry tools. Or put it out in the open with nothing of value in it as a distraction for you hidden safe. |
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Just picked up an 8 gun fire resistant safe for $100 off CL. The door seems solid, but the body feels super thin. It's ~250lbs, but when I tap on the back and sides, it feels like a filing cabinet. I just got it for overflow, and ammo storage...but damn.I think they are rated as a storage container but not a safe. hence the price and weight No, they sell both. This one is advertised as a safe. I know. I stand by my comment. |
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Let me know if I get anything wrong.
If you dont own or can't afford a 2000 lb $4000 safe you are a slack jawed faggot and any hood rat can bust into your RSC in 30 sec with a tooth pick. Why do you want your guns stolen and why do you dishonor your family OP? |
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Let me know if I get anything wrong. If you dont own or can't afford a 2000 lb $4000 safe you are a slack jawed faggot and any hood rat can bust into your RSC in 30 sec with a tooth pick. Why do you want your guns stolen and why do you dishonor your family OP? I didn't say it was horrible, just not what I expected for a "safe". 
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Let me know if I get anything wrong. If you dont own or can't afford a 2000 lb $4000 safe you are a slack jawed faggot and any hood rat can bust into your RSC in 30 sec with a tooth pick. Why do you want your guns stolen and why do you dishonor your family OP? I didn't say it was horrible, just not what I expected for a "safe". Yet, you bought it anyway.
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Yet, you bought it anyway.
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Let me know if I get anything wrong. If you dont own or can't afford a 2000 lb $4000 safe you are a slack jawed faggot and any hood rat can bust into your RSC in 30 sec with a tooth pick. Why do you want your guns stolen and why do you dishonor your family OP? I didn't say it was horrible, just not what I expected for a "safe". Yet, you bought it anyway.
It was $100, and I'll use it for ammo and cheaper guns...I'll bolt it to the floor, and it will work a little better than a gun cabinet...at least it's fire rated. |
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For the haters, I've had my ammo in ammo cans stacked in a closet...this is a step up from that at least.
It's small... 
I can either use it to stack quite a bit of ammo, or use it for some ammo and overflow firearms. I guess I really don't need to put SKS's and Mosin's in a safe anyway...the ammo is more expensive.
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For the haters, I've had my ammo in ammo cans stacked in a closet...this is a step up from that at least. It's small... http://www.northerntool.com/images/product/2000x2000/233/23313_2000x2000.jpg http://www.gunsafesnow.com/images/products/detail/GS8DSopen.jpg I can either use it to stack quite a bit of ammo, or use it for some ammo and overflow firearms. I guess I really don't need to put SKS's and Mosin's in a safe anyway...the ammo is more expensive. Better than those ones that use a key and are made out of beer cans. |
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$100 I'd buy one and find a use for it. They make different grades from what are basically fancy filing cabinets, to cheap safes, to decent safes. This is a cheap safe and the bodies on them are very thin. But for a $100... not much to complain about. That was my thinking, I couldn't buy a storage cabinet for that much. |
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Better than those ones that use a key and are made out of beer cans. Quoted:
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For the haters, I've had my ammo in ammo cans stacked in a closet...this is a step up from that at least. It's small... http://www.northerntool.com/images/product/2000x2000/233/23313_2000x2000.jpg http://www.gunsafesnow.com/images/products/detail/GS8DSopen.jpg I can either use it to stack quite a bit of ammo, or use it for some ammo and overflow firearms. I guess I really don't need to put SKS's and Mosin's in a safe anyway...the ammo is more expensive. Better than those ones that use a key and are made out of beer cans. I fear it may indeed be made from beer cans, would stop smash and grab types maybe. Better than nothing, and couldn't pass for the price. |
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They've way WAY better than most people have here from what I've seen - the bedroom closet! In my ten plus years here I've seen a dozen or more thefts of AR-15's and SKS/AKs from closets but haven't heard of a safe (or even cabinet) being broke into.
Eventually when you start to add up the value of your firearms you reach a point where a Stack-On cabinet isn't going to cut it. When I reached that point and bought a "real*" safe the Stack-ons became storage for the ammo and high-cap magazines ... which in today's politically driven market might be worth more than the firearms! * +1000 pounds/dollars |
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Quoted:I'll bolt it to the floor, and it will work a little better than a gun cabinet...at least it's fire rated. I lived in apartments for the first dozen or so years of my marriage and since I was in the Navy I moved every 24 to 36 months. It would have been crazy trying to move a thousand pound safe around and who knows if the apartments flooring was rating at that kind of weight? I use to run four bolt through the carpet into the wooden floor and two more into the wall studs up high hiding the thing inside the master bedroom closet. That's the first place a thief is going to look but the last place a party guest is going to poke their nose into. |
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I use one for a mag/ammo locker. I wouldn't store my rifles in one with confidence.......it would take about 30 seconds so cut the top off with a reciprocating saw but mine serves the purpose I bought it for well. I'd bet it would take more than 30 seconds...but I get your point. I'll use it for ammo, tried to put ammo and a few Mosin M44's in it...no deal. So ammo only it is. |
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I'd bet it would take more than 30 seconds...but I get your point. I'll use it for ammo, tried to put ammo and a few Mosin M44's in it...no deal. So ammo only it is. Quoted:
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I use one for a mag/ammo locker. I wouldn't store my rifles in one with confidence.......it would take about 30 seconds so cut the top off with a reciprocating saw but mine serves the purpose I bought it for well. I'd bet it would take more than 30 seconds...but I get your point. I'll use it for ammo, tried to put ammo and a few Mosin M44's in it...no deal. So ammo only it is. A truck box is better for ammo if you actually want to be able to thumb through it. |
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Quoted: Just picked up an 8 gun fire resistant safe for $100 off CL. The door seems solid, but the body feels super thin. It's ~250lbs, but when I tap on the back and sides, it feels like a filing cabinet. I just got it for overflow, and ammo storage...but damn.It's a stack on.... |
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A truck box is better for ammo if you actually want to be able to thumb through it. Quoted:
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I use one for a mag/ammo locker. I wouldn't store my rifles in one with confidence.......it would take about 30 seconds so cut the top off with a reciprocating saw but mine serves the purpose I bought it for well. I'd bet it would take more than 30 seconds...but I get your point. I'll use it for ammo, tried to put ammo and a few Mosin M44's in it...no deal. So ammo only it is. A truck box is better for ammo if you actually want to be able to thumb through it. All my ammo is stored in labeled ammo cans, by caliber. |
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A truck box is better for ammo if you actually want to be able to thumb through it. Quoted:
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I use one for a mag/ammo locker. I wouldn't store my rifles in one with confidence.......it would take about 30 seconds so cut the top off with a reciprocating saw but mine serves the purpose I bought it for well. I'd bet it would take more than 30 seconds...but I get your point. I'll use it for ammo, tried to put ammo and a few Mosin M44's in it...no deal. So ammo only it is. A truck box is better for ammo if you actually want to be able to thumb through it. It's a stop gap for me. I filled the Liberty and needed to do something with the ammo/mag stash while the bunker is being built. 
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The key is to bolt it to the wall studs and/or floor so they can't tip it over on its backside and pry on the door with their body weight. You can even pry open the high dollar safes if you can tip them over onto the floor. not mine you wont any safe you can pry open is a locker. |
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I use one for a mag/ammo locker. I wouldn't store my rifles in one with confidence.......it would take about 30 seconds so cut the top off with a reciprocating saw but mine serves the purpose I bought it for well. I'd bet it would take more than 30 seconds...but I get your point. I'll use it for ammo, tried to put ammo and a few Mosin M44's in it...no deal. So ammo only it is. A truck box is better for ammo if you actually want to be able to thumb through it. All my ammo is stored in labeled ammo cans, by caliber. Me too.. but sometimes you need the can at the bottom of the stack (if it were in a stackon safe) |
Stack-On cabinets are actually pretty good at protecting against house guests with sticky fingers. 
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Just picked up an 8 gun fire resistant safe for $100 off CL. The door seems solid, but the body feels super thin. It's ~250lbs, but when I tap on the back and sides, it feels like a filing cabinet. I just got it for overflow, and ammo storage...but damn.A guy just posted elsewhere he had his pried open the other day and took all of his guns. Good luck to you. |