How many safes?

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I've alway heard the advice that you should buy the biggest gun safe you can afford...and I've come to see the wisdom in it.

I went to shut the door on mine last night and it wouldn't close (a 51 gun safe). I could rearrange some things to make more room but it's getting crowded. I mentioned getting another safe in front of the wife and that led to semi-joking comments about getting a bigger house to accommodate another safe. :what:

Who on THR has the record? How many gun safes do you have?
 
We built a custom home and had a Browning Pro Steel vault door installed during construction, anchored into the concrete slab, with an arms room behind it, with 3/8 inch steel plate welded all around and on top. Nobody is going to get in that one very easily.

Too bad all my guns fell into the lake during that horrible accident a few years ago.....:cuss:
 
If you stay into the gun game long enough, you'll aquire enough guns/reloading/cleaning/gunsmithing gear to warrant a room or two for your "stuff". It's the same logic women use to get a "Walk In Closet".
Who in their right mind has enough clothes/shoes to justify a WHOLE ROOM. And besides, how much money would you get back if you sold every thing in the closet. (And if TSHTF, is that new blouse gonna protect you?)
 
After reading these posts I feel that my family and I are doing it wrong. We just have guns in various places around the house, with no locks on them.
 
well, first off what type of "safe"
cause most aren't actually safes, they are RSC
secondly, after so many, mightn't just make more sense to harden an interior room or basement room and just use the safe for stuff out of the room or special stuff in the room?
 
One large safe in the gun room. I try to limit it to guns and only my higher end guns with several loaded magazines. The remainder of lower end guns is in a locked cabinet. I may add a lower end safe for that stuff and the ammunition is separate.

Cost justification to my wife was pretty easy as all our important papers as well as her jewelery collection has a section in the safe devoted to those things. :)

Ron
 
Next house plan has a vault designed into it.

Safes - two of the big ones for business inventory, several smaller ones for personal stuff. I like having several smaller ones better, as I don't have to pull out a dozen guns if I happen to want the one in the back.
 
Unless you fill it with 22 bolt action rifles i think the number of guns indicated by safe manufacturers is BS. I had to upgrade to a much bigger gun safe but assault rifles and guns with optics take up lots of room. Currently i have a good safe for my more valuable guns and a metal gun cabinet for the cheaper guns, mags, accessories, etc. If you do start out with a smaller safe you can always sell it down the line and upgrade but its cheaper just to start big.
 
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Only 2 and they overflow now.

But if you want to see THE ultamate safe/gun room ?.

Google Charleton Hestons gun safe/room.

Promise its worth the search.
 
first one was a 24 gun safe. Bear in mind that when they say "24 long guns" they mean 24 .22 chipmunks, lol. I've never been able to put more than 18 full size rifles in mine. The 24 gun safe has been sufficient for 5 years. Next one is going to be 50+ guns...the 24 gun safe will be the ammo dump, lol
 
I have to give credit to Sturdy Safe. Mine easily holds more long guns than they advertised, and none of the touch each other, and scoped rifles and ARs fit just fine. Kudos to their design.

I have one main safe, plus a few smaller specialized safes for keeping handguns close by while still being locked up from the child.
 
None, had a vault built in my house when we built it. You ain't loadin this one up and hauling it off! ;)

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None, had a vault built in my house when we built it. You ain't loadin this one up and hauling it off! ;)

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I don't mean to be nosy, but I'm assuming that isn't just 2X4 studs and drywall on the exterior walls?

I'm on my third (and last) one, all of which are located in different structures. I had to get a new one (Cannon from Tractor Supply) when my father died a couple of years ago and I inherited his guns. I'm feeling a little bit like a crazy hoarder, so I'm getting ready to sell off any of my guns that can be replaced by the ones I got from him.

I still have a motley collection of sheet metal RSC's from K-Mart bolted to the basement floor from before I bought my big safe. I can't decided whether to sell them on Craigslist or to use them for tools, etc.
 
3, trying to sell off a few and get down to 2
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Now why would you ruin a happy thread with a sad thought like this?

I've got too many guns but I learned long ago, the only guns I regret are the ones I sold.
 
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