Hey CB900F! I bet most people here don't know what a CB900F is? I am also a Honda Motorcycle fan! I have a CB650SC Nighthawk,and a VFR800FI. I'm a retired jeweler, and coin dealer,(who has been around many safes) and my wife is currently a banker for a large U.S. bank, and I can honestly say that "Gun Safes are made to keep children and honest people out, not PRO's". So with that said, I will say, buy what you can afford, and something is better than nothing! BTW, check out Wal-mart's Winchester gun safe 6030 with an LASafe electronic lock, for $540!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I was at Gander Mountain today, saw one RSC I liked called the Liberty L25, it was $1699 and I asked if they ever do sales he said rarely (but was very nice) also asked about any type of way to save on a safe purchase (open card get 10% off like someone else here recommended) he said no they don't do that... (altho he could have been mistaken) he was very nice tho vs the guy at dicks sporting goods who blew us off when we were looking at the brownings there last week...
Curious if Gander Mountains L25 is actually the same safe as on their website the Lincoln 25... (L for Lincoln) anyone know? I know it wasn't their Liberty made Timber Ridge line, this was the high gloss black with the fancy Liberty Logo on the front.
Wife liked that one alot tho and it "seemed" solid enough to keep someone out for a bit, (i realize its not a safe its a RSC) yet seemed a bit more solid than others, 4 side bolts 10G steel, etc...
Curious if anyone here knows about the Gander card thing, I read a few posts back here about opening a card there and getting 10% off yet that guy seemed to think that wasn't the case.. Maybe it was a xmas promo - also anyone know what time of year safes go on sale at Gander? He said they do run sales on safes just not very often so couldn't tell me when....
Thanks for any help on this,
Bill
Curious if Gander Mountains L25 is actually the same safe as on their website the Lincoln 25... (L for Lincoln) anyone know? I know it wasn't their Liberty made Timber Ridge line, this was the high gloss black with the fancy Liberty Logo on the front.
Wife liked that one alot tho and it "seemed" solid enough to keep someone out for a bit, (i realize its not a safe its a RSC) yet seemed a bit more solid than others, 4 side bolts 10G steel, etc...
Curious if anyone here knows about the Gander card thing, I read a few posts back here about opening a card there and getting 10% off yet that guy seemed to think that wasn't the case.. Maybe it was a xmas promo - also anyone know what time of year safes go on sale at Gander? He said they do run sales on safes just not very often so couldn't tell me when....
Thanks for any help on this,
Bill
also asked about any type of way to save on a safe purchase (open card get 10% off like someone else here recommended) he said no they don't do that... (altho he could have been mistaken)
I was told by workers at the the local Gander Mountain - I would get 10% off of my 1st purcahse when opening a charge card account - safes included. They told me that that a lot of safes are sold that way.
I was told by workers at the the local Gander Mountain - I would get 10% off of my 1st purcahse when opening a charge card account - safes included. They told me that that a lot of safes are sold that way.
YodaVader, I am totally not saying you were mistaken or wrong about the 10% off thing, heck I even found it online thru a google search (old test page)
http://test.gandermountain.com/mbna.asp
But just reading thru that it states
No interest and no payments until August 2004 on any combined Gander Mountain purchase over $299.
and I sure can't find a thing about a Gander Card on their current website, I will call Monday and ask whoever answers about their credit card and such but I wondered about how long ago it was you had asked and gotten that information, as the guy I asked today (seemed nice and helpful on the safe) yet when I asked about the credit card 10% off first purchase stuff he said they don't do that...
Heck I will call again Monday tho cuz I did like that L 25 Liberty safe they had, can anyone confirm is the L25 at Gander the same thing as the Lincoln 25 on Libertys website?
Bill
http://test.gandermountain.com/mbna.asp
But just reading thru that it states
No interest and no payments until August 2004 on any combined Gander Mountain purchase over $299.
and I sure can't find a thing about a Gander Card on their current website, I will call Monday and ask whoever answers about their credit card and such but I wondered about how long ago it was you had asked and gotten that information, as the guy I asked today (seemed nice and helpful on the safe) yet when I asked about the credit card 10% off first purchase stuff he said they don't do that...
Heck I will call again Monday tho cuz I did like that L 25 Liberty safe they had, can anyone confirm is the L25 at Gander the same thing as the Lincoln 25 on Libertys website?
Bill
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Anything is better than nothing. I had a cheap little fire safe. When my house was robbed they just checked to see if it was locked and moved on. Anything that slowed them down, stoped them. Just a spot light going on next door scared them away.
At one of the stops I made for Brinks, I saw a real safe that had been torch burned for hours. They never got in. I also saw a locksmith cut into a safe that "locked out", it only took him fifteen hours to get in.
At one of the stops I made for Brinks, I saw a real safe that had been torch burned for hours. They never got in. I also saw a locksmith cut into a safe that "locked out", it only took him fifteen hours to get in.
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I have read about great safes
The most interesting, and perhaps safests, safes are those that you don't see at all. They are the ones that are built into the structure of the building, be it a home, office or other commercial building. I am not refering to size or capacity, just the hidden aspect of them. Anyone can find a safe that is out in the open. It takes someone really searching for one that cannot be seen unless you start breaking into walls to find it.
The one safe I was drooling over was the one I saw at a gunshop which happened to be in a former bank. All of the guns were housed inside the former bank safe. Suffice it to say, when those guns were locked up, they were locked up. You would have to be a really dedicated person to break into it as the door looked to be about a foot thick at the least. I judged the capacity of it, if you put in floor to ceiling racks, removed the display counters and put in the equivalent of firearm bookshelves, to be around 500 rifles/shotguns at the least. Too bad you have to build a building around that kind of safe....
I think I would go with a safe that is able to be hidden inside the walls of a home, even if it came at a loss of capacity.
The most interesting, and perhaps safests, safes are those that you don't see at all. They are the ones that are built into the structure of the building, be it a home, office or other commercial building. I am not refering to size or capacity, just the hidden aspect of them. Anyone can find a safe that is out in the open. It takes someone really searching for one that cannot be seen unless you start breaking into walls to find it.
The one safe I was drooling over was the one I saw at a gunshop which happened to be in a former bank. All of the guns were housed inside the former bank safe. Suffice it to say, when those guns were locked up, they were locked up. You would have to be a really dedicated person to break into it as the door looked to be about a foot thick at the least. I judged the capacity of it, if you put in floor to ceiling racks, removed the display counters and put in the equivalent of firearm bookshelves, to be around 500 rifles/shotguns at the least. Too bad you have to build a building around that kind of safe....
I think I would go with a safe that is able to be hidden inside the walls of a home, even if it came at a loss of capacity.
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And FTLOSM in particular. Check the door of that Gander/Liberty very carefully. Insist that they prove to you that there is a full height & width sheet of plate steel in the door. Many Liberty's have a sheet metal wrap on an insulating core, door. No plate. Don't be taken in by the glossy paint & nice decal. A sheet metal door is cake to go through, almost no protection from burglary attack.
Look in the current Liberty catalogue where they show their fire protection. There are inset photo's of the multiple layers of sheet rock they use. The inset photo's are cross-section cutaway views of their 'safe' construction. Nowhere will you see plate steel. Lotsa sheet rock - no steel.
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And FTLOSM in particular. Check the door of that Gander/Liberty very carefully. Insist that they prove to you that there is a full height & width sheet of plate steel in the door. Many Liberty's have a sheet metal wrap on an insulating core, door. No plate. Don't be taken in by the glossy paint & nice decal. A sheet metal door is cake to go through, almost no protection from burglary attack.
Look in the current Liberty catalogue where they show their fire protection. There are inset photo's of the multiple layers of sheet rock they use. The inset photo's are cross-section cutaway views of their 'safe' construction. Nowhere will you see plate steel. Lotsa sheet rock - no steel.
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