[coop]

My wife and I have purchased a few guns in the last year, so I was thinking we should get a safe. So over the last couple of days, I have been searching the net and going to a couple of stores. Today I stopped at a Lowes to see what they had. Found they had a very good price on the Centurion 12, which I think will work, at $399.00. The next size they had was the Centurion 20 at $727.00, and I had just missed a sale, end 2 days ago for $597.00.
Now I have been told to get a bigger safe than what I need, and for us, I think that is important. My wife is a photographer, so we can store her equipment, and then ammo, jewelry and important stuff.

So I got the Centurion 20 and Lowes was nice enough to sell it for the sale price.
http://www.libertysafe.com/safe_centurion.php

 

[99gsspyder]

Nice safe man, I am feeling growing pains with my safe now and am planning on making a upgrade soon.

 

[sfguard]

Yeah, unless you are absolutely sure you will not buy another get a bigger safe than you need. There will always be another gun come up calling to you

 

[__jb]

Very nice!

Sounds like you got a good deal, too...

 

[VolGrad]

Yeah, unless you are absolutely sure you will not buy another get a bigger safe than you need. There will always be another gun come up calling to you

... and you will fill it up with other stuff too ... electronics, heirlooms, documents, etc. You run out of room really quickly, even if you are very organized.

Be sure to get a Golden Rod, a humidistat, and bolt that sucker down.

 

[EdF702]

I recently purchased a gun safe. I've traveled the last 3 weekends and having the safe made it "feel" well, more safe.... We returned Tuesday evening from the most recent trip, did a walk around and all was well, electronics where it was supposed to be, doors intact, until I checked the safe.... we left and forgot to close the safe door! Everything was where we left it, but how dumb was that!

 

[TheLaw]

Glad everything was still there Ed.

On the safe, this is an area that you do not want to skimp on. Trust me. My Father wen with the Stack-On brand, actually purchasing three of them. He came home one day to find one of them torn open, with everything in it gone. This particular safe held most of his handguns, some which were his fathers, 10K in cash, nearly 100 knives, most of which were collectible CASE, jewelry etc. It was not a very good day.

All it took was a screwdriver and some strong arms. The thief actually cut his hand on the metal while tearing it open, and 8 months later was pulled over for DUI, blood was drawn and they matched him to the blood left on my Dad's safe. Not that he had any of the stuff he had stole. It's been long gone.

 

[coop]

Glad everything was still there Ed.

On the safe, this is an area that you do not want to skimp on. Trust me. My Father wen with the Stack-On brand, actually purchasing three of them. He came home one day to find one of them torn open, with everything in it gone. This particular safe held most of his handguns, some which were his fathers, 10K in cash, nearly 100 knives, most of which were collectible CASE, jewelry etc. It was not a very good day.

All it took was a screwdriver and some strong arms. The thief actually cut his hand on the metal while tearing it open, and 8 months later was pulled over for DUI, blood was drawn and they matched him to the blood left on my Dad's safe. Not that he had any of the stuff he had stole. It's been long gone.

Sorry to hear about that.

I am hoping that this safe will be strong enough to hold up. It was close to 500bls and has some large bolts in it.

 

[DWinter]

Sounds like you got a good deal. Nice to see lowes hooked you up on the sale price. I'm in the market myself and didn't realize lowes even carried them.

 

[coop]

Safe is in, need to make some more shelves and cover them.

Looks good sitting in the corner

 

[TheLaw]

Congrats. Bolt it to the floor. Bolt it to the wall. Bolt it to the ceiling if you can. While mine weighed in at about 800 lbs, one dude brought it in so one dude could take it out if I didn't bolt it down!

 

[__jb]

Good information here... I'm in the market for a safe, too... Not sure where to out it though... I have an old fairly small house. Do you all put them out in the open or do you try to hide them?

I have terrazzo floors... Is it possible to bolt a safe down to terrazzo flooring?

 

[sbrenner]

Yeah, unless you are absolutely sure you will not buy another get a bigger safe than you need. There will always be another gun come up calling to you

This above poster is Correct.

 

[GlockNewb]

I'm actually looking at one that I concrete into the floor. Anyone have any experience with this type? Only prob I see is that with most, space in limited...but it sure makes it tough for anyone to carry out on a hand truck etc...

Looking for comments!

 

[GlockNewb]

Maybe this one:
http://www.valuesafes.com/safes/fs-b4.html