Kentucky Armory Club

I'am about to be in the market for a safe and I would like some advice. $1000 is my budget. I would like something with good size 40 gun maybe, high fire rating, I don't really wont a keypad (heard alot of bad things about keypads going out) The Cannon Scout seems to be what all of the outdoor/gun shops have in my area good or bad?

http://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/produc ... _vc=-10005

This one is usually goes on sale Black Friday for $699.

I went thru this a couple years back. I ended up saving a little more money and went with a liberty. If I was in a hurry, I would have bought a cannon from Tractor Supply.

Don't buy a stack on with the electronic key pad. There are plenty of YouTube videos showing how to open them with a strong magnet.

I'm gonna have to upgrade within the next year. Space is getting too tight in mine. Basically one more rifle will require either a bigger safe or moving ammo out of the one I have..lol

ssracer wrote:I'm gonna have to upgrade within the next year. Space is getting too tight in mine. Basically one more rifle will require either a bigger safe or moving ammo out of the one I have..lol

I bought this a while back, helps a lot with that.
http://www.amazon.com/Gun-Storage-Solut ... +safe+rods

bigelowe wrote:I went thru this a couple years back. I ended up saving a little more money and went with a liberty. If I was in a hurry, I would have bought a cannon from Tractor Supply.

@bigelowe What model Liberty did you get?

@All
I have seen some bad reviews of the Cannon's about the keypad going out about 2 years in and really bad customer service anyone had to deal with this issues on any safe?

HEYOPEY wrote:

bigelowe wrote:I went thru this a couple years back. I ended up saving a little more money and went with a liberty. If I was in a hurry, I would have bought a cannon from Tractor Supply.

@bigelowe What model Liberty did you get?

@All
I have seen some bad reviews of the Cannon's about the keypad going out about 2 years in and really bad customer service anyone had to deal with this issues on any safe?

Got a keypad on mine (Sentry) but I made sure it had a key override just in case.

HEYOPEY wrote:

bigelowe wrote:I went thru this a couple years back. I ended up saving a little more money and went with a liberty. If I was in a hurry, I would have bought a cannon from Tractor Supply.

@bigelowe What model Liberty did you get?

@All
I have seen some bad reviews of the Cannon's about the keypad going out about 2 years in and really bad customer service anyone had to deal with this issues on any safe?

I've had one battery go bad but other than that I've had no problems in three years.

I have the Liberty FatBoy Jr. and like it. Mine has the manual dial-type lock. Bought it for $1000 a few years ago from a local building supply store.

One reason I went with the Liberty over the Cannon (of the same size and style) was due to the greater number of door bolts in the Liberty vs. the Cannon.

Kind of a cool note: the Sargent and Greenleaf Locks corporate U.S. office is in Nicholasville, Ky.

BK

I believe it was the colonial 50. It was the biggest and best I could afford. I also bought the door organizer after I got it home and installed.

I recently purchased the Cannon Scout- great value for the money. Delivered to the door free of charge. Includes the door organizer which saved some $ as well. Outlets, Ethernet, pre drilled to bolt down.

http://m.costco.com/Cannon-Safe-%7c-40- ... 54119.html

I like all the features of the Cannon Scout plus the fact that it is local to me. But reading all the online reviews is really turning me away.

Some are a little off-putting definitely. Saying the steel is too thin, fire rating is too low, etc. I'm happy with it. For the price I couldn't touch that capacity in a Liberty or other comparable safe

I wonder what a good steel door for a closet costs? (yes I know you can hack through wood and drywall but its a pain.

Dave1965 wrote:I wonder what a good steel door for a closet costs? (yes I know you can hack through wood and drywall but its a pain.

Guy I work with is building a house. He's having two cinder block rooms build in the basement. One will be a storm shelter and the other is going to have a vault door installed. I want a walk in gun room...lol

ssracer wrote:

Dave1965 wrote:I wonder what a good steel door for a closet costs? (yes I know you can hack through wood and drywall but its a pain.

Guy I work with is building a house. He's having two cinder block rooms build in the basement. One will be a storm shelter and the other is going to have a vault door installed. I want a walk in gun room...lol

I would love to have a vault built. Would seriously consider it if I ever build a new house.

Gunsmokin wrote:

ssracer wrote:

Dave1965 wrote:I wonder what a good steel door for a closet costs? (yes I know you can hack through wood and drywall but its a pain.

Guy I work with is building a house. He's having two cinder block rooms build in the basement. One will be a storm shelter and the other is going to have a vault door installed. I want a walk in gun room...lol

I would love to have a vault built. Would seriously consider it if I ever build a new house.

When I build, I will have one. Got to sell my current house first.

Niceguy wrote:

Gunsmokin wrote:

ssracer wrote:

Dave1965 wrote:I wonder what a good steel door for a closet costs? (yes I know you can hack through wood and drywall but its a pain.

Guy I work with is building a house. He's having two cinder block rooms build in the basement. One will be a storm shelter and the other is going to have a vault door installed. I want a walk in gun room...lol

I would love to have a vault built. Would seriously consider it if I ever build a new house.

When I build, I will have one. Got to sell my current house first.

If it were me, I'd have 6" poured concrete walls and ceiling with a grid of rebar spaced no more than 6" apart. Have a floor drain for the dehumidifier to drain into. Put conduit inside concrete forms to run electric. And don't forget to put twine in to pull wires. Maybe a 8x10 room would be perfect. Slat wall everywhere. One can dream...

Sounds like a good idea. I'm going to do a big ass pole barn type garage with 1000sq/ft or so living area on some land. Can't wait!

Niceguy wrote:Sounds like a good idea. I'm going to do a big ass pole barn type garage with 1000sq/ft or so living area on some land. Can't wait!

This is WIN!

I have a buddy finishing up basically what I want to do right now. But he's doing it a couple yards behind their house for his mom to live in. Then doing a 1000sq/ft game room above her apartment. I think it's 60 or 80' x 100 or 120". It's pretty good size.

Something like this would be cool.
Or this,

Sorry about the thread jack. Back to safes now.

The guy who welded up my barrel vise , made a strong box about 8 foot square out of boiler plate and a vault door out of 3/4 armor plate and dug out his basement floor and had the box put in the ground and had a new floor poured over the box.
It held most of his more valuable firearms.