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Safe recommendations
- Thread starter TacticalMountaineer
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Well, in that case, you've got a real SAFE, not a "Residential Security Container", which is what most gun safes (even the good ones) are.
Even with gun safes though, weight is a pretty good indicator. That big 64 gun Cannon that Tractor Supply sells is only about 550 lbs. I messed with one in the store and you can rock it around, almost like a really big refrigerator. I have a much smaller 20 year-old Liberty that weighs in at 700 and and a comparably sized Liberty Lincoln that is nearly 1,200 lbs.
I thought that was horizontal stripes...
I heard white paint adds 20lbs
You are looking at 2000 dollar plus safes. I mentioned that in my post. I didn't get a 64 gun safe. It looked like mine but mine is a 24 gun safe. It's no where near a 64 gun safe. It's a decent safe and for it's size it's quite substantial. You are talking about very expensive safes and I am not. If the steel on my safe was real thin it would't weigh 600 lbs. and the lock bars are about 2 inches in diameter. Short of going around the PIN pad which I am sure there are people can do that in a matter of seconds it would take a blow torch and about 20 minutes to cut a hole in the side of mine big enough to take guns out of. Lets compare apples to apples and not say a 1,000 dollar safe is anywhere near the safe that cost 2,000-7,000 safe is. That's not what I said at all.
You pay for all that top tier stuff and you pay big for that. No argument here.
I was talking about the safe between the stores mentioned are made by the same places. Some are marked up and you have to catch them on sale.
Adventure Outdoor safes are made by Rhino/ Bighorn Safes right here in the good old USA. If I am not mistaken I saw a Browning logo in the Rhino/Bighorn website.
I was assuming that you were comparing yours to the OP's linked Academy ad for the Cannon. If you got a safe in the "25 gun" size range that weighs 600 lbs, then it might be decent. I don't know.
Your words. Yes, some manufacturers sell their lower tier, often imported safes to big box stores to be resold under store brand names. There's more to the story though. My point is, you're NOT going to get comparable quality to, say, a Liberty Franklin or higher, at a lower price by going with a rebranded budget safe from a big box store. The above quote seems to indicate that you can.
Yes, Rhino makes a decent safe. Yes, their top tier safes are U.S. made. They used to make the Bighorn series, which was imported and sold through several big box stores, including Costco, Cabela's and Bass Pro. The Bighorn series was replaced by the Kodiak series, which is now Rhino's budget line. Also imported. If you got a 25 gun safe for $600, I'd be willing to bet that it is a Bighorn or Kodiak (depending on when you bought it) and NOT a Rhino.
