Which gun safe should I get?

[Johnb317]

Look at who makes the lockstep as well.  Liberty uses the good one, and if you want quick access pay more for the keypad.  (wife loves it). 

[JohnVH]

the trackers have a relocker, or so they told me anyway, and they are in South Washington

[jaymark6655]

Liberty x2  Those things are awesome and have one of the best fire ratings I have seen, 2.5 hours.  Check out their torture test online.

[Snopczynski]

My personal recommendation is to stick with a manual dial combination lock. Electronic locks fail a lot more (even the good UL listed Group 1 locks). If you practice with a dial lock, you can open it in under 10 seconds.

Usually I only recommend electronic locks if you have bad eye sight, can't hold a steady hand, or have to access the safe several times a day.

The dials are a lot more reliable, and have way better longevity.

Liberty actually is no where near the most secure gun safes on the market. They do make a great product, but there are some other comapnies that go even more extreme with security and fire protection.

[Snopczynski]

the trackers have a relocker, or so they told me anyway, and they are in South Washington

They distribute out of south washington, but the safes are made in China. I am not a fan.

[FishEKat]

I swung by NW Safes today and looked at some Liberty's (Fatboys and Colonial and Franklin). I was also impressed with the Superior safes.

[Snopczynski]

Did you buy a safe?

[JohnVH]

damn near everything is made in china, or made there and assembled here, so it makes no difference.

Looked at the winchester ones at Daves today, everything I seen was fully welded, but I didnt rip the interior out, this is just the visible welds and the door

[Snopczynski]

Almost everything in the standard gun safe lines are usually made in the USA. It makes a huge difference as you will see below.

You can't tell how the box is welded from the outside, unless you bang on the seams of the safe with a hammer and see if it is continuous welded or not.  They bondo the seams on the safe and paint it, so it looks like it is sealed off and continuous welded.

There is a picture of a pried open winchester below that was actually pried open standing up still. It has 4 sided locking bolt coverage too.

Here is the Tack welds on a Winchester Silverado 7240. This safe was dropped from a crane 100ft. The door broke off, and the body split apart at the seams. I circled the tack welds in red.




Here is a Liberty Franklin 35 dropped from the same Crane, the same distance. Shows you how strong the body welding is.



More beat open, and pried open safes. Also guns out of 30, and 45 minute rated safes that have gone through a house fire.

[Snopczynski]

Now good safes that were rated 60 minutes or higher for fire that have gone through tests or a house fire.

[FishEKat]

I haven't bought one yet. I like to take my time and research things like this; it's a lot of dough to be dropping down and I need to feel good about it. And I have to get the wife to understand that this purchase is for the good of the family. That being said, I do like the liberty and the superior so far. Someone recomended the Gruffunder which looks nice, what is the price point on those?

[Snopczynski]

The smallest lightest build one is $5,700.00

The Jack Daniels Safe in the Showroom at NW Safe was a Graffunder.

The research should be done in the safe store. Was there anyone there that walked you through everything?

[FishEKat]

There was a lady named Karen I believe, that walked me through some of the safes. She was also helping another couple as well so we had limited time. It was helpful none the less to actually see the safes. There was a Fatboy for $1399 and a Superior Master for $1699 that seemed likely to fit the bill for what I need and afford.

[Snopczynski]

That was the Fatboy Jr.

The Fatboy was in there as well, but they run $2k plus.

[Wacenturion]

I too bought my Browning safe from these guys http://nwsafe.com/  Agree...great service, good pricing.  Personally if I bought again, I wouldn't even think about going anywhere else.

Mine is a Browning Prestige 35.  What I really like about the Browning safes is the ability to put 10 guns without scopes on the door.  Makes a big difference.  Here a photo of the Prestige model.