Rubic cubes AKA-gun safes

[armed hiker]

Okay I spent some time in my gun safe tonight (fun time as always) and have decided they must have designed this thing to hold fishing poles not rifles. I cannot imagine being able to fit the number of firearms in the safe they advertise it holds unless they were all about 1" thick.

This is my first safe and though I like it it is kind of confining, before I had no limits on firearms purchases but now there is an implication that everything goes in the box. Well how many safes are you allowed.... lol I think It will be easier to just build myself a mancave that resembles a safe. Of course if I do , I may be forced to start sleeping in there as well.

[armoredman]

If you can afford to build it, securely, a walk in safe is best. My father-in-law, (RIP), had a homemade one that wasn't too bad, just remember the door isn't the weak point in a homemade job - it's the walls and joints..I think.
Only limits on safes is A) how much room you have, and B), how much SWMBO will let you get away with...

[DenStinett]

The Long Gun Set-up in most Commercial Safes is an offset, left - right ? left deal
Like you, I still don?t see how they come-up with their count
I?ve read where some guys are digging under their Garage and building some type of ?Walk-in? Vault

The Basement in the House I have designed holds;
My Shop
A walk-in Vault
And a 15+/- yard Indoor Range
All built from Steel re-enforced Concrete
Now to buy the Property to build it on

[1SOW]

The Basement in the House I have designed holds;

My Shop
A walk-in Vault
And a 15+/- yard Indoor Range
All built from Steel re-enforced Concrete
Now to buy the Property to build it on

We must drink the same 'toddies' before sleep.

Mine, had a Door in the basement wall that opened to a 6'/8' fan-vented culvert buried under the yard (carefully graded) with vents above ground.  Add the electric target trolley and a side supply area.  Target range, storm shelter and ......
Dreams are  .

[Wobbly]

In my dream there were 7 fat cartridges, and 7 skinny cartridges. Oops, wrong dream.   

My dream was somewhat like that, but my vault/man cave/indoor range had a hole in the basement wall connected by 50 feet of 2 foot diameter concrete drainage pipe. This was pipe buried through the yard to a remote man hole. Inside the man hole was a target system and bullet collection system. Also in the man hole was an automatic bullet molding machine, initiated by the weight of scrap introduced into the smelting pot by the bullet reclamation system.

In the top of the connecting pipe was a target trolly fitted with a small cup affair. Every time the trolly returned to the shooting station, it also brought along any bullets that had been produced. When the trolly came all the way back, the bullets were dumped into a waiting reloading machine. The target was then digitally scanned and stored on a computer with the load data.

The shredded target was then reduced to pulp in a slurry, to which a paper making machine was attached. Cut paper exited the machine and was fed into a computer printer.

Everything was going fine until I ran out of primers !! Then I woke up.

[DenStinett]

My dream was somewhat like that, but my vault/man cave/indoor range had a hole in the basement wall connected by 50 feet of 2 foot diameter concrete drainage pipe

This was a reality of my late friend Bill
When he was digging it, he joked that he felt like Danny, the Tunnel King
From the Great Escape, for you younger Guys
Bill used 2 foot Steel Culvert, leveled, then back filled and a ?Beach? Sand Trap
Nothing like a personal, indoor 50 meter Range
Always meant to shoot with Bill at his Home (in the Chicagoland area), but we lost him to Cancer a couple years back

[Trophyhead]

I agree build your own.  I used cinder blocks and the best steel door I could find.  I couldn't afford an actual bank vault/safe type door but that would have been the way to go.   I wrapped the inside and out with 3/4 inch plywood and sheet rocked it.   It looks like a closet.   

Safes are great but any safe can be broken into.   I like to keep it low key and only tell people I trust what I have.  A pitbull dog helps a lot also

Anybody interested in buying a safe watch this video it is highly recommend!

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=ltK-bDbADa8&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DltK-bDbADa8

[armed hiker]

Okay that's settled as soon as I hit the lottery I want to hire you guys!   

  Great Ideas I had not even thought about a buried indoor range, I like the idea of the gun room. Now to start the plans.

A friend of a friend had his father pass away. When they were cleaning out the house they discovered a hidden trap door that led into a secret gun room no one in the family Knew of. It appears the father had himself a decent collection. Good stuff.

[DenStinett]

You gotta love those kinda finds
Sometimes it answers a lot of those "unanswered questions"

[Ross7]

If I only had a basement...

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/build-a-75-foot-target-range-in-your-basement/

[Ritter]

Thank goodness I'm not the only one trying to figure out how to dig a gun cave (I think of it as my Bat Cave) out of my basement.
This is like a 12 step support group. 

[1SOW]

A PRACTICAL combination Shooting Range, Small Supply Storage, Tornado/other shelter, out of a basement would make an interesting theoretical online project.
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