Anyone have a contact for the business in Motueka who imports Fort Knox gun safes?
Well priced and not too far away from me. I would like to have a look at one.
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Anyone have a contact for the business in Motueka who imports Fort Knox gun safes?
Well priced and not too far away from me. I would like to have a look at one.
TBH - price is right, but description is a little shy of what the safe can actually hold.
I bought one, as it's reasonably close to me to - freight wasn't excessive.
3-5 gun version. If you've got sizeable scopes on your rifles, the only way they'll fit (with bit of mucking around to protect the scopes), is
side to side - butt on opposite side of safe to barrel, jammed into the furtherest away barrel support (Omark).
As the Omark s still a WIP, it's at the back. The Annie sits in front, leaning in the opposite direction, barrel wrapped in a rag and resting against the opposite sidewall.
I was hoping to get an Omark 44 target rifle, 6-24 X 56 scope, 22 Annie 1410 M 54 w/4-12 x 44 and a 22 Stirling w/2-7 x 36 into it, using the provided barrel supports.
Ended up putting the 22 Stirling into a secured A class approved, custom built wooden safe I got with the Omark, which had TR open sights.
It appears to me that these safes are designed for Airsoft or shotties or open sighted rifles.
As the depth (F-R) is pretty much the same, I think you'd be disappointed - even with a 5-7 or 10-12 unit gun safe.
The bonus is the locking mechanism on the door of my safe is a two parallel bolt door, at keyhole height, about 20-22mm diameter each.
Safe pretty solid (approx 2.5 MM walls/back, thicker, double skin braced door, and hasn't popped open, even with the good shaking it got during our local bumping around from Kaikoura's earthquake.
Bye the bye, neither did the wooden safe.
Quality is good, price is more than competitive, freight isn't excessive so ahead there.
Sizing - you'll need to decide if the F-R depth will do you - only thing I'm unhappy about.
My 2c of hard earned experience with Fort Knox safes.
Thanks for your thoughts Wally. I have had similar experiences when trying to get 5 scoped rifles into a "5 gun safe"...just won't fit.
Scoped AR15's are even worse; they're so deep when measured from top scope turret to bottom of pistol grip. Couldn't even close the door!
Was thinking of getting one of the bigger,wider safes and placing rifles in against a side wall instead of front-rear.
Don't mind my firearms getting honourable scars from field use but hate the dings caused by an over-crowded safe :(
Not 100% but they look similar to one of mine, can only open the door 2/3 and it makes things even harder getting rifles in and out!
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Originally Posted by 223nut
Forgot to mention limited door opening access - thanks @223nut.
My door opens 90* from closed - so restricted access, as it opens L-R, and makes it hard as I never thought to take this into account when I secured the safe to wall (custom fitted dwangs behind wall panel)/floor :yuush:
generally I have found if you 1/2 the number of guns they say the safe can hole and then deduct one more then thats about what you can comfortably fit ( ie not stacked in like fire wood)
Detachable scopes help