Safe size question

[bigpondonly]

I'm looking for a quality safe for my gear. 3 AR's, 2 .22's, 2 shotguns, 6 handguns. I'm may be adding 1, maybe 2 more long guns. Any of you guys have experience with this Liberty safe and its volume? I'd like to keep all the long guns on one side, so as to retain the storage on the other. Should I just bite the bullet and get the 24 gun safe?http://www.westcoastsafes.com/libert...jqbib0bhtsr9e3

Thanks
Dave

[VictorFranko]

I'm not familiar with that particular safe, but buy larger than you think you'll need. It will fill up quickly.
Besides guns, I keep all smaller items of value (coins, cash, jewelry, cameras passports, insurance papers, etc.) in the safe. Doing this served me well when my house was burglarized last March, as the BG's got very little.

[CHIEFone]

i agree with victor.
id even say to go double the size you think you need.

[SonofWWIIDI]

I'm not familiar with that particular safe, but buy larger than you think you'll need. It will fill up quickly.
Besides guns, I keep all smaller items of value (coins, cash, jewelry, cameras passports, insurance papers, etc.) in the safe. Doing this served me well when my house was burglarized last March, as the BG's got very little.

^^This!!!

[CNC_Apps_Guy]

I got a Cannon CA23 and I wish I would have gone up one or two sizes. Wifey about had a coronary with this one "what do you need a 'huge' safe like that for anyway?". Once I put my guns an valuables in it... It was like "oh".

[glockman19]

I'm not familiar with that particular safe, but buy larger than you think you'll need. It will fill up quickly.
Besides guns, I keep all smaller items of value (coins, cash, jewelry, cameras passports, insurance papers, etc.) in the safe. Doing this served me well when my house was burglarized last March, as the BG's got very little.

I agree...Get the largest you can afford and have room for. They fill up quickly.

[1Snowball]

You can always grown into your safe. Get the biggest one you can afford. That being said when they say it's a "24" gun safe it's more like a 12 gun safe.

[Simi-Surfer]

I would double your expected needs at a minimum.

[mountainmark]

i bought a Voyager 20 from Liberty, advertised as a 22 gun safe. i only have 6 long guns, various handguns and its a tight fit with the other things in there. Mine works for now, but i'll grow out of it in a few years....go as big as you can.

[REDdawn6]

http://www.dunhamssports.com/products/cannon-safari-48-gun-safe/

[Khromo]

"18 long gun capacity" means "maybe 15 skinny shotguns or lever actions with no scopes, but they will be pretty much squashed together in there."

AR's, scoped rifles, anything bigger than a slim gun with no scope mounted will take up two of the advertised capacity. You've just about used the entire long gun capacity of that safe already, meaning both sides.

This is one time where the "always do this" rule is absolutely right. Buy at least one size up, use the advertised capacity as a guideline after you divide it by two!

I wound up having to buy two, which worked out okay because after I bolted them together they make a very formidable load to try to drag out of the house.

The bigger safe, all things being equal, is much more secure for this reason. Crooks like to roll the safe out the door and take it to a secure location to get it open.

[SkyHawk]

Another vote for buying much larger than you currently think you'll need...

[Sabesimpson]

I bought a safe that I thought would be a perfect size, I thought it was at least 2x bigger then I needed. Boy was I wrong! When I bought I should have bought 6-10x bigger then I "thought" I would need. Btw my safe is a "34" gun safe suposedly. And trust me I don't have 34 guns not even close.

[JDay]

i agree with victor.
id even say to go double the size you think you need.

And double that again because you will fill it faster than you think.

[dyson]

Get a Sturdy safe made in CA.