![]() Safes are pre-drilled for the anchor bolts supplied, but you do have to make holes in the lining for them to pass through. Never mind: its external dimensions occupied exactly half the wall area of what I had so there was room for two!Ī bit of internet browsing and a few phone enquiries later and I had agreed a great combined price with Robin at EMA Custom Rifles, who promised to have UK distributors Highland Outdoors send them direct to me from their warehouse just as soon as they had them in stock. So far so good, but even the 24-gun model would clearly not be enough, as its real-world capacity looked to be about 16-20. ![]() Most importantly, the safe locked up with 10 massive chromed bolts and an electric key pad: so no more big bunches of keys to fumble through! Two x 12-bay U-shaped gun racks, and a pair of removable/adjustable shelves for converting one side of the cabinet for storing ammunition, optics or other items completed the storage. The interior is fully-lined with grey carpet and complete with a lockable top compartment with a removable shelf alongside it. The price was attractive, as were the smart black finish, silver logo and chromed 3–spoke door handle. With an SRP of around £930 for a 24-gun model –not cheap, but still several hundred pounds less than others I had seen. Then I came across the Buffalo River Black Diamond gun safes. I reckoned I’d have to take 1/3 to 1/2 off the advertised capacity when calculating what I needed. In some cases this seems to be for skinny and un-scoped equipment rather than a modern clay gun or scoped rifle, let alone any tactical/precision hardware. ![]() Cabinets are typically described as to how many guns the manufacturers think they can hold – 5 or 10 etc. The lesson I took away was just how much one could spend on such a project. A very miss-matched selection too, which made finding the gun I wanted at the time a case of hide & seek! Things had to change, and that meant finding a really big cabinet… or maybe even two! Investigation showed choice was good but I didn’t see what I was looking for: everything seemed either too Spartan or beyond my budget. As my arsenal grew, so did the line of cabinets bolted to the wall. I got my first shotgun in my early teens, and my first cabinet. ![]()
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