Looking for the best gun safe? And how do yall feel about digital safe ?
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Greetings & welcome, ShaunMrBmore! Weāre glad that youāve chosen to join us and hope that you enjoy the community.
As for your question, I am sorry that I do not have any suggestions. In the market for one myself.
Take care & be well
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Welcome I have more then one safe a browning, a brinks, & field and stream they are all digital safes with key backup.
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My safe is a dial lock liberty.
Down side is forgetting your combo and itās not very quick to access.
As for a digital, I had a buddy who forgot to change his battery, didnāt have a key backup, and had to cut his door off to get in!
Buy a bigger safe than you think you need!!!
I bought my little 12 gun when I had just bought my 2nd firearm!
Now it has 22 guns in it! Itās a Tetris game to get a specific weapon out for cleaning or a day at the range!!!
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Brother Shaun,
Welcome to the Fold.
You are right where you are suppose to be.
Alas, I cannot contribute to your question as I
would have outgrown any safe I may have purchased
years ago.
But I will add Willās (?) statement is accurate in āGo Big or Go homeā
when buying a safe. We Gunnerās tend to develop anā¦umā¦
Acquisition Disorder when it comes to purchasing Firearms.
(They tend to multiply all on their own in most Safeāsā'Howād that get there?)
Not Bragging but I have a dedicated Multi-Lock ROOM for my stuff.
A Safe would have taken up valuable room I cannot afford to lose. 
Good Luck on your Quest----āNow what is the weight of an unladed Sparrow?ā
(Choose wisely)
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That is the way to go. The safes that you have you can reliably open in a hurry if under imminent threat without hesitation.
I have heard of problems with opening biometric safes thus, if any liquid on your fingerprints like sweat or blood not recognizing them, and not opening.
Sure they make a great sales pitch being high tech but, like having a āhard wiredā video alarm systems vs. Wi-Fi that can be hacked too easily, āhigh techā may not be all that great.
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What do you mean? Is it the African or European Swallow?
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ShaunMrBmore Welcome to the forum. Weāre glad you found us.
The debate between digital or dial combinations on safe has come under scrutiny recently with a news story coming out about Liberty Safe company providing law enforcement with āmasterā codes to unlock all their digital safes.
Link to that topic is here:
Through my own personal experience with digital and dial combinations, I personally prefer a dial combination. Working in retail (automotive) as I have for the last hundred years, all the store safes were eventually upgraded to digital. Every digital lock does have a āmasterā code preprogrammed in in the event the daily use code is erased or the company loss prevention officer shows up to chastise the store manager. Depending on make of keypad, the āmasterā code may be permanent, unable to be erased. In that event SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE will have your combination. If you register a warranty on your safe SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE will have the address of where that safe is. That information can easily be stolen via a low-level hacker or could be supplied to law enforcement by the company.
Getting back to the low-level hacker, most digital keypads have a port where a cable can be plugged in either on the side of the keypad or if you remove it by the twist and pull method the port may be on the back of the pad. There are programs available where someone can plug into the keypad and retrieve the master code and unlock the safe.
I have a dial lock on my safe. I have the combination and my Wife has the combination. I never registered the warranty on the safe, so the manufacturer doesnāt know where that safe is.
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Right now the bio electric safe screwed down safe on the night stand is wide open. Not for the fear of needing to get in quickly but because I donāt drive and the 9V battery doesnāt have a charge. The battery also powers the spring lock that opens the pop up lid.
Itās the little things that sound cool on paper but once you use it in real life turns out to be a royal pain in the ass. like the 80 something lady did that was recently attacked. Kept her 357 under the pillow and put holes in the attacker. Not telling you to do that but you need to figure out what works for you.
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Welcome to the Community @ShaunMrBmore
Firstā¦ Thereās no āthe bestā. Itās only the one which works for you.
You will get dozens opinionsā¦ but eventually you have to decide what fits you.
I personally use Vaultek, but not because itās fancy and electronicā¦ but because does its job.
Waterproof, fireproof, can be securely attached anywhere in your house or to the car and is very convenient for traveling.
Mine comes with fingerprint reader, electronic 4 button combination and regular key. I donāt trust fingerprint reader, it gives me hard time; button combination sucks from time to timeā¦ but key works each time Iām using it. 
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UH, I donāt know?
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Welcome as you can see you will get a lot of feed back. you need to take a good look at your own life and situation and figure out what will be best for you.
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I have a Kindle. Itās great. Get to change the point size. Read it in a darkened room while my wife is sleeping. Works perfectly MOST of the time. Notice the emphasis on MOST. A digital safe, I feel, is just like my Kindle. It will work MOST of the time. Except the one time you absolutely need it to work. Mechanical locks have been around for centuries. Digital locks not even a half century. Why trust your life and your familyās life to something that is less than a century old?
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I guess no matter what company you go with, I would make sure the digital mechanism is EMP compliant!
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A combination safe can be fast to open for your next visit if you dial your combination in (all but the last number) after closing it. I always leave the dial just a couple of numbers away from the final digit, and I always leave it on the same number to easily tell if it has been tampered with.
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This is generally my method as well, I always leave on 0. If I donāt feel the tension against the dial as I move it to the final digit I know itās been tampered with.
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Not a fan of digital safes.
I prefer a combination with a keyed re-locker, or for a pistol box, a Simplex lock like FAS 1 uses.
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It depends on how much capacity you need. The only thing I can tell you for sure is you do not want one with a digital lock!
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@ShaunMrBmore Welcome to the community! My safe is a combination number dial safe, fire proof, and water proof.
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