LSUTVern

First off earlier posters are right. Buy the largest you can afford and move. Buy rifle rods these greatly increase the number of guns that can be stored. I have two safes because I bought too small the first time. On fire ratings I wouldn't worry too much. Be sure to bolt it down. Try to put it where the side of the door that opens is against a wall (inhibits them using a pry bar to open. Consider getting it in a closet or enclosed space to hinder attacks. If you can't, consider building an enclosure around it and use cement board and drywall to increase fire resistance. If you can get it in a closet you can increase fire resistance with a layer of cement board and additional layers of type x dry wall. Each layer gives a 1 hour fire resistance. Don't put it on the 2nd story unless you absolutely have to. It will fall through as the structure burns down and will break open. Add a normal weatherstrip gasket outside the intumescent fire gasket to resist hot gases entering (the intumescent gasket won't seal until it reaches about 300 degrees F). Don't store any ammo in the safe. It will cook off in the safe and damage the firearms.

Addition - If you do build an enclosure around it you can fire proof stud wall with intumescent paint and use rockwool insulation for even higher protection.

I usually subscribe to the "It's your vehicle do what makes you happy club" but I do find it annoying for idiots in jacked up trucks or ricers with extremely loud exhaust systems that cannot resist constantly blipping the gas pedal just to make noise. I have an older F250 that I use to tow my trailer to move my tractor and materials around. Stock exhaust. We moved into our new house last year. Built on a big piece of land so I wouldn't have to deal with idiot neighbors as much. Across the street and 100 - 150 yd. up the street is the entrance to a small subdivision. There is an idiot living in there with a truck with a large lift on it (approaching monster truck height) with low profile tires (another of my pet peeves) and led lighting underneath and in the rims. I know whenever he enters and exits the subdivision. He is constantly on the throttle just making noise. It's ridiculous. If I lived in the subdivision I probably would have already snapped and put a few rounds right into the engine. Now back to the other pet peeve low profile tires on jacked up trucks, Jeeps or any other 4WD vehicle. Lifting a truck gains you ground clearance and the ability to run larger diameter tires. Both of these are beneficial offroad. Strapping low profile tires onto these vehicles turns a capable offroad vehicle into a mall crawler. Running low profile tires offroad especially if you are airing down is a sure way to damage tires and rims or break a bead loose. I know most 4WD vehicles will never see the woods, but it just annoys me. I am going to refrain from giving my opinion on the so-called Carolina squat as I think it is obvious that you should have a clear view of what's ahead of you when driving. Nuf said.

Killed one 3 - 4 years ago on Kenedy ranch. Shot it with a .308 with 165gr Hornady GMX. Heard all the tough to kill stories from everyone. One shot kill. Fell over where I shot it never got up. I think the reason was everyone hunts them from vehicles but I told the guide I wanted to stalk on foot. Took three days but got a shot at 70 yd. off of shooting sticks. He never knew were there until the bullet hit him. I think shooting them from moving vehicles makes for less than ideal shot placement and you have them fired up and already on the run once you hit them so they don't go down. Just my thoughts from my single experience hunting them so take that with a grain of salt. Meat was very good. Mount came out great. Big animals. Took me and the guide and a winch to get it on the truck even after it was field dressed. Can't be absolutely certain but I think that was how I popped my 2nd bicep tendon. (First one was the result of moving a big bandsaw on a dolly after Katrina.)

So we must have been in the same class. Really liked that Mr.Sluggo was the tour guide and the one size fits all still suit was a ziplock bag.

Look up cytokine storm. The virus caused their healthy stong immune system to kill them.

I shoot nothing but Hornady superperformance 150gr SST's in both my Tikka T3 and Savage model 99 (both .308 WCF). Every deer shot with them is dead. Have never had any issue and terminal ballistics were very good. They haven't always gone down but they don't go far and they all left a blood trail. Last year went after Nilgai swapped to Hornady superperformance 165gr GMX's specifically for that hunt. Everybody was telling me to be ready because they are tough to put down. I was told I would need follow up shots, etc. After stalking for two days shot a bull at about 100 yards. He dropped when hit. Never got back up. Bullet went completely through him. After field dressing he weighed 380 lb. I can only tell you what my experience has been and I have never experienced any failures to fire or issues with terminal ballistics. From the bench the 150gr SST's shoot 1" groups from my Tikka.

Excellent job. Someone finally shining light on the cockroaches :geauxtigers:

Between Richt, The Georgia bulldogs and a puppy?















After 6 weeks the puppy stops whining - BWAHAHAHAHA :spank:


IT"S GAMEDAY - LOUD IS THE ORDER OF DAY :geauxtigers: :geauxtigers: :geauxtigers:

See you all there - Have a great day!