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All my spoons are locked, even the readily accessible ones. A bad guy would be hard pressed removing this safe.
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How about under the bed;)http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1413079222.jpg
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Buck, who makes that and who carries them? I appreciate your help.

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thats a beauty! I have fired that and would need the noise to scare the perp because I have trouble controlling that much bang!

Hey Hads, here is the website. I don't know if anyone sales them retail. The safes are a quality product. I like the idea of having the spoon handy yet locked up. I used allen head bolts to attach to the bed frame as I don't think to many bad guys carry allen head wrenches with them!
The buttons on top are for the combination. Hit the buttons for your combo, turn the knob and the lid springs open. As you can see the spoon is in a holster attached to the lid. There is room in the bottom where I keep another loaded mag.
Let me know if I can be of more help.

FAS1 SAFE, LLC

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There is too much crime today to not be prepared to defend your life or your family! A gun in the right place at the right time can make a huge difference in whether you are a survivor or not.

I'm a bit disturbed by the number of y'all that stow your weapon with a clear chamber. Racking a slide is well within the gray area between gross and fine motor skills. Fine motor skills are non-existent in combat......unless you're a COD super soldier in your mom's basement. When excrement hits the twirly magic thing on the ceiling, you forget stuff....when you forget major stuff, like racking the slide, you get killed.....don't get killed, chamber a round.

A big, big "+1". Under mortal threat, one should endeavor to have as few things to do, as few things to remember as possible. Sometimes I think those highlighting all of the safeguards they have in place care more about appearing "responsible" to the overly critical, politically correct set than they care about their actual ability to defend themselves. Myself, I would rather have the ability to save my life or the lives of my loved ones with a readily accessible firearm than appease the hand-wringing ninnies who would be appalled with how I choose to store that firearm.

Based on the last two posts, I am reconsidering the empty chamber approach. So loaded mag, one in the chamber, safety off, gun decocked (double action) makes sense. Then I don't have to slide the rack, nor do I have to futz with the safety. Just apply a bit more pressure on the trigger than I would with single action. Will also add more double action practice at the range.

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That's exactly how I keep my USP. DA/SA with a decocker is a wonderful thing.

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One of my favorites, have the box and paperwork.

1973 911 T MFI Coupe, Aubergine

Steve

Amen to that. I carry my P938 cocked and locked in a holster. I unlock my electronic safe at night before I go to bed. If something goes bump in the night, I'm grabbing my S&W 686+ revolver due to the sheer simplicity of it. I can imagine that a home invasion is a terrifying thing, the less that you are required to complete or remember, the better your chances of survival.

Contents of my bedside push button safe

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BTW the Detonics is FS.

I've learned to sleep with a .45 (round chambered/safety off) in my left hand and a M629 in my right hand (for bear invasions) but it took decades of practice for me not to conk any bedmates during my sleep :D. Actually my handspoons are locked away (theft would really bother me...don't want 'em "on the street") and a lever action .357 is always handy. I've got a coyote that makes random appearances and that's when I switched over a few years ago. I'm a VERY light sleeper and wide awake if a frog farts...no way is someone going to pose a threat without me having time to react appropriately. Hope I never have to...

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In a small simple hard case next to my cpap machine, with a small bright flash light and my cell phone.http://lifehealthus.com/image/images/112.gif

YOWZA! PM me when you get bored with them. I'll take em off your hands :D

From the man of wealth and taste himself:
In the real world (non-interwebs), all my friends know what I mean when I say Spoon.

Elegantly simple.

-Z

+1 Although most of my defense spoons are conventional DA/SA. I do keep them chambered but with the safety on. Been thinking about keeping my Sig239 in the 'box' as it has a decocker vs. safety. The only issue is it only holds 7 + 1 vs. the S&W 4006 is 11 + 1. But yes, even at the range playing, trying to flip the safety and getting a shot off can prove clumsy let alone in a life threatening situation.

My four poster bed, ankle holster and retrieval system.

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Or have a revolver.....my wake at nite firearm is a hammerless .357. Point and boom.

All we need is enough time to react and defend our family.
So we had wrought iron window and door guards installed.
The doors have dead-bolts.
The way I look at any home entry is just to give me time to grab the revolver from the nightstand, call 911.
I am hoping any attempt to enter the home will make enough noise to wake me &
give me time to defend.

Me like!

I live on a second floor, would like to do something like a floor safe, did you install that flange yourself or was it a factory option?

Totally agree, 99% sure I would be able to rack my 9mm. Unfortunately 99% sure my wife wouldn't.
I have plans to get a small/medium size .357 and load it with .38's for her.

Sorry I'm not quite sure what you mean by flange. I bolted the safe to my bed frame. All I had to do was drill the frame and the side of the safe. It took a bit to get thru the safe wall as it's pretty thick stuff. Use a sharp drill!!

Lots of .38 S&W M638 Airweights on Gunbroker for ~ $400.
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163070 S&W M638 38 da rev 1.875SS fs : Revolvers at GunBroker.com
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I like mine...very easy to shoot and easy to carry because of the shrouded hammer.
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I have a neighbor who didn't believe me about the round in chamber. He went with me to the range, I had him lay his spoon on the bench rest with an empty chamber, I had mine hot in a holster. I called contact and two other friends started rapid fire for distraction. By the time he'd placed his first shot, I'd easily placed three well-timed shots into my target.

As has been mentioned, a good DAO revolver is pretty much as good as it gets for personal/home defense if you're not able to spend significant amounts of time training.
Seriously, obscene amounts of time.

While the .357 can shoot .38s and are cheaper to practice with...ALWAYS follow up with at least two full cylinder loads of .357. The shock to the web in the hand and the audible report are also quite different. Trigger pull on single and double action are also not quite the same.

totally awesome nice quality custom hidden concealment furniture here:


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Something to consider, and why I prefer a .45 auto to magnums...it is absolutely TAME by comparison to the recoil of my big, heavy revolvers...couldn't imagine shooting a .357 in a much smaller, lighter spoon and .38 Special just don't cut it imo. Now a .44 Special does begin with a "4", so that "might" work :D. Nuthin' beats a 12ga if one is in doubt imo....

I don't own guns (nothing against them; just don't own one). I do have a katana sitting in the corner next to my bed, within arms' reach. And a broadsword hanging on the wall going out of the room. I might be at a disadvantage going against an intruder, but at least I know none of my kids will be hit by an errant round fired by me.

Looking at this:
Hornady Manufacturing Company :: Security Products :: RAPiD™ Safe & Accessories :: RAPiD™ Safe

Seems like a fast access with decent safety. Anyone seen one of these?

Glaser safety rounds. Bang on contact and don't go thru the walls and down the road to maim that poor ethnic child......

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Interesting, Joe Bob.

Curiosity has the better of me...if they don't go through a piece of sheetrock, how effective are they in terms of stopping power? Almost seems akin to salt rock in a shotgun.

Oh, no you didn't just go there! LOL!

So I gotta ask: Cold Steel? ROWR!

Oh they WILL go thru sheetrock. Just that the sheetrock will be rocked HARD. The Glaser will penetrate and the item hit will absorb all the energy and if it is living and breathing it will fall down. Like being hit with a baseball bat as opposed to a thrusting pointy weapon.

The debris just won't continue down the road. Lot's of ballistic reports on the web. Nicknamed as a the "Safety Round".

I don't believe so. This particular one was a gift brought back to me from Japan by a close Army buddy. I had told him it's one of my life's dreams to go to Japan and have a sword made specifically for me. This was not exactly that (obviously), but was still one hell of a gesture. As such, it is my favorite blade, and I have many.

Ok, got it. So, it'll go through the first object hit (panel of sheetrock), but will not go through the next. Correct? That does seem to be good for a home defense round.

Here's my problem with revolvers: take a gun novice who has fired the gun before, but not recently, to the range. Put the gun on the table in front of them, put a silhouette target 15ft away and have them unload as if it were an attacker. I bet the bottom-left corner of that paper will be chewed up real good. The human-shaped solhouette, not so much.

I do agree that a semi-auto is not good without lots of practice to go with it.

I'm pro-shotgun for the above reasons. Of course, there's always the short-stroke argument to that plan. You can't win... unless you're willing to practice a lot.