other protections?

Hello,


My contents were covered by my home insurance policies with jewelry and replacement riders. One has to be concerned with what the insurance will do for you in case of loss. Proof of ownership is a key point(invoice, bill of sale, etc). Most of my stuff was devalued by the insurance folks for various reasons. I had to have a gunsmith that wrote for Precision Shooting help me on the "value"(technical type letter explaining the replacement cost of the gun) of a custom Sako with a custom stock(borderless checkering); really just bought it for the magnificent stock & worksmanship, but she is gone now, never seen it since. So in my hindsite; try to understand just what your insurance will do in case of a loss. We can get insurance poor and have to use our best judgement at the time and environment.

Hugh has a good point with size, if I would have had more room in the first safe or owned another safe at that time,I would still have that magnificent Sako.


When I store my pistols(always in a safe) I use the $4 zippered gun show cases and stack like cordwood. I use Breakfree on most of the guns. However the nickeled Python's(no breakfree on these) after some storage time in the zippered cases showed a fogginess on the nickel finish . It comes off easily, but I have since utilized an old sock to place the nickled gun in and then place the works in the zippered case. My socks can get close to artillery size The additional sock barrier did away with the fogginess of the nickel during storage. My blued or new manufactured Lugers never have had a problem directly in the zippered case. FWIW


Regards,


Rick W.