Now that is an awesome post that I followed from the first post!! Great pics and story movieman!!! I have one coming up and of course it's going to have gold in the safe.... ....great score! Hope there are many more lockers like that to come your way!!!

Thanks lrnoob....doubt I'll see or GET another safe in the next 50 lkrs I view, but hopefully there will be other good lkrs.

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OK, here's the story on the encounter with the owner of the safe lkr.

About an hour after the locksmith left and I had secured the guns in my car, a woman pulls up in a little blue pickup.
"Did you buy this lkr at the auction?, she says.  "That's my stuff!"

Of course I informed her that it used to be her stuff but that now it was "my stuff" !  She did the usual rant about they had no right to sell her stuff, that they hadn't notified her (yeah right!), etc, etc, blah, blah, blah. Then with out another word she burned rubber down the driveway between lkr rows.

About 10 minutes later, two white trucks pull up, each driven by black guys. I only mention their race because of something one of them said a few minutes later.  ALSO, she pulls back up in her blue truck.

The guy says something like, "I understand you bought her lkr and just want to know if you can show some compassion. I don't know how you feel about two big black guys driving up on you like this."  He didn't say it in a threatening manner, but I couldn't help but feel he wanted to get some of that across to me.

Of course I'm totally within my rights and I came back with "What's your relationship to the owner?" He responded they were friends and that she was with them as they worked in their lkr about two rows away.  So I said, "Then she followed you in. She's not supposed to be on the grounds."

He sputtered a bit but continued with the "be compassionate" bit. I informed him that this was my business and the way I made my living and that had to come into it.  He asked how much I paid ! My response was "It doesn't matter whether I paid $50 or $1000 if she wants to buy it back we would have to come to some mutually agreeable figure. All this time she is 3 car lengths away in her truck. The 2nd guy had backed off when I came on confident and he didn't say boo.

Finally she wandered over and we started to talk. Continued in next post.

In the $60.00 unit, I ended up with a like new Lane cedar chest with tag still on it  as well as  bunch of dvds, xbox 360 games and a brand new video game chair.

Here it is with the top open....good looking chest !

Forgot the pics of the shotgun !

Now for the good stuff !

The pistol in the brown case is a S&W model 10. Beautiful condition...there were many bags of dessicant to soak
up any moisture in the air.




The pistol in the S&W blue case is a Colt, Officer's Model Match, .38 for target shooting in competitions.




The shotgun is 12 guage......pretty sweet. All guns in like new condition with no pitting or blems of any kind.
Maybe a little bluing lost on the Model 10 from holstering.

Well, I'm happy....how about you ! Newbies.....remember, I've bought over 355 lkrs in almost 8 years. This is the best set I've gotten and THIS SAFE WAS NOT APPARENT FROM THE DOOR !  It was 10 feet back, wedged against the wall and surrounded on the other sides by furn and boxes. DON'T expect this to happen to you !

Movieman, what was in the safe, should of had that puppy opened by now

Patience JRoss, patience !  OK, it's open !

This is going to be a lengthy story with several parts, so I'll get right to the contents and then post more later about the doings between 1 and 5:30 today my time.

1)  No .357 to go with the ammo I found last night.
2)  No flat semi-auto to go with the holster I found last night
3)  See pics below for what WAS in the safe...text between pics.
4)  The former LKR OWNER  showed up !  Quite a day.



Drilling



Putting scope in to watch tumblers fall.




"scope" which puts light in and allows safe guy to watch tumlers moving.



Moving shaft to move tumblers.

More pics in next post; should make them load a little quicker maybe.

I hear that.  I was just picturing the all inclusive unit...which you may well have gotten.

Yeah, selling guns is one thing...drugs is another. No thanks on that one.

All the elements are "suggesting" good fortune, but reality is most often different; if not for the positioning of the safe and the gun stuff I found outside the safe I would be less hopefull. 

Answers will all be here in the next 4 to 5 hours. It's just about 10 a.m. here now and 1 p.m. appointment coming up.

Gotta go get some work done...starting to get too wrapped up in the potential here.

This unit gets more and more interesting every time I check this thread.  

If you liked the posts on the STORM watch and the SYBIAN device, you'll LOVE this one and the promise it holds.

Here's a pic of three items I found in the same box as the STORM watch.  Hope is increasing for the contents of the safe. Text below picture.


The rounds are .357 (12 of them...two speedloader's worth); the incomplete holster is made for a flat semi-auto and then's there's the gun cleaner.

Odds are getting better (I think) for safe contents to include guns.  

I also found a raggedy-a** vinyl rifle case that looked like it could have held a .22 or such. It was in another box and was all folded up and not even worth $3 as vinyl was torn in a couple of spots, but as an INDICATOR it might be yet another suggestion of guns in the safe. Somebody stop me from being HOPEFULL so I won't be disappointed !

Could be a sybian too, which actually are quite expensive for what they are.

Interesting thought....that a sybian might be in the safe. Probably unlikely, but I never found a love swing in 8 years either, so anything is possible.

here's a pic of a sybian (no model is sitting on it !)



Money wise I'd rather have guns, but if I could get a grand for a sybian I wouldn't turn it down !