Thread: Help needed regarding a Gun Safe....

A friend of mine purchased a medium sized gunsafe from Hunting & Fishing a few years back. The safe had a single key to unlock the main door and a second key to open the small door inside for ammunition/bolt storage. The safe was marked with the words Hunting & Fishing and had a stylized pic of a Stags head on the door. It is not one of the current ones sold by H&F and went out of production about 8-9 yrs ago.

What I need is a pic of the inside of the main door showing the following.......Does the safe door have a second 'skin' of sheetmetal over the whole door on the inside, a small sheetmetal covering over the lock or is there no covering at all.

Reason I ask is that he fell into the trap of hiding his keys in a 'safe' place in a hurry about 2 years back when his wife went into hospital urgently and now cant find them. He is 76 and partially disabled and hasnt used his firearms since the 'Great buyback' following the Christchurch incident.
He lives rural and the 2 quotes I have from locksmiths to gain access into the safe are between $600-$800 and while they were confident they could open it, they both said the safe would be destroyed in the process. He doesnt mind buying a new safe but is damned if he will pay someone that kind of money to open it.

If I knew what the inside of the door looked like, our plan is to use a hole saw/drill bit to either drill around the lock/drill the lock out and hopefully gain access to his firearms.

There is a very small sticker on the safe at the side showing the number of the key and when I approached H&F to get a replacement key 18mths/2 years ago, they told me they no longer had that 'brand' of safe and couldnt get a new key.

Either a pic showing what the inside of the door looks like or any suggestions on how to access the safe without damaging the contents would be appreciated.
I dont mind destroying the safe as I have a spare new compliant safe that I will gift him.

Once he has access I hope to get him out hunting again.