What's this hole in my gun safe?
Hi again. I posted recently about my gun safe that won't open. Thanks again for your help with that.
Several of you suggested that the internal unlocker may have been triggered and that it will need drilling for an external unlocker. I've contacted a local lock company but their safe specialist is on vacation for about a week. While moving the safe away from the wall to take some pictures of it for an estimate of the work necessary, I noticed the safe has a 1" hole in the back, near the floor. The hole is large enough I could take a flash picture through it with my iPhone. I wouldn't guess this would have anything to do with an unlocking done in the past, right? Any idea why it's there or if it's of any use? (I used the .5 wide angle setting on the second picture.)
Posted Nov 28, 2025, 5:41 PM UTC