How To Break Into A Stack On Gun Safe?

This article will see how to break into a Stack-on gun safe if you have lost the keys. We will look at different options and see how you can open the gun safe without a combination or key.

Stack-on is a reliable brand that offers some of the best gun safes in the industry. They provide different gun safes within your budget and offer some of the best lockings that keep your gun protected from unauthorized use.

They offer a range of long-range gun safes, personal safes, home defense safes, portable safes, and security cabinets. Each category contains different types of locking systems.

The stack on gun safes features digital, electronic, combination, and key locks depending on the types of security their customers prefer.

How To Break Into Stack-on Gun Safe?

It is very common to forget the combination code or lose the keys. Even when you remember the code, the locks may stop working.

That does not mean you cannot access your possessions. You can break into the safe to get your gun and other essentials, but that is not very easy.

Breaking into the gun safe is not very easy, but here is how you can break into the gun safe.

Breaking into the gun should be your last resort, and you should try different other methods to try to open the gun safe.

Here are a few methods that you can try:

Use The Backup Key

Most of the key locks come with two keys to use in an emergency. Even if you have lost the key, you can use the other key to open the safe.

Try to find the backup key if you have lost the keys. Check all the possible places where you may have put the keys.

Even the combination locks come with the override key to use the key to change a dial’s position or open the lock.

Factory Code

Even if you fail to open the combination lock with the override key, you can look for the factory code to open the combination code.

Look into the papers or a card that comes with the gun safe. If you fail to find the factory code, you can contact the manufacturers and ask them for the factory code.

Call A Locksmith

If you can’t find the backup key or the overriding keys and the gun safe remain locked, you can look for a locksmith nearby.

We recommend you contact a professional locksmith. If you have a warranty on the gun safe, you can claim the repair.

However, if the warranty does not cover the lock opening, you can contact a professional locksmith. 

Pry Opening The Stack-on Guns Safe

burglar opening a gun safe

If all of the above options are not working and you cannot contact the locksmith, you should try to pry open the gun safe.

Pry opening the gun safe is not very easy. You need secure tools or a hard rod to force opening the gun safe.

If you are breaking open the gun safe, you can damage the safe or its lock permanently.

The gun safes are made secure with high-quality steel, and they come with very secure lock systems that are not easy to open.

You can try to force open the gun safe if you are ready to bear the loss of your precious gun safe.

Use Of Metal Rod

The first method of breaking into a stack on a gun safe is through a metal rod. You need a secure metal rod that is strong enough to break the lock of your gun safe.

Push the iron rode inside the bolt and try to force open it to the outer side. It may need a lot of power and exertion. Be careful, as you can injure yourself while doing so.

Use Of Hammer

Many people use a hammer to force open the gun safe. With the hammer’s repeated blows, you can loosen and release the anchors that hold the gun lock in its place.

Again, the method is very dangerous, and you can injure yourself or damage the gun safe with repeated hammering.

Use Of Drill

If you fail to open the gun safe with a hammer or iron rod, try a drill. Power drills can be used for breaking into the Stack-On gun safes.

Try to disconnect the locking rodes with the door so you can open the door.

To open the lock with a drill, you need to drill into the lock body. Before you drill the lock, you may need to drill into the safe’s outer steel door.

You need only one small hole inside the door to open the lock of the gun safe. With the hole, you can unlock the Stack-on gun safe from inside.

Once the gun safe is opened, you can repair the safe by filling the hole. It may not be as simple as it sounds, but it can be done, and you might need to buy a new gun safe for your gun.

Too much drilling can render the safe useless very easily.

Final Words

Breaking into the Stack-on gun safe is as difficult as any other safe. Safes are built with heavy-duty material that is actually built to resist pry opening. So breaking into the gun safe can be very difficult.

One should avoid breaking into the gun safe as much as one can. It can ruin your gun safe and damage it beyond repair.

But still, at times, it becomes imperative to break into the gun safe. Especially when you have lost the keys or any other method of opening the gun safe and you need to open the safe in an emergency.

If you don’t have an emergency, you can wait for the locksmith or contact the Stack-on customer services that can guide you with different options of opening the gun safe.

Breaking into the gun safe with a rod, hammer, or drill should be your last resort when no other way of opening the safe is working.

Hi, my name is Robert Blair. I’m the chief editor of Best Safes Ever. Again I'm a home and gun safe expert in New Jersey. I worked under champion safecracker Jeff Sitar for many years and learned practically a lot about safes and how to crack them. I am still examining and researching daily different kinds of safes to help our clients as a physical security specialist.