This reminds me of when a local guy, building contractor by trade, bought the biggest Browning Safe on the market at the time, from a local gun shop. One late spring Saturday morning he and a couple of his slaves went up and brought the safe back home. W and his buddies couldn't get it in the door. But not to worry--they were a builder and his crew-- so they took down the door and casing and managed to get the safe inside, where they positioned it for good. The combination was hanging on the lock dial. W looked at it, spun the dial, and voila! He opened the big door. After viewing the inside, and reading the enclosed literature, W looked at the card with the combination printed on it and said "Geez! I better put this where I won't lose it". Into the safe it went, along with a few of his trusty deer rifles and a couple of shotguns, and the safe door slammed shut. After waking up to what he'd just done, W put his guys to work at putting his entry door back together, and took a trip to the gun shop. The shopkeeper did get the combination for W, but it involved identity checks, etc. along with the serial number that the store owner did manage to save in his records. A lot of effort not to be repeated! I think W keeps the combination to his safe somewhere else now.