memilanuk
Gold $$ Contributor
For those of you flying to matches such as the BSWN, USA FCNC, DCRA FCNC, SOA, Sinclair East Coast Fullbore, etc....
Me, personally, I find lugging my gun back and forth from the hotel to the range in a hard case to be a PITA - my gun has to be partially disassembled (remove the buttplate) to fit in my full sized hard case. Packing a normal padded soft case takes up a lot of valuable space and weight in my checked luggage. Sometimes a person can arrange to borrow a soft case from someone local, or someone who is driving - many times we have to ship some or all of our ammo ahead, so that makes a certain amount of sense... except those folks often run out of soft cases to lend out pretty quickly.
There is another option out there... John Homatas of Prone2Success makes some pretty nice long gun cases... and he also makes, on a limited on-demand basis, some ones that are *un-padded*. They have all the normal features, but they fold up to about the size of denim jeans in your checked luggage, and weigh only a fraction of what the normal padded version does. Its not what I'd recommend for day-to-day banging around @ the local public range, but for those of us who travel via air to some of the bigger matches, it works *great*.
If this sounds like something you would be interested in, go to John's website, http://www.prone2success.com/ and let him know. He normally only makes them every so often as the demand isn't high - usually right before a Palma or F-Class World cycle - but I honestly don't think a lot of people even know they are an option at all. I want another one - my last one got lent out @ the 2013 FCWC and never found its way back to me - but he needs a few more orders to make a run.
Me, personally, I find lugging my gun back and forth from the hotel to the range in a hard case to be a PITA - my gun has to be partially disassembled (remove the buttplate) to fit in my full sized hard case. Packing a normal padded soft case takes up a lot of valuable space and weight in my checked luggage. Sometimes a person can arrange to borrow a soft case from someone local, or someone who is driving - many times we have to ship some or all of our ammo ahead, so that makes a certain amount of sense... except those folks often run out of soft cases to lend out pretty quickly.
There is another option out there... John Homatas of Prone2Success makes some pretty nice long gun cases... and he also makes, on a limited on-demand basis, some ones that are *un-padded*. They have all the normal features, but they fold up to about the size of denim jeans in your checked luggage, and weigh only a fraction of what the normal padded version does. Its not what I'd recommend for day-to-day banging around @ the local public range, but for those of us who travel via air to some of the bigger matches, it works *great*.
If this sounds like something you would be interested in, go to John's website, http://www.prone2success.com/ and let him know. He normally only makes them every so often as the demand isn't high - usually right before a Palma or F-Class World cycle - but I honestly don't think a lot of people even know they are an option at all. I want another one - my last one got lent out @ the 2013 FCWC and never found its way back to me - but he needs a few more orders to make a run.
