Pachmayr pistol case

[mousegunner]

A freind gave me this box which was given to him but he had no use for it. I've shot .22 bullseye matches a few times but nothing serious. I've been invited to shoot again and may do it and now I have a case.

Anyway the case shows some wear and the end panel covering is gone. I was thinking of recovering this box with new material. I got nothing else to do and this may be a nice little project for me. Of course, I could use as is or pass on to someone else, and eventually, it'll find a good home. Anyhoo, any ideas or suggestions? Thanks for looking.

 

[K22]

Oh boy does that bring back memories of better days! I had one that I totted around for about 30 years, albeit with a carrying strap. When I gave up competitive precision pistol shooting, I sold mine and replaced it with a range bag. It was just too heavy to tote back and forth to the range. But for a competitor, it's the ideal system especially when you mount spotting scope on the inside of the lid.

Unfortunately, I do not have any good suggestions to recover the box. Mine was well worn and what I did was just strip off loose pieces of covering to keep from it peeling off further.

 

[mousegunner]

Loading it with a couple of pistols and assortment accessories and I can see this getting heavy. I use 2 range bags now and comfortably carry what I need. I may just hand it off to a nephew that'll be happy to get it, we'll see.

I could strip it, sand it, stain it and give it a good coat of urethane just thought of this.

 

[Krogen]

Those old boxes are classic! It may not matter, but I will say recovering it degrades its "classic-ness." I'm a regular Bullseye shooter, now called Precision Pistol. The old boxes were good for iron sighted pistols, but those "new fangled scoped pistols" won't generally fit. I use an aluminum Strong Case pistol box. Indeed, with 3 pistols, ammo and a spotting scope the dang this is almost too heavy to lug around.

Those classic boxes have a following. You'd just need to find the right shooter. I applaud you for putting the box to use and for getting your nephew into the sport. Precision Pistol is a challenge and in direct contrast to the current interest in run n' gun with plastic pistols.

 

[MikeT124]

Between the wife and I we have two of them, again from back in our NRA Bullseye days. Still have some of the .22 spare magazines attached to the mag magnet in them, a cheap 20 power spotting scope attached to them too. Brings back good memories looking at them again.

Mike

 

[GotRDid]

The Memories, Indeed!

 

[Tim St Pete Fl]

Hello mousegunner,
Did you want to sell the range box. I am now getting into bullseye here at Wyoming Antelope club Clearwater Fl
Tim

 

[divingin]

I have a non-Pachmayr (I think) 4-gun pistol box that I use regularly. Bought it in the 80's. Finding a scope for it is a PITA; there aren't a whole lot of small medium power spotting scopes available any more (I shoot pistol from 10m to 50 yds, so 25-30x at the high end, and wide enough to get the bull of an air pistol target in view at the low end.) I suppose a cheap variable rifle scope would work if it focuses close enough, but the operative word there would be "cheap".

Mine was, like yours, vinyl covered (though mine was textured black, similar to old vinyl covering on cars.) Vinyl that gets damaged and/or peels gets either contact cemented in place, or removed and the underlying wood spray-painted with rubberized black coating. I'm not concerned with appearance (or I'd come up with a better method.)

On mine, the pistol tray rides in a couple of aluminum channels - easy matter to relocate them for taller guns (though ammo storage underneath would suffer.) Harder, though still doable, is reconfiguring the fingers that pinch the pistols to keep them from immobile in transport.

I will say one thing: As handy as the boxes are, fill them with pistols and a decent supply of ammo, and they get damn heavy.

Anyway, good to see an old box like that. Used to be everywhere, but they're getting to be pretty rare sight on ranges these days.

 

[rlporter507]

I have one like that, a bit better shape, with a jack best, Mike curtis, and
fred Kart in it.

 

[Krogen]

Finding a scope for it is a PITA; there aren't a whole lot of small medium power spotting scopes available any more (I shoot pistol from 10m to 50 yds, so 25-30x at the high end, and wide enough to get the bull of an air pistol target in view at the low end.) I suppose a cheap variable rifle scope would work if it focuses close enough, but the operative word there would be "cheap".

I use a Strong Case aluminum box. The scope is a Hawke. It's small enough to fit below the pistol tray when I flip the scope forward and lose the box cover. Optics quality is good enough to see 22LR at 50 yards. It's not spectacular but does the job.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1536769-REG/hawke_sport_optics_55210_9_27x56_nature_trek_spotting.html