Thread: Rifle hard case - Super Cheap still best value?

Originally Posted by Fee Knicks

If you remove the barreled action from the stock you dont need a case that long.

with a hacksaw you can make the case requirement even shorter :-)

I’m a Pelican convert. Probably other options. They are built to last 100 international flights. I have carted firearms all around the globe in them and although they get battered they never fail. I use the short case for my take downs, and the full size for the non take downs. The larger case takes two rifles depending on scopes.

Put your rifle in a guitar case

Sorted

I picked up a SCA case today.
It's not as well built as some of the high end tough case/tool boxes on the market, but it's surprisingly good.

The foam seems like it's good quality, the latches, handles and wheels are all pretty well built and look like they shouldn't break off on first usage.
The cases is rather large though, almost too big. The case will fit two rifle with big scopes and long barrels really easily.

Here's a picture if a 25.5" barreled Tikka, and there is a tonne of room spare.

I have gone back to a soft sided case for some uses. The SCA case is good but as people have said, its too long to fit across the back seat or boot in a lot of vehicles. Strapped to the roof rack its not exactly out of site.

Originally Posted by johnd

I have gone back to a soft sided case for some uses. The SCA case is good but as people have said, its too long to fit across the back seat or boot in a lot of vehicles. Strapped to the roof rack its not exactly out of site.

It's definitely a really long case.
My Discovery lets me fold down the rear seats individually, and they fold completely flat so it's not going to be an issue.
But if you had a Suzuki Swift and want to carry 3 rifles in these hard cases it might get tricky.

Buy a ute!!!!

Originally Posted by No.3

Buy a ute!!!!

Had a few of them things over the years. Sometimes you develop a taste for other vehicles. I dont think I will be buying another, just to transport a case in. Gets hard to miss all the road cones in a ute as well you must know, living here.

Originally Posted by johnd

Had a few of them things over the years. Sometimes you develop a taste for other vehicles. I dont think I will be buying another, just to transport a case in. Gets hard to miss all the road cones in a ute as well you must know, living here.

Miss all the road cones? Oh, is that something you have to do? I do in the little cars for the obvious reasons, but with the ute and especially with a trailer on it's a neat game to just try to clip the very edge of the cone's base and squirt it into the middle of the next lane. If you get it right you can park the cone in the middle of the lane stopping the flow of traffic and pissing off the TPMS crews no end. Silly bastards used to set the coned lanes up far to narrow, so it was either run the trailer into the crap on the left hand side or take out every cone on the right. Sorry, boys!

I still don't find the cases an issue with the Outlander-sized cars, the Pelican case does fit across the back seat of those and that's a full length 1750.

I initially bought a SCA hardcase but it was way too long to fit across my vehicles in the seats or in the boot so I returned it the next day.
Instead I paid more and bought one of these https://richmondnz.co.nz/product/wea...-sealcase1127/

Just a rebrand of the SCA cases but not as long so it can actually fit in most vehicles.
It will fit two shortish (20" barreled) scoped rifles in it or one longer barreled rifle on an angle.
When I flew to the SI last November for a tahr hunt I fit my rifle, suppressor, bipod, 2 x trekking poles and camera tripod in it for the flight.