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I am mulling over the layout of the firearms in a new hard gun case, and wanted to see what others had done.
I plan to cut the foam in a case I picked up (sort of a pelican knock off with removable center foam). The case is double rifle case about 53" x 14.5" inside. I scrolled through a very infomative thread elsewhere: http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=3&f=4&t=292695&page=1.
I thought it would be great to start a thread here too for people to show off thier creative storage solutions.
For my layout, the main thing that I am struggling with is that I have an AR with two uppers, a scoped 20" bull barrel upper, and a 16" middy upper with removable carry handle. I use the lower with both uppers about equally, but sort of in phases - when the prairie dogs are particularly active, the 20" upper gets used a lot more, but when I am doing more plinking, the middy upper gets more use.
I am torn between setting up the case to have a seperate cutout for the lower, then each of the uppers, or making a cutout for each upper with the lower attached. With option 2, the assembled rifle with either upper could just go into the case. But, option 2 takes up a lot of real estate in the case that I could use for a handgun or two, a bipod, magazines, etc. Another option is to make a cutout for the assembled rifle with one of the uppers, then a cutout for the other upper without the lower. But then if I use the rifle with the second lower, I have to disassemble it, and reassemble it to the other upper for storage. Anyone that has built a case for an AR that has thoughts one way or another on those options?
Anyway, post up thoughts and pictures if you have them! I am sure there are a lot of creative solutions out there.
I plan to cut the foam in a case I picked up (sort of a pelican knock off with removable center foam). The case is double rifle case about 53" x 14.5" inside. I scrolled through a very infomative thread elsewhere: http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=3&f=4&t=292695&page=1.
I thought it would be great to start a thread here too for people to show off thier creative storage solutions.
For my layout, the main thing that I am struggling with is that I have an AR with two uppers, a scoped 20" bull barrel upper, and a 16" middy upper with removable carry handle. I use the lower with both uppers about equally, but sort of in phases - when the prairie dogs are particularly active, the 20" upper gets used a lot more, but when I am doing more plinking, the middy upper gets more use.
I am torn between setting up the case to have a seperate cutout for the lower, then each of the uppers, or making a cutout for each upper with the lower attached. With option 2, the assembled rifle with either upper could just go into the case. But, option 2 takes up a lot of real estate in the case that I could use for a handgun or two, a bipod, magazines, etc. Another option is to make a cutout for the assembled rifle with one of the uppers, then a cutout for the other upper without the lower. But then if I use the rifle with the second lower, I have to disassemble it, and reassemble it to the other upper for storage. Anyone that has built a case for an AR that has thoughts one way or another on those options?
Anyway, post up thoughts and pictures if you have them! I am sure there are a lot of creative solutions out there.
