I watched some airline folks push gun cases and other long cases off the conveyor belt about waist high into a pile on the tarmac then drive around with the cart picking them up last at Vegas. Buy the best case you can afford. When flying back from the winter custom gunmaker show in Reno the TSA gal reset the combination TSA locks and had to get a supervisor to unlock them. Then the airline lost the case with two rifles for a couple of days. I'm about done flying with guns.

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