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This week we are shifting gears from vintage workhorses to modern accessories. Please remember to keep it clean and pick your favorite of the two below.

Think if you only had the choice of one type of accessory below to protect your double while in transit to an upland, waterfowl or clays "gunfight"! May the best gun accessory win!

Gunfight Friday Round #3 - Modern Trunk Cases

Canvas & Leather vs. Polymers & Foam

Galazan/Jeff's Outfitters/Etc - Canvas & Leather
Most modern canvas and leather gun cases features heavy duty canvas with harness type leather trim, leather corners & combination locks. They also usually have a padded wool or felt interior with accessory compartments for snap caps, oil bottles, etc. Prices vary from brand to brand but you can usually find them anywhere from about $199 to $299.00.




Pelican/Boyt/Plano/Etc - Polymers & Foam
Modern hard gun cases are made of durable polycarbonate or polypropylene plastics. Many include dense polyurethane foam for protection and claim to be "watertight, crushproof, and dustproof". Prices vary quite a bit between brands but you can usually find decent modern hard cases starting at about 75.00. Some name brands are quite a bit more expensive than others and will set you back anywhere from $200.00-400.00.

Polymer and foam can't hold a candle to leather and felt. I'm sure they will both do the job but.......

A vintage double in a Poly box would be like a Shih Tzu (shitzu) on point.

Must admit, I just sent a sxs for restock and it went in poly and foam. All of my shooting is within 2hrs of the house. If I ever get to Maine for Grouse, it will be poly and foam for sure.

I really enjoy the GF Friday.

Bill
Ithaca1

For me personal it would be canvas and leather please.
Although foam and polymer does an excellent job of protecting it is kind of like "my old English shotgun needs the barrels refinished should I have them blued or bead blasted and dura-coated"

Just one old guys thoughts....
Don

Canvas on the way to the range, polymer into the field.

Close or far? For close, nothing makes a fine gun look good like a presentation case (canvas and leather). For Canada or Argentina, its all about protection! That means foam and polymer...Geo

I like the Beretta compact soft cases for convenient travel when simply grabbing a gun from the vault when it does not have a specified hard case that it lives in.

For far, it was John Hall two-gun cases hands down forever & stuck in the center of a US duffel bag w/clothes packed all around it and on the top and bottom as well. FWIW, I used golf club covers on the action ends to further protect them from airline abuse.

Today, I use SKB two gun cases for far travel, just as George says above, but still stick a golf club cover over the action. Does it really provide additional protection? Who knows, but I feel better doing it that way.

I don't buy vintage guns because they are convenient or simple. I buy them because of the esthetic they represent.

I could no more put them in a plastic case than port the barrels.

I have two seriously heavy duty aluminum cases for when airlines are involved. The leather and canvas cases go inside the metal.

For traveling in my truck or car............. Jeff's canvas and leather case. For airline travel there is no contest............. Pelican. BTW, a Pelican looks nothing like the plastic case pictured. Not only is it tougher than the canvas and leather case, it is air and watertight.

SRH

I hunt mostly within a few hours drive from home...so I transport my long guns mostly in Boyt canvas/leather soft cases....although I do have canvas/leather hard cases and the heavy plastic synthetic type, even a nice LOM ,they rarely get used....so middle of the road on this one.....

Simple answer for me. For a street price of around $350 you can get an Americase Custom Compact which is more substantial & looks much nicer IMHO than any polymer case or any made in India ,China or Mexico copy of an English canvas & leather case.