Transporting your guns to the range - soft or hard case?

I've been using Blackhawk Discreet Weapons Carry Cases for years for my ARs. They're well made and tough, heck, they're tougher than what I put them through (car trip to the range).
 
I use both, A voodoo drag bag for my AR with the EO tech on it. It has a divider which takes my 14" 870 on the other side. A really good quality drag bag for my bolt gun. They have tons of padding and I don't worry about it at all . I have pelicans for my Scoped M14 with the JAE stock and my AR10 with the scope. The cheap hard cases are ok for some stuff but won't accomodate anything with the big target turrets on the scope. The case puts pressure on the windage knob. The pelicans are good, but they weigh 20 lbs empty, Add my 16lb AR10, some mags, a bipod, pistol, mags for it, and youre looking at 40 pounds Most of the distance shooters that I know use drag bags.
 
Transporting Firearms Safely

Non-restricted firearms

Unload your firearms
Muzzleloaders can be kept loaded when being transported between hunting sites but the firing cap or flint must be removed.

Restricted and prohibited firearms

* Unload the firearms; and
* Attach a secure locking device to the firearms; and
* Lock the firearms in a sturdy, non-transparent container; and
* Remove the bolt or bolt carrier from any automatic firearms (if removable).
* Obtain an Authorization to Transport (call 1 800 731-4000).

From: http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cfp-pcaf/fs-fd/storage-entreposage-eng.htm

Shawn
 
National-Socialist Republic of Quebecistan's CFO made it clear last year that as far as SQ is concerned, soft cases are a no-no for the purpose of transporting restricteds or leaving firearms unattended in a vehicle. Also a no-no if the non-restricted in a soft case doesn't have a lock on it.

Could be that majority of soft cases they see are easily cut through and don't have secure fasteners.
 
Back before Dosko was bought by Plano, hard cases were cheaper. Thankfully Crappy Tire now sells a hard case for only $16.

Plus with the hard cases, they are bigger so you can put a couple of handguns in them and go over to the pistol side when finished shooting your rifle. :)
 
notbsd said:
National-Socialist Republic of Quebecistan's CFO made it clear last year that as far as SQ is concerned, soft cases are a no-no for the purpose of transporting restricteds or leaving firearms unattended in a vehicle. Also a no-no if the non-restricted in a soft case doesn't have a lock on it.
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What?!?! They're just making up their own rules now? That's so F*uct
 
Last spring I was taking a 10/22 in a soft case to the range along with a full hard 4 pistol case. I hit a BAD bump going too fast and gave the trunk quite a whollup. I got to the range and the pistol case had slammed down on the rifle case. on the front sioght. I have trech sights installed (love them BTW) and the fron sight hood wasbent over on one side, requiring mangling to stariaghten out, and finally replacemtn. The tech sights are soft metal, but you get my drift.
I use soft cases for hunting and hard cases for the range.. I have a locking hard case that holds two scoped rifles, I use soft cases for overflow when necessary.
I have an M1 carbine, hence the locking hard case. I have one of the m4s coming too and it has a space reserved...
 
A tr gun (DCRA) takes more abuse than a hunting gun. TR is 300m to 900m and may fire 1000 rounds per year in this country and more in those warmer. Because it has to be carried (no cars allowed) all over the range you don't want to double your weight with a hard case and a soft case with a strap is the way to go. It's not so much to protect the gun but to have an easy way to carry a gun that is not really designed to be carried!

The laws for transporting are fedederal, not provincial, so it applied to QC as well if they like it or not.
 
Ian Robertson said:
A tr gun (DCRA) takes more abuse than a hunting gun. TR is 300m to 900m and may fire 1000 rounds per year in this country and more in those warmer. Because it has to be carried (no cars allowed) all over the range you don't want to double your weight with a hard case and a soft case with a strap is the way to go. It's not so much to protect the gun but to have an easy way to carry a gun that is not really designed to be carried!

The laws for transporting are fedederal, not provincial, so it applied to QC as well if they like it or not.
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Thanks Ian.

That's why there are these to carry guns.

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Tron said:
What?!?! They're just making up their own rules now? That's so F*uct
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*shrug*

Ok, this is how I've heard it from a buddy who happens to live on the other side of the Ontario/QC border:

He was driving to the range last fall, and got stopped off a highway offramp in some sort of alcohol check blitz. SQ was present, so was the military police. He claims that he had an AR-15 in a soft case on the back seat of the car, and that there was a trigger lock on the firearm, and a lock running through the zipper on the soft case. SQ noticed that there was a firearm, demanded to see it and the registration, and once they saw that it's a restricted, they got under impression that the laws for transporting restricteds were broken, since they felt that any soft case can be easily broken into. Only after bringing up the RCMP web site on the iPhone did the problem got resolved, and even then my buddy got told that he should use a hard case from now on. Part of the problem was that my buddy is very much Anglo, and the SQ officer was very much Franco, and there were communication issues all along.

He called his deputy firearms officer at the Surite Quebec after this inquiring, and was told that this is Quebec, we do things differently here, and soft cases are strongly discouraged.

Now, this is a second hand, I could be misremembering things, and my buddy could have omitted facts, so take above with a bucket of salt.
 
The range I belong to is shared by LEO's, Feds, Prov, and municipal, Custom's officers etc.

Verbatim from one prov. officer - "you guys aren't the ones that we go after" "if there is a complete neglect for firearm saftey and transportation laws, you will be fined"

I use the 5.11 soft case. I transport my AR and Pistols. They both will have trigger locks. The 2 compartments they are in have mini locks that are fastened through the eye's of the zippers. There is no issue with any of the LEO's that I frequesntly shoot with at my range.

and yes, I call it my range, because I clean up alot... :)
 
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