Gun case

[doubleh]

I recently traded a pistol for a rifle and needed a case to fit it. I climbed up in the top of the garage to see if I had one stored up there and sure enough, I did. It was one I bought for my very first good deer rifle, a 30-06. It is outdated in that it isn't some type of cloth material but is made from the hide of nauga's which have apparently been hunted to extinction since you never see anything made from naugahide anymore. It's a nice medium brown color with a heavy duty rubber protector at the muzzle end and reinforced along it's entire length where it has a carrying handle instead of a strap to sling it over your shoulder or two straps to wear it like a backpack. It's also lined with a nice synthetic sheep's skin and that type of sheep must be in very short supply now because you don't see their skin used anymore either. Altogether an old school case that is in really good shape and should protect this new rifle just as well as it has the old one.

 

[lightman]

Theres nothing wrong with older gun cases. A good one is still good and a cheap one, well its still a cheap one. You might invest in a can of Silicon spray for the zipper. A lot of newer ones have all kinds of tacit-cool and mostly useless straps, buckles, ect that add cost.

 

[doubleh]

The zipper still works great. If it ever starts sticking i will just rub it with a candle, a very old trick to make zippers work again.

 

[Riomouse911]

Many of the free-range upholstery critters of our youth have gone the way of the passenger pigeon; the Nauga, the Corinthian cattle used in Chrysler vehicles, and even the rare Landau’s used for vehicle roofs were last seen prior to 2000 (A relative of the Nauga).

Some of my cases started cracking where the rubber muzzle cap met the nauga so I had to scrap them. I think I still have 2-3 more up on the shelf, but they rarely get used anymore.

Stay safe.

 

[Bazoo]

Sounds pretty cool to me. I'd love to see some pictures of it, and of the new rifle for that matter. Thanks for sharing your story.

 

[doubleh]

Sorry but no picture. I am apparently illiterate in windows 11. I take a picture, choose where it downloads to, and then windows puts it where ever it wants.. I find some of them in one place, some in another, more in another and some nowhere at all. I grew tired of the frustration and gave up on posting pictures.

 

[CapnMac]

Sorry but no picture. I am apparently illiterate in windows 11.

It may help to turn "on" file extensions, which are hidden by default in Win11.
https://fileinfo.com/help/windows_11_show_file_extensions
You have to open file explorer, then click the folder then go to View, and check the "Show File extensions" option.

Images should then be searchable by their extension, which is going to be jpg, png, or raw, most typically.

Win 11 is ugly about being consistent across folders, and Large (or Extra Large) Icons are not always Image Previews.

As I deal with graphics and photographs on a frequent basis, one of my go-tos is IrfanView, which is a free download that has a Thumbnail feature which will let you preview entire file folders visually, if image files are in that folder. (Irfanview is handy for having a suite of edit tools in case cropping, resizing, or format changing is wanted.)

My other "dodge" is to click on the headers for Type or Date, to re-order the file display. You can get Most Recent first (or last), or segregate by type, all of which can be simpler than sorting through all of the "230422-nnnn" files in a given folder.)

 

[doubleh]

Thanks, but you are basically speaking Greek to an analog geezer that forgets thing easily. Go build or repair something made from wood or metal? Sure. Make a computer do much more then turn on. Forget it. My son that has been a computer geek for many a year could easily do this but I won't bother him every time I want to post a picture. I suppose I could write down the process so I could refer back to it every time but I really don't want to make that effort. Maybe I should just get him to install windows 10 (if it will work) as I never had a problem with it.

 

[Zebraranger]

I'm a huge believer in sheepskin & Sherpa lined gun cases. Four years ago I had the opportunity to acquire a unfired 2.5" Colt Python from my sister in law. It was her Dads gun, she inherited his firearms when he passed away. The amazing part of the story is that he kept this particular pistol not in his safe with his other firearms, but in a bedroom dresser drawer stored inside this Naugahyde Sherpa lined pistol case for almost 40 years. When I first saw it, I was shocked to see that it still looked brand new and as fresh as it left the factory, no signs of any oil on the gun or the lining at all. It came with the pistol case, original bill of sale, receipt and all paperwork from a local gun store that had gone out of business many years ago.

I myself personally believe in open air storage in the safe with guns in a rack with minimal contact points, since this is how I've successfully stored my guns for many years without issue. But, since it did so well for decades in this vintage case, thats how I continue to store it to this day in the safe.

I've since looked for a couple of more of these vintage Naugahyde Sherpa lined gun cases, they're getting hard to find. Every once in a while a nice one will pop up on Ebay. But when the do show up, most of the time they dont refer to it as Naugahyde, they describe it as Faux leather. There also seem to be more nice vintage Sheepskin & Sherpa lined rifle cases out there than pistol cases.

 

[sparkyv]

LOL!

is made from the hide of nauga's which have apparently been hunted to extinction since you never see anything made from naugahide anymore