Gun storage for three days in soft case in car?

[Doc7]

I know that a soft case is considered a way to cause rust on firearms. Is this going to be true even in a 3 day period? I have an interstate move coming up and there will be 72 hours from leaving old home to getting to new home, during which I will have everything locked in a safe, in a locked pickup truck bed, parked in a safe location nowhere near a city street.

Will the soft cases cause rust this quickly or is that a long term storage problem? I will rub RIG over everything external, anything special about internals/bores beyond my normal storage of a light oil layer?

 

[CLP]

It'll be fine.

 

[Hillbillyz]

My dad stored the three long guns he owned in the attic in cases. They were lightly oiled, and never had any rust on them.

 

[moewadle]

They will be fine

Just rub them down with an oily rag and you are set. No problem.

 

[Arkansas Paul]

I wouldn't do it as a long term solution, but 3 days aint gonna hurt anything.

 

[USAF_Vet]

I've kept a shotgun in the truck since February, stored in nothing but a silicone gun sock, haven't seen a spot of rust on it. Its been through subfreezing dry temps to hot and humid, like today.

I check it once a week, lightly oil it if needed, cycle the action, and slip it back in the sock and back into the truck.

 

[bigfatdave]

It'll be fine.
Oil with something thicker than average, place in gun sock if you have one, case up.

 

[MagnunJoe]

I leave my Glock 19 in my locked car safe for 6 months at a time in the hot florida heat and humidity and she always goes bang at the range.

 

[Deltaboy1984]

Lube and go .

 

[19-3Ben]

I left a Mosin in the trunk of my car in a soft case after being sprayed with Eezox for a year and a half before deciding i didn't like the idea of a "trunk gun."

Not a spot of rust. That's here in CT where our weather goes from negative numbers in winter to 100F in the summer with high humidity.

 

[BCRider]

It's not the case, it's the moisture that the case can hold in when conditions to produce condensation are right.

But a car is like a greenhouse. It'll seldom be cooler than the outside so it'll seldom produce high humidity levels. And on those rainy days when it is humid the humidity is soon driven out by a return to the "greenhouse" conditions.

So all in all don't worry about it.

 

[RustyShackelford]

Case by case basis.....

Get it?
As noted, if you coat the firearm with a light amount of a well made CLP; Frog-Lube, Ballistol, Weaponshield, Rand CLP, etc or use a good bag/case like Bore-Store, you should be okay.

Id advise against the 5.11 Tactical DE pistol case. This is the "advanced" pistol case by 5.11 .
I bought a new one for my Glock 21 .45acp generation 04 & plan to return it to www.policehq.com . I have a black 5.11 PuSH bag which works well but this pistol case is sub-standard.
5.11 Tactical states it contains a "magnet" to hold the weapon or small parts on the gun range. This feature is only about 0.5" long.
The nylon material neither protects the firearm surface from scuffs/damage or holds it securely in place.
The designers only added one/01 handle too.
This makes the case easy to drop(when loaded) & awkward to carry. Seriously, didn't 5.11 Tactical T&E this case?
God forbid, you'd need to snatch your handgun quickly in a serious critical incident only to open the case & find it all twisted around.

On a school grade system Id give the 5.11 Tactical DE pistol case a: D-. Plus the case itself is small so anything with a 5"/6"/7" barrel or a few magazines won't fit. :banghead:

Rusty S