!!!!!! Bargain pistol cases !!!!!!!!

[Iain K D]

Well, my local Tesco didn't have any but, all this having got me thinking, I had a look in a discount shop and got a rather anonymous looking laptop bag for £6. Padding all round, a large extra pocket on the outside so it should do. The '46 fits in if you put it diagonally across the case, there are a couple of (laptop-size) retaining straps inside so I'll probably need to make up some extra bits of foam padding to go around the gun.

It will certainly be much more convenient to carry for any length of time than the aluminium case.

Derek, to fit a 15.4" laptop seems to be a fairly standard size, and an Izh-53 will also fit in diagonally, if this is any help.

Iain

[Iain K D]

Well, this is what it looks like padded to take the Izh-46:

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/n...Baikal018C.jpg

Solid layer of 1" foam as a base, and then 1" foam cut to hold the pistol. On reflection, a 0.5" base and then 1.5" padding would probably have been better, but the lid is padded and soft enough for it not to be a problem. In practice, the Sizerpac and other plastic box (for spare pellets) go in some small zip-top pockets on the inside of the lid (the spaces at top left and bottom right are only partly for extra storage - mainly I didn't have enough to make the top layer of foam complete except for the gun.

Iain

[Iain K D]

Bought one of these today to have as a spare since they are much more convenient to carry than the aluminium cases, it's actually a little smaller (interior about 27x38cm) but it'll still be handy for other stuff.

Looks nice enough, nice comfortable handle, the only cheap-and-nasty thing about it is the material that all the internal liners and pen/phone pockets are made from, it's got a sort of cheap carrier-bag noise when you crease it.

With the closing-down discount, it was just over £4 in my local Woolies.

Iain