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Subject: Locking Case Msg# 1028757

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Stu Wayne

Joined 4/4/2000

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Mark Freburg (Read) Forum Manager

Joined 4/3/2000

For a while, I stacked the empty cases, including their non-gun contents, on a shelf next to my safe with the guns themselves safely locked away. When we moved here, I packed them all back into their original boxes for the move and never unpacked them. I've got enough room in my safe to keep them there in the cases - just barely. I made sure they are well wiped down with RIG and keep the rust-inhibiting paper wrap on them, too, when so equipped.

I, too, keep the "commie state" fired casings in the original box for some dumb reason. It must be the pack-rat in me. Embarassed

I still have the cardboard and Styrofoam boxes that some of my guns came in, too. If the guns ever become collectible, they will add to the value. Anyone collecting KelTec P32s yet? Laugh

Stu

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Right, I've never used it, nor do I use any cases my guns come in--but I don't forget them. They are all stored together where I can put my hands on them immediately, along with every little bit of what I consider detritus that came with the gun and should be included should it ever be resold, but which I would never need or want--cleaning rods, the fired cases from the commie states, etc. I do remove the user manuals as those are all put into a giant three ring binder in vinyl envelopes on a shelf next to my bench. Rarely accessed but there if needed, along with other gun-specific info I've collected over the years.

Sometimes I find myself acccessing the binder when I haven't disassembled a certain gun in 15 years. Laugh The binder actually got started with mimeographed (or xeroxed) disassembly instructions on the various milsurps I collected over the years, as none of them came with disassembly instructions.

But I don't know that I ever used "issue" plastic boxes. As you know of course, in previous times guns came in cardboard boxes, with or mostly without a Stryrofoam liner, and these served poorly for carrying to the range. Several companies made nice plastic cases on the aftermarket, MTM and others, I bought--and still own--some, now several. Well, I think I used to take my first Taurus .38 to the "range" in a paper bag, actually. But the plastic cases came soon. By the time guns came in factory issue boxes, I was long past needing to use them.

You might be interested to know that according to my son, more and more, companies are no longer including plastic cases, but have reverted to cardboard boxes only. I could speculate but I will leave that to others.

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