I wanted to mention a couple of features of these cases to help Mark sell his.
First, they have closed cell foam in them so you can elevate the barrels of uncased guns and protect them "naked" from damage.
Second, if you slide those extra foam pieces out, you can put rifles, in their gun slips, inside the case. You may find this particularly handy if you find some nice gun cases while traveling and want them to come home with your rifles. Hint.
Third, there are two velcro closing, metal hinged, compartments in the top of the case. What I do to be lean on packing is take my wool socks and put my rifle bolt handles in the socks for padding, then secure them in the lid storage compartments that are quite generous. I also usually put some odd gun spare parts in those cubbies along with a gunsmith screw "leatherman" for emergency repairs and service in the field, plus bore snakes. It works pretty great.
What I have not done yet, but have considered strongly is an interior and exterior makeover. On the exterior, ten minutes with a drill bit would remove every pop rivet on the case to full dismantle it. I thought it would be really neat to use hides on the exterior and then just re-rivet all the hardware back over the top.
On the interior, a friend of mine that is a world class case maker has turned them into best gun cases. Stripping the interior, he used oak, brass, and baize wool felt to create custom fitted compartments for pairs and trios of guns. Looks like a $20,000 custom case, but has the hidden aluminum shell protecting them from serious damage. Doing either the interior or exterior enhancements is surprisingly inexpensive I might add.
I just added up in my head that my three gun case has endured over 350,000 miles on airlines being thrown and abused by baggage handlers on three continents and countless countries. There are light scratches all over the exterior and lots of black rubber burns as it was dragged around on conveyor belts and luggage tractors, but no major dents or damage yet. It's also been in the back of a truck for about 25,000 miles of North American hunts too.
In about 30 different threads I've praised this case as the penultimate safari case. Advice on these cases are here, here, here:
As Gordon-Kruger said, if you fly a European carrier, or depart from an airport in Europe, only your rifle is allowed in your rifle case, nothing else. I use an explorer case, www.explorercases.com
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Has anyone here used the Americase 3 gun safari model? I am thinking of buying one for next trip as I want to take 3 rifles. I know it would be over the 50lb limit but still under 70 lbs. and would have to pay additional baggage. Flying Delta from Atlanta to Johannesburg. Planning on hunting...
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Based on reviews etc. I called Americase for a double rifle takedown case for two rifles. As of January 1 they are no longer manufacturing gun cases. They said their instrument case business is off the charts and gun case sales were low and did not have as much of a margin so they decided to...
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I hope this isn't from anti-pressures, but their website has a banner on the bottom: "in order to better serve our commercial customers...." "...Americase is discontinuing..." "...All on clearance and available on a limited basis." Americase was truly the only "Africa grade" airline case for...
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One word to the wise about any gun case for safari: while you CAN bring scoped guns with you anywhere in these cases, quick detach scope mounts are a really, really good idea so your optics stay in your well-protected carry-on as the baggage handlers throw your rifle case 15' at a go. No case can protect your optics from baggage handlers, politically motivated US baggage handlers being the very worst of all. (without optics, you shave 4-6lbs which keeps it under weight restrictions too)
