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Originally Posted by Phillip Carr
I have a dozen cases I have accumulated over the years. My favorite case and the one I use when I take a gun out hunting is a case I had made a number of years ago.
It was designed to hold a shotgun whether it was m 410 or an 8 gauge. A thin saddle leather lined with a inner finished leather glued and sewed together. ( a unfinished leather ) will hold dirt and will mar the finish. No sheep skin or other fabrics that hold moisture.
Heavy duty nylon lariat rope covered with leather for handles. Two leather straps secured with brass buckles to close the flap. It has served me well.
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That quail on the flap is a wonderful touch!
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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