Do you have five, six or even seven barrels for your SRS? Do you have an unholy compulsion to make sure everything you own can be locked in a fitted transport case? Do you have entirely too much time and/or money on your hands? Have you ever wondered what it would take to make a rifle case weigh 120lbs or more? Does "unwieldy" even have a definition in your universe? These and many more questions will be answered on the next episode of, SOAP.
Keep in mind this is not really designed to be a transport case. I mean, I do occasionally drag that heavy bitch to the car and stab it into the back seat of a 2001 Mustang Cobra because it won't fit in the trunk but that's not what it's "for". It's a storage case meant to keep all the bits together. I have a smaller but extremely similar case that I also need to redesign the case foam for that is intended to be my travel/transport case that doesn't hold as much of or the same stuff as this one.
Room for: 1x Desert Tech SRS soft case w/ backpack straps, 1x SRS M2 (this one is cut out for a Steiner M7 mounted in 1.5" rings) including up to a 28" barrel + 2" brake with a bolt and 1x long or short mag installed in the chassis, 8x additional long mags, 8x additional short mags, 4x additional bolts, srs operator maintenance kit, 2x 10rd boxes of Lapua .338LM (or whatever you like such as: FTS camera bits, flip caps, batteries, condoms, soy supplements, personal wand massagers, etc...), PVS-30, almost any bipod you might want, 2x additional 26.5" OAL barrels, 2x additional 28.5" OAL barrels, 2x additional 30.5" OAL barrels, 2x cutouts for Surefire/Kiji weapon lights/heads/bodies (or flip caps/sundries/tampons/etc...), plus 2x of what I call
"tevs" slots. Tevs slots can each take, well, whatever: 1 recoil pad + 3 recoil pad spacers, other combinations of spacers and pads or 1x 20rd box of literally anything up to and including .338LM.
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No. I don't think I'll actually order this setup because I'm down to 5 barrels and likely going down to 4 barrels soon. If you wanted to be able to put 30 grand in a single box though, this might be just the ticket. I did find a few optimizations that I can do to my prior design though. The steps in the barrel cutouts in the last design were fine in the drawing but that didn't translate well for the machines that do the actual cutting so I rejiggered that. The PVS-30 almost never accompanies the rifle and it ended up easier to not have it mounted on the rifle before being put in the case when it was going to join us on the journey. The prior case was only cut 3.5" down leaving 2" of unused depth and I couldn't get the soft case in with everything else. Whoopsie! This configuration uses the soft case as additional topside padding. What I'll probably do for the one I end up ordering is knocking out one of the barrel cutout stacks, reorganizing the cutouts for the short mags and instead of using the soft case as top padding, I may chop the whole top far enough to let me put the soft case under the case foam. We'll see.
Previous layout:
The previous layout, as you can see, was not 100% optimal largely because I didn't have everything on-hand when setting it up and so I had to guesstimate quite a number of dimensions. My prior version also held only 4 spare barrels and a 2-fewer magazines and is near or at 100lbs depending on that day's particular load-out.
