Discreet rifle bag

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Aglifter
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Discreet rifle bag

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As an FYI, a manduka yoga may bag for an extra tall mat, will hold a 16" barreled AR w optic, and a collapsible stock, if you put the stock to its smallest setting.

And still leave another pouch for mags, etc.

I haven't gotten one, yet, specifically for that, and I will need to block the "vent holes", but it's rather discreet- I think about as queries as you can get.
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I've got a second-hand bass guitar case that I've been meaning to gut & replace the interior with egg-crate foam for discrete long-arm carry. I've also got a rifle case that I've plastered with various band stickers so that at first glance it looks like an instrument case of some sort. The yoga bag I think will be even more discrete.
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I found a trombone or something case at Goodwill. It will easily carry 2 scoped rifles once I get proper padding.

Very discreet and it has wheels on one end.

Super awesome. The wife saw it and suggested its new use.
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Yeah, I was going to suggest a trombone soft case (gig bag) or guitar case.
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Just don't use a fishing rod bag. It seems to scream "gun" to everyone that sees it. I've raised more suspicions when I carried that (I was even asked straight out what I had in it on a bus once, it caused that much alarm) then when I've had an actual rifle bag with me.
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I've probably said this before, but if you have to fly with a hard-sided rifle case, put a few guitar / muso stickers on it - the baggage handlers are much less likely to stomp on it for fun than if they think it's a firearm.
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Pelican case with "Solar/Caterpillar Turbines" stickers on it. Some "Halliburton" stickers wouldn't hurt either.

This works well along the GoM.
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Kel-Tec Sub-2000 folded up fits into a standard gym bag; wrap it with a few towels, put your spare mags inside rolled-up pairs of socks, and you can walk nearly anywhere with a scoped long gun without suspicion.
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evan price wrote:Kel-Tec Sub-2000 folded up fits into a standard gym bag; wrap it with a few towels, put your spare mags inside rolled-up pairs of socks, and you can walk nearly anywhere with a scoped long gun without suspicion.
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Put a paratrooper folding stock on that M-1, and it'll fit a baseball bag with ease.

And you get Band Of Brothers style points.
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