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8/30/2024 10:36:52 PM EDT
Anyone using one of the cheap $30 tennis bags for a disassembled 16.1" AR?

not really wanting to drop the $ on the tacticool bags that look like racquet cases.
8/30/2024 11:44:22 PM EDT
[#1]
Originally Posted By Bubbatheredneck:
Anyone using one of the cheap $30 tennis bags for a disassembled 16.1" AR?

not really wanting to drop the $ on the tacticool bags that look like racquet cases.
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Whatever you end up with make sure it has some padding.

Before ponying up for a tacticool bag, I tried a regular tennis racket bag for one of my SBRs, and a week later I found a nice chunk missing from the top of my T2.    
I'll be your Tackleberry
8/31/2024 12:13:20 AM EDT
[#2]
Most tennis bags are pretty floppy, and don't carry a disassembled rifle very well.  Try a ukulele travel case.
Nonne delectaimini? Nonne hoc est quare adsitis?
8/31/2024 12:37:34 PM EDT
[#3]
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Originally Posted By noveske_nut:
Whatever you end up with make sure it has some padding.

Before ponying up for a tacticool bag, I tried a regular tennis racket bag for one of my SBRs, and a week later I found a nice chunk missing from the top of my T2.    
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Get a sheet of stiff-ish foam and cut it to fit the bag and protect the rifle.
Let us disappoint the Men who are raising themselves upon the ruin of this Country.
~John Adams
9/15/2024 8:21:44 AM EDT
[Last Edit: dalle0001][Edited] [#4]
As long as it fits, then yeah. I seen some folks carrying a tool box with the rifle broken down in it. I actually used a golf bag a few times.

My mom actually bought me this Eberlestock backpack for Christmas last year and I've been using it up until now. It could fit a 14.5 inch broken down AR15 rifle easily. I'm not sure of the model but it doesn't look like it could fit a rifle but it can. It is much better than the other bags I used.

The thing I'm worried about is sometimes is someone identifying the bag and seeing me at some other place. I go to this gym and one of the range workers is there too and I'm just worried one day the person will see me with a bag I brought to the range, and think automatically I'm up to no good even though I'm bringing in clothes to change. So I'd like to have a specific "gun" bag just in case and not actual sports bag that could be used elsewhere.
9/15/2024 9:01:21 AM EDT
[#5]
I do not know what bag to get.

Recently (as in last 6 months) I saw a fat guy wearing cargo shorts carrying a tennis racket bag.  Of course he could be playing tennis, but he wasn’t selling the illusion that there was a tennis racket in the bag.

The tennis bag looked very out of place.   I also suppose I was the only one to notice, but maybe not.
Words fall from your mouth like shit from ass.
9/15/2024 9:08:43 AM EDT
[#6]
I hit the local Goodwills and buy the cases. The Head is a double side I bought for $7, I carry a 10" 5.56 on one side and a 7.5" 300 blackout on the other side. The red Wilson, I use for my 5" 9mm.  


9/15/2024 9:12:53 AM EDT
[#7]
Just make sure if you’re going to carry a tennis bag, make sure you look like you can actually play tennis.
9/15/2024 9:14:38 AM EDT
[#8]
I actually won a bid on eBay yesterday for a tennis racket bag. $18 shipped. Hopefully it works out good.
9/15/2024 9:18:37 AM EDT
[Last Edit: swampfoxoutdoors][Edited] [#9]
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Originally Posted By Steamedliver:
I do not know what bag to get.

Recently (as in last 6 months) I saw a fat guy wearing cargo shorts carrying a tennis racket bag.  Of course he could be playing tennis, but he wasn’t selling the illusion that there was a tennis racket in the bag.

The tennis bag looked very out of place.   I also suppose I was the only one to notice, but maybe not.
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So maybe he should have had has gat in a XXL Cheetos bag? Would have been more gray man. lol

I know what you mean tho. Maybe a Wilson sticker on the back glass of your vehicle and a tube of tennis’s balls. Then in your backpack a big tall Gatorade water bottle.


And wife/Gf in short tennis skirt.
9/15/2024 10:01:50 AM EDT
[#10]
Where are you carrying it: Tennis courts> GTG, taking it to lunch, 'hey honey, that guy is carrying a tennis racket into Chipotle, that's odd...'.

Leaving it in the car, still not a great theft deterrent, carrying from house to car, likely OK (boy, Bob sure does play a lot of tennis, I mean like EVERYDAY).


I don't think covert carry case is a one size fits all, maybe have a few different types?
9/15/2024 10:06:45 AM EDT
[#11]
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Originally Posted By Steamedliver:
I do not know what bag to get.

Recently (as in last 6 months) I saw a fat guy wearing cargo shorts carrying a tennis racket bag.  Of course he could be playing tennis, but he wasn’t selling the illusion that there was a tennis racket in the bag.

The tennis bag looked very out of place.   I also suppose I was the only one to notice, but maybe not.
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Nobody thinks twice about a fat guy carrying a ukulele case.
Nonne delectaimini? Nonne hoc est quare adsitis?
9/15/2024 10:49:27 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By Rbass:
Just make sure if you’re going to carry a tennis bag, make sure you look like you can actually play tennis.
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Maybe use fat/older people should look at pickleball cases then since you don’t have to run as much
Let us disappoint the Men who are raising themselves upon the ruin of this Country.
~John Adams
9/15/2024 10:54:16 AM EDT
[Last Edit: thebert][Edited] [#13]
Blackhawk used to make a case for the AR15 that looked like a tennis racket bag. I think they dont make it anymore.
9/20/2024 9:16:59 PM EDT
[#14]
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All of these will fit in this bag. Some tighter than others.

Funny thing is my hellion and Tavor won’t.
4/25/2025 11:44:31 AM EDT
[#15]
I'd carry mine with the upper and lower separated in a bag made for carrying two tennis raquets. The upper in one half and the lower in the other.

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