This one was based on a Radio Flyer #29 All-Terrain Wagon.
It's bigger than the normal Radio Flyer wagon. I made it into a vertical
cart with a fold-down gunrack and removable box.I had been looking for a vertical 2 wheel gun cart. I had built a series of wagon-based guncarts. These were the last 2:
This one was based on a Radio Flyer #29 All-Terrain Wagon.
It's bigger than the normal Radio Flyer wagon. I made it into a vertical
cart with a fold-down gunrack and removable box.
Good points:
1. Holds everything.
2. Fits, more or less, into my SUV.
Bad points:
1. Topheavy
2. Small wheels make it hard to pull up hill on rough terrain.
Finally I reverted to the basic Radio Flyer Town and Country Wagon, modified to fit the Winchester box on the front. Better. Lighter in weight. Horizontal carry safer from the tipover standpoint. Not considered politically correct in some areas, but okay in Texas. At least 2 top shooters have horizontal carry carts. Carries even more. 2 guns are okay. 3 or 4 begin to interfere with each other.
So I ordered a Cal-Graf "Simple" Cart. Cheap, $150+$40 shipping:
This is their photo of it. Pretty realistic. Note
that there is no SXS shotgun, and the guns have their actions closed, a
condition no longer allowed in SASS.
This shows the latest modification, a
new handle kit, available from Cal-Graf to update your old one if desired
for $12 in pine. Grab the handle of the old design sometime when you haven't
locked the lid, and you'll understand the desire for this one among some
people. Now if they would improve the front legs...
Three weeks + after the order (Tell me they're not popular!),
this box arrived at Castle Rich.
Unloaded, the pieces looked like this. The big box comes
assembled as does the upper ammo box/gunrack.
Flaw #1 noted. Look at the rear upper edge of the box.
The wood has shredded. Functionality is not impaired, just perfection. If
you want perfection, it will cost, and don't start with pine.
It is visible when the lid is closed, too.
From the box to here takes about 5 minutes.
Top section is attached to bottom section with capbolts
and wingnuts for easy assembly and disassembly.
The fiberglass axle slides in its holes, and the wheels
are kept on with cotter pins.
The front legs have screws embedded in the tops which
screw into blind nuts in the plywood base.
Flaw #2: The gun retaining bar arrived broken. As I've
built such devices, I don't think it can be done reliably without breakage
using this design. This piece is poplar, not pine.
Flaw #3. The bar won't fit over an opened SXS without half-closing the action on the SXS. They're hard enough to keep open.
Flaw #4. When the lid is opened, it hits the levers of opened lever guns, and it won't stay up at that angle.
At this angle it'll stay open, but it closes the levers, a no-no.
But it's a good looking, functional cart. The flaws can
be overcome. And we can make it look different from the other 345 at the
match that all look exactly alike. We have the technology...