Combination shooter's bench and gun carrying case
OwnerRichard L. DeVaul, Gerald P. Vaiknessinventors
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Abstract
A gun case for a target rifle also serves as a collapsible portable shooter's bench. The bench has three detachable legs and three sockets or mounts on each side, permitting the shooter's bench to be set up for the right handed or left handed shooters. A gun rest for supporting the rifle fits into a socket or sleeve in the case. The case is equipped with locks to secure it when being stored or transported.
Claims10
A combination gun case and shooter's bench comprising a casing having first and second casing halves suitably dimensioned to contain a target rifle, each said casing half being formed of a flat horizontal panel and a side wall, the side walls being hinged to close together in clamshell fashion, each of said flat horizontal panels including a plurality of leg mountings formed on an outer surface thereof and a gun rest sleeve thereon extending normal thereto;
- a plurality of adjustable-length legs including means for detachably mounting the legs to respective leg mountings on either of said flat horizontal panels;
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- a gun rest having a yoke for supporting said target rifle for shooting and a post supporting said yoke, the post being insertable into the gun rest sleeve on either of said casing halves.
A combination gun case and shooter's bench comprising a generally L-shaped casing having first and second casing halves suitably dimensioned to contain a target rifle and serving as a portable bench, the casing halves each having a flat horizontal L-shaped panel with a cutout defining a shooter's position, a relatively narrow portion alongside said shooter's position, and a relatively wide portion forward of the shooter's position and the narrow portion;
- the casing including a plurality of leg mounts on the L-shaped panel of said first casing half and a gun rest sleeve in the relatively wide portion of the L-shaped panel of the second casing half;
- a plurality of legs which include means for detachably mounting the legs to respective ones of said leg mounts;
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- a gun rest having a yoke for supporting said target rifle for shooting and a post supporting said yoke, the post being insertable into said gun rest sleeve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.