My buddies know to not bother me when i'm hunting. :)

The truth is I live close to all my hunting areas. I can drive to all of them in the morning. So, I don't camp. If my gun let me down i'd only lose the one day of hunting.

Plus, I have a Jeep Wrangler with a soft top. I'd never leave a gun in it parked during hunting season in the middle of the mountains. I'm sure it wouldn't be there when I got back.

I was talking primarily about hunting a good ways away from home Pete. Take my Alaskan hunts for instance. When I go there, you think I take ONE rifle? Hell no! I take 4 up with me. A bolt action .30-06, My TC PH with .30-06 barrel, my .30-30, and my .444 marlin. And sometimes my ML barrel for the PH too. Also on my side is my .500 S&W in case of a chance encounter with a Brown looking at me like a steak dinner. If I go to CO on a hunt, I take my Mauser action .30-06 with the Shilen barrel, My .300WM, old trusty thuddy thuddy (rarely leave home without her :D ) and my TC PH with the .338fed barrel. I take the primary out and if something happens and I get a click instead of a BOOM I haul my angry rear end back to my RV and grab another. As far as someone breaking into my RV, my traveling companions would make that a VERY bad day for an idiot trying it. A combined weight of around 322 pounds of muscle and teeth would have a little something for a snack :D My Rotties love to snack on thieves. It's kinda like a treat for them.

I take 2 to the cabin. Always want a backup, in case something goes haywire. Without that backup rifle, the drive back home to retrieve another, is almost 200 miles.

My drive to the hunting lease is around 80 miles. There are always at least three guns in the box behind the seat of my little Ford Ranger - sometimes four or five. I may use a different gun for hunts on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Or use one gun for all hunts but shoot one or two others on the range after the Saturday and Sunday morning hunts.

Not a legal transport that way, not here in Michigan. We must close-case our rifles when laying-out/down like that. But what you got there is pretty darn cool.

Do you load all 4-5 prior to leaving home?

Well, I guess I could put a door on the box and turn it into a five gun closed case. :s2:

I have loaded all five on occasion. But it's usually three or four, with an assortment of range rods in the bottom compartment.

It is too bad that Michigan isn't a part of the USA. That kind of oppression is BS!

In/around 1992, my hunting buddy pulled into deer camp with his uncased rifle hanging horizontally in the back window of his Chevy pickup. But I'm not sure if that practice is still allowed by our Dept Of Natural Resources (DNR) anymore.

Do that today and he'll get a ticket and most likely the rifle confiscated. Lean it up against the truck or lay it on the tailgate and find out what happens......

http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7...1579--,00.html

I on occasion had my 12ga single shot or my 30-30 hanging in my gun rack in my truck when I went to high school (early to mid 80's). My buddies and I would go hunting after school sometimes. Nobody stole them, never got in trouble. When I was in college at VA Tech I had those same guns and a compound bow in my dorm closet. Boy have times changed.

Cool carrier Semi, I expect nothing less from our resident MacGyver :D