"Protecta A Gun" cardboard boxes.

[Frank237]

These are plain brown boxes that look almost identical to the metal reinforced edge, blue S&W cardboard boxes. At least in their photos anyway. Sold by Roberts Arms Specialities in Harpers Ferry, W. VA.

They run $5-$6 each, and come in sevral sizes. Far cheaper than 2 piece S&W boxes in good shape.

Anyone use them? I have several shooter grade revolvers that are taking up a ton of space in the safe. So I thought of storing them in these boxes, wrapped in VPI paper, oiled, etc.

Are they the same quality as the older 2 piece Smith boxes?


Thanks in advance...


FN in MT

 

[GJH77]

I bought a police trade in at a gun show last year, and it came in a box like that. The distributor had the entire group of used guns in the same type of box, and I wondered where they came from. If it is the same manufacturer, I am still using it and it is a good box for the safe.

 

[REM 3200]

Try here:
http://www.protecta-gun.com/orderform.pdf

 

[rburg]

A while back I found a bunch of boxes used to ship computer cards. They even had foam egg crate padding. As long as you bag the gun in a ziplock, they're fine. I don't trust foam against gun metal, but I do if its bagged.

When I ran out of the card boxes, I lucked into some nearly identical boxes sold at Office Despot or Max, I forget which. They weren't cheap, but a lot less then $6 each. I'm guessing a buck or two. But by then I'd been finding and saving all the eggcrate foam I could.

I'm going to suggest you tailor your box to the job you expect from it. My needs were just long term storage, so a box with a plain end I could use a magic marker on was great. No one but me was supposed to see them. But like most plans, mine failed and I ended up taking some of them to gun shows. I just improvised and never put the box on the table. All the vultures saw was a bagged gun coming up above the table.

The real advantage is the supply store advertised them as shipping boxes. To that end, you could buy them in different sizes, some long enough to put in 6 1/2" guns. Back then my safe looked really clean and well organized. All the shelves filled with similar boxes, labeled so I could find things. Life was good. But the plan didn't last.