I use an embarrassingly cheap and thin canvas slip to get my rifle from the house to wherever. I figure it will be subjected to more hazard and abuse at the range or in the field than it will be in the car, and probably none of it will be as bad as the knocks some of the originals were subjected to.
I was at the primitive range at the Friendship national matches last month and it occurred to me that the rifles being used there are handled and fired a lot - a whole lot (guys talking about using a case of powder a year). Most of the rifles have accumulated a well used patina and they look pretty darned good for it.
