Similar, I agree. However, I am hard on gear and in my inspection of the Midway bag it is my conclusion that it will not survive me, or the airline baggage handlers.
I am considering the 5.11 range bag. It is not cheap ($100 at the Indy 1500), but like father says "buy it right, pay once".
Everything cheap I have ever bought has just ended up costing me money. Sometimes its a good idea to buy cheap the first round to make sure its something that you are going to use enough to justify buying the good stuff.
The only possible flaw I found with the 5.11 bag is that the rings for the shoulder strap aren't attached to a strap that goes all the way around the bag.
I shall re-examine that potential weak point. The lady that does my suits can also do heavy duty stitching. I may reinforce it or use a different strap, like a padded computer case as I have on my briefcase.
The problem with range bags, like most gear in the gun world, is that it is not designed for active shooters (as economy must demand).
This is the next one I am looking at buying.Depends on what you want to do. If you only need a bag from the trunk of the car to the firing line, yeah, why pay the extra dough on the 5.11?
However, since I travel a lot for gun school (several flights a year) and am continually pulling it out of rental cars, checking into plane baggage, and collapsing on top of it in hotel rooms and getting blood, sweat and tears on it, I need something I can beat with two framing hammers and it will pull through.
I shall re-examine that potential weak point. The lady that does my suits can also do heavy duty stitching. I may reinforce it or use a different strap, like a padded computer case as I have on my briefcase.
The problem with range bags, like most gear in the gun world, is that it is not designed for active shooters (as economy must demand).