Pelican Case or ?

[jyl]

Need a mid-size Pelican type of case. Do you buy genuine Pelican brand, or the various "looks like" brands, and why?

[Norm K]

I own a half-dozen or so Pelican cases in a variety of sizes. If I need another such case, unless it's for something of low-value or I don't expect the case to do much more than store something on a shelf, I'll definitely go with another Pelican.

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[John Rogers]

Depends on what you are going to do. For example I have a $10,000 muzzle loading target rifle that lays in the back of my range vehicle and it has a home made sleeve and gun sock inside it. If I were to fly to a match somewhere I would want a case that is airline approved and lockable. We have some guy that come out to the range and their cases are like a status symbol so remember the idea is to protect the gun.

[legion]

Does it really need to protect the item inside? Then yes, get a Pelican case.

Is it just to make carrying convenient but you really don't need to protect the item? Get a cheap knockoff.

They both have their purposes IMO.

[GH85Carrera]

Pelican cases are really nice. We have several that we keep valuable equipment for the company stored and protected when not in use. Hard to beat the quality of them.

[Gogar]

We have about 20-25 Pelican and Storm cases

Get the "STORM" case. Storm and Pelican are the same company and both cases have a great warranty,
but STORM has button-latches that just work better and give you a more positive feel and a much better method for replacement of said latch if it goes bad.
Punch out the pin, get fresh latch, hammer in the pin. Great stuff.

[gr8fl4porsche]

I have a Case Club case - from Amazon, that I use daily in my car.

2.5 years of bouncing around the back of a Yukon, all is well. Nice product.

[jyl]

It'll be used for my growing videography hobby, so will hold videocamera, mics, sound recorders, cables, tapes, drives, headphones, etc. Each individual thing is fairly cheap ('cuz I am fairly cheap) but I suppose the total kit will eventually be about $1000-1500. I think I'll get a STORM on your recs. Going to measure and figure out needed size. Thanks PPOT!

[Yorkie]

Take a look at Pelican's new lower cost Vault line.

[Jim Bremner]

Www.caseclub.com they do nice work!

[CurtEgerer]

Even Horrible Freight sells Pelican-type cases (Apache). I have Pelicans and have looked at the HF cases and see very little difference, other than cost.

https://www.harborfreight.com/4800-weatherproof-protective-case-x-large-64250.html

[Cajundaddy]

It really depends on how you plan to use it. I have $3k in camera gear and I prefer to keep it in a camera backpack for both international travel and ease of use out in the field. Mine is a Lowepro that I have owned for 20 years but there are many others. https://www.lowepro.com/us-en/

I also have several cases for astronomy gear including Pelican and OEM. Pelican is the most robust and also the most $$. To me it shouts "high value theft target" so I rarely travel with it, but a very nice case. The backpack just suits my shooting style better and leaves both hands free. I prefer to travel light so the less gear I need to hand carry, the better.