A gun cart is a very convenient carrier for guns at the shooting range. If you plan on buying a guncart, the Simple Gun Cart from Cal-Graf Design and Off the Wall Guncart Company are one of many manufacturers. You can spend as much money as you want for a cart, and then some people use golf carts or 4x4s as guncarts, so they spend even more. But it isn't necessary. You could also just carry your rifles from stage to stage and put ammo and such in saddlebags over your shoulder.

If you're making one from scratch, building one from a little red wagon doesn't require cabinet maker's skills.

A Basic 4 gun wagon cart with horizontal carry will cost circa $100, $50-70 for the wagon, $20 for a box, $20 for pickup truck gun racks. A Winchester box like the one below will cost $60±. A good scrounger can do it for less.

While Captain Baylor's little red wagon guncart worked very well for carrying 2 long guns, 4 in a pinch, horizontal carry is frowned upon in some areas. This one was easy to pull uphill and won't tip over easily because of the low center of gravity. He reverted to this one after pulling a heavier wagon with vertical carry up the hill at Tin Star Ranch one time too many. The cooler was for hydration of the shooter. The squeeze bottle was Ballistol/water for gun cleaning (I no longer use Ballistol and field-clean with Windex/vinegar, oil with Rem Oil). The other big bottle has vinegar/water for fired cases using Clean Shot, not necessary if you shoot that new fangled modern smokeless stuff. There's a small gunsmith screwdriver kit in there and cleaning rods and such plus a shotgun belt just for the outrageous 14 round shotgun stages at Gunsmoke, Texas.

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