Best Bow Cases for Air Travel

The Pelican 1745BOW is the case you buy when the bow flies more than you'd like. It's the only case here that ships with Travel Sentry locking latches in the box rather than selling you the retrofit, and it's certified to IP67 and MIL-SPEC — real standards, published, not the words "airline approved" on a sticker. Pelican's lifetime warranty is the genuine you-break-it-we-replace-it kind. The catch is the price and the fact that Pelican quotes weight with the bow interior fitted, so the empty figure isn't published.

Standard

Ip67

Locks

Travel-sentry-included

Warranty

Lifetime

L+W+H

74.8 in

Cut for Ravin's compact crossbows, this is the smallest case in the category by linear inches — 62.25, essentially at the airline oversize threshold rather than far past it — and at 17.58 lb it's the lightest hard case here by a wide margin. It's MIL-STD 810H rated, takes SKB's TSA-compatible lock retrofit, and carries the lifetime warranty. If you shoot a Ravin and you fly, this is the one.

Standard

Mil-std-810

Weight

17.6 lb

Locks

Travel-sentry-compatible

Warranty

Lifetime

SKB's iSeries double is the case for someone travelling with two bows, or one bow and a lot of gear. It's MIL-STD 810H rated, waterproof, and carries SKB's lifetime warranty — and at 24.27 lb empty it's meaningfully lighter than SKB's biggest single-bow cases while holding twice as much. The one thing to know before you buy: the Trigger Latch system is not Travel Sentry out of the box. SKB sells a TSA-compatible retrofit separately, which is a strange omission at this price.

Standard

Mil-std-810

Weight

24.3 lb

Locks

Travel-sentry-compatible

Warranty

Lifetime