Bag for a Canon EF 600mm IS lens

Calling all Canon 600mm IS lens owners!
Just ordered the "Big Gun" and wondered what bag you all use to carry it in? One thing I think I will want is to stow it with body and maybe converter attached ready for action.

95% of the time my lens isn't in a bag, just on my pickup seat or in the back. If you want to hike with it I'd get a Kinesis pack. They work great for this purpose and will fit the lens and body attached.

Different bags for different purposes. At home, or when traveling by car, it stays in a Tenba big lens bag or an old Bogan lightstand/tripod bag. The Tenba is very sturdy, but not quite tall enough to hold the lens with the lens hood extended, so there's probably a better choice. The advantage of the Bogan bag is that it can hold the lens with hood extended and camera attached. I hate attaching and detaching the lens hoods (the latches contains tiny springs that can break). If I'm actually shooting from the car, the lens and camera go upright on the front passenger seat, held in place by a lens strap over the seatback. Most other arrangements risk damage in an emergency stop. When traveling by air, the lens goes in a carry-on Lowe Pro Roadrunner (with much other equipment, including at least three other lenses, a big stack of TCs and extension tubes, a flash, and at least one body), while the hood goes in a Domke big lens bag (with clothing) inside a checked Pelican case. The Domke bag is smaller and less well padded and less useful than the Tenba bag, but the latter takes too much room in checked luggage. In the field, I use no bag at all, but carry the lens on a tripod over my shoulder. Even with a camera pre-mounted, pulling the lens out of a bag and getting it on a tripod is too slow when opportunities present themselves. (On a really long walk with little prospect of opportunities along the way, I might carry the lens on its lens strap over my shoulder, but never in a bag.)

By the way, Googling "Big Gun" gives all sorts of interesting results, but no lens bag. Do you have a URL for the product you bought?

Try page 130 in the B&H catalog, gives you lots of choices. I carry a 800 f5.6 for miles and it so far has never seen the inside of a bag. I do carry some large water proof bags incase of flood. There have been times when I thought about the bag thing. Most of my bags are Lowepro and I really do like them and I see that they have one to fit the 600, (lens trecker 600 aw) for $130.00 B&H price. Hope this helps.

I've used the LowePro Lenstrekker 600 for over a year - I keep the lens in the bag, with the hood reversed - the bag will hold the lens, hood reversed, and a pro 1-series body attached, but you cannot have even the 1.4 Extender attached, there just isn't enough height inside the bag - and this is without the leather cover....

I like the lowepro bag, the belt is ample to support the weight during a hike in to a setup point. The external pouch is just large enough to hold a set of extenders, battery, polarizer, TC- shutter release, and that's about it.

When I bought my 500 lens it broke the bank. It came in a metal case which I certainly did not want to carry around (the lens alone is 7+ pounds). Since I could not afford to buy an expensive bag, I bought a duffle bag, lined it with medium to stiff foam rubber and it fits in nicely with camera on, is somewhat waterproof, easy to carry,well protected with padding and a heck of alot cheaper than LowPro.

Thanks for all your replies.
Looks like I'll probably go for the Lens Trekker 600.
Thanks again folks.

"Looks like I'll probably go for the Lens Trekker 600."

That should work as well as any of the similar products, though at only 20.5 inches high (inside), it will force you to reverse the hood every time the lens goes in the bag. It would take about 25.5 inches to let the hood stay in the operating position (and more, of course, for a body and TC). Just measured my Tenba, which offers about 23 inches of room.

Incidentally, having a body attached to the lens would be fine for walking, but could result in damage to the lens or body when traveling by car or plane. I once had the aperture ring destroyed on an 800mm FD Canon by having a heavy pro body attached when the airboat I was in hit some mud. The result was a lens that would only work at f32.