I know, that thing stinks ,,, I even emailed Marcum with a good idea, but I got no reply,, I was in my neighbors garage, and he had this piece of tire tread,and it was about the size of the bottom of my showdown,, so I asked him for it, and then cut it to the size of the bottom of the case, and glued it to the bottom of the case using screws and shoe-goo..now there is a heavy duty rubber bottom on the case that can sit in slushy type snow etc etc. without getting the case all wet, and it won't freeze to the ice either... seems like a NO BRAINER to me that they would do something like that to allow the case to be sitting out on the ice with no issues...but hey what do I know