Air Travel with Bullets (not Ammo)

Should I Check bag Bullets or Mail

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Mark_Mark said:
I’m not going to play games with check-in agents. Some of them are not very bright...
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That's exactly why I don't declare ammunition or anything else I don't have to declare. At best it leads to questions and at worst they want you to show it to them for inspection. Once it goes on the conveyer belt TSA takes over and TSA doesn't give a **** about ammunition - just guns.
 
Shawn Dodson said:
That's exactly why I don't declare ammunition or anything else I don't have to declare. At best it leads to questions and at worst they want you to show it to them for inspection. Once it goes on the conveyer belt TSA takes over and TSA doesn't give a **** about ammunition - just guns.
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thanks man! I like your approach. My luck the TSA will taze me, someone will film it and I’ll be on Youtube

“he’s got 1,000 rounds of bullets” taze him
 
I too recommend shipping flat rate.
Several years ago I flew to LasVegas to meet my brother to drive to Colorado to elk hunt. I took him 500 405gr .458” bullets. I had them in a VERY WELL labeled and taped box in my checked bag. TSA cut the box open, then dumped the entire contents in my cloths bag. The loose lubricated bullets got SPG on my cloths and ruined most of them.
Last time I paid to fly commercial for my own business. I’ll only fly commercial if someone else is paying.
I’ll rent a car, and pay more to avoid flying commercial. In 2018, I drove a rental from W.Ga to Kerrville,Tx to avoid flying commercial. Good thing as my Scheduled flight was delayed and then Canceled. Would have taken me two, maybe three days to complete ferry flight from Kerrville to Ga. that took me 5hrs to complete. (Ferried plane to new owner. I’m a commercial pilot...) The airlines wouldn’t make it if they were transporting cattle the way they treat human passengers...
 
GooseGestapo said:
I too recommend shipping flat rate.
Several years ago I flew to LasVegas to meet my brother to drive to Colorado to elk hunt. I took him 500 405gr .458” bullets. I had them in a VERY WELL labeled and taped box in my checked bag. TSA cut the box open, then dumped the entire contents in my cloths bag. The loose lubricated bullets got SPG on my cloths and ruined most of them.
Last time I paid to fly commercial for my own business. I’ll only fly commercial if someone else is paying.
I’ll rent a car, and pay more to avoid flying commercial. In 2018, I drove a rental from W.Ga to Kerrville,Tx to avoid flying commercial. Good thing as my Scheduled flight was delayed and then Canceled. Would have taken me two, maybe three days to complete ferry flight from Kerrville to Ga. that took me 5hrs to complete. (Ferried plane to new owner. I’m a commercial pilot...) The airlines wouldn’t make it if they were transporting cattle the way they treat human passengers...
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I’ve driven across country 3 times to avoid having to airplane my guns and ammo. It was nice! I move alot, and I don’t trust the movers to steal my guns, ammo, gold, computer.
 
rabid wombat said:
A buddy of mine found that out when he smelled his luggage coming up the belt after he bought a quart of Mexican vanilla....he had to throw the luggage and most the clothes away....:barf:
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I worked at the airport when I was in my mid-20’s. We use to chunk bags like they were a a bag of hot potatos! I seen how they treat bag. Seen Super expensive LV luggage get treated like dirt.

So when I fly, I carry my gun in a large size Pelican case, 2 locks, and hard wired to the suite case

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Thats my check bag right now. Travel for work right now
 
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Blue68f100 said:
Fill the void with cut cardboard to keep it from shifting. Then use strapping tape to seal the box up. For the box to make the trip undamaged it can not be allowed to shift around.
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I used white duck tape on all the boxes! filled the space with a cut up priority box. then taped the whole thing, every corner, ever seam with more white duck tape. I’ll post photos once it arrives back at the homebase
 
FROGO207 said:
Hope it goes through. The local PO does not allow duct tape on the outside. Apparently it gets caught on the conveyor belts and things get ripped open. I'll second putting the boxes in a heavy bag. That's what MB does.
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Beat me to it. They're going to reject that. I would have used strapping tape. (Packing tape reinforced with fiber straps attached.)
 
Berry’s puts two 1000 round boxes into a third box, tapes that shut, them puts that box into a USPS box, stuffs the gap full and tapes that one and they still get busted open for bullets to dribble out, generally goes into a USPS tote at that point with whatever bullets are left.

Seems they don’t like the 40+ lbs boxes much.
 
D.B. Cooper said:
Beat me to it. They're going to reject that. I would have used strapping tape. (Packing tape reinforced with fiber straps attached.)
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they took it. it’s white duck tape, and I didn’t see any “ No white duck tape allowed “ so mabey I’m good??? well the shipping address is the same as mailing. postal lady made me take the 44# to the back and chunk it in the full bin... her quotes “ I hope there was no glass in the other packages” as I chunk my 44# brick
 
George P said:
No ORM-D label; now it's a "limited quantity" label: (old one on the left, new one on the right)
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I guess they hadn't heard that at my local UPS hub. I had the new emblem on it, the clerk was very helpful, but she insisted she also needed to put the ORM-D sticker on it, which she provided.

This was in early Jan., so either the word hadn't gotten around or it's just UPS policy.
 
Speedo66 said:
I guess they hadn't heard that at my local UPS hub. I had the new emblem on it, the clerk was very helpful, but she insisted she also needed to put the ORM-D sticker on it, which she provided.

This was in early Jan., so either the word hadn't gotten around or it's just UPS policy.
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I was employed for over three decades at that Corporation and towards the end employees were subjected to a constant unrelenting flow of written knowledge and certification quiz ranging from important to the most mundane unimportant questions one could be subjected to. Many of these "tests" went so far as to require a written statement in answer not once but five times. It got to the point that one's eyes glazed over upon hearing that another cert quiz would need completion by current shift's end and the object of learning the lesson was easily lost on the task at hand. Doubt that has changed much, I'm sure eventually that particular customer counter will come around and if they don't someone somewhere several pay grades above certainly has a new as of yet released quiz to remedy that error. That or perhaps the center has more than a few cases of the ORM-D stickers to use up yet.
 
Airport side note. ticket agents don’t know how to handle “I need to check a firearm”

Seattle airport, trainee wanted me to open the gun case right there at the ticket counter. I ask, are you sure?

Fort Myers airport, ticket agent said, let me see the lock case. perfect, down the belt it goes

Charlotte airport, ticket agent said open the locked case, and put the declaration card next to the gun, told me to lock it back up. and said, put your name number on the card incase TSA can’t open your case.... idiot!!!!

I have traveled countless times with a firearm. TSA’s own policy, Locked hard sided case with 2 lock that only the owner has accessed to. NO TSA style locks.
 
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