Firstly I wish all of you a very happy new year.
I must apologise for sort of disappearing and not finishing my hunt report.But get a load of this.
My brother who lives in the states found some old magazines that he bought and sent to me knowing that good mags are rare here.
The problem started once they arrived in Lusaka he had for some reason labelled the box for custom purposes "Guns and Ammo magazines"
I guess by now you have guessed the outcome I had an african SWAT team pick me up and take me to a local station.
No amount of explaining could persuade our clever officers that the box contained reading material and not weapons and spare ammo clips.
They would not even open the box as they were waiting for an army expert to come and verify the nature of arms I was trying to smuggle!!!
Anyways after a lot of string pulling,Legal fees and painful court hearing a sensible judge ordered the opening of the box and decided that after all I was not a gun runner.Although whilst clearing my name he did comment that in future my brother should be more careful so that the courts time is not wasted. You can imagine the flowery langauge that came to mind but I did bite my tongue as the last thing I wanted was to be charged with contempt of court.
By the way the army expert did never pitch up.

And for those that still dont get it the magazine was the Guns and Ammo hence the chaos.

Wow! Great story. I think this only shows how little understanding there are for firearms among most modern-day people. They don`t have a clue.
I experienced a similar thing. Well, mine was maybe a bit more serious, but still idiotic in my mind. I had removed the scope from my rifle, and carried it in the hand-luggage to avoid damage. Four different airports thought it was ok, but number five went "crazy". You should have seen the look in their eyes when they discovered it.

Zambian,

Your not much of a smuggler if you label the package with the name of the "illegal" contraband.

Next time tell your brother to label the package, "a bucket full of brains for the witless government officials of Zambia".

That should work.

Regards,

Terry

Zambian

You little coup plotter. Those magazines rolled up would have made fearsome weapons to use against desk jockeys.

Doesn't sound like an enjoyable experience and of course according to the judge it was your fault.

I hope the rest of your New Year is much more enjoyable.

Anders

That scope couldhave been really dangerous. You could have looked through it and made people appear really big!

Zambian,

Amazing story, and pretty much possible only in Africa! At least that it went to that length...

Erik

This is exactly why I send bullets (NB: NOT cartridges) as "machined components" rather than "bullets".

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Originally posted by Don G:
This is exactly why I send bullets (NB: NOT cartridges) as "machined components" rather than "bullets".

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Would cartridges be "assembled machined components"?

Looks like you are starting over from scratch again, eh Don? Did you not get your previous password updated?

Cheers,
Canuck

Zambian,

Just for fun I'm sending you a box with some old magazines it'll be labeled,,

"Soldier of Fortune & Combat Handgunner"

That ought to get them riled..

Just joking of course..

Sorry to hear of your troubles and I'm glad everything came out ok.

How about "How to Kill" volumes 1 to 7 plus the video.

Not to forget "Coup de tat, An A-Z" by Col. Michael Hoare.

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Originally posted by Canuck:
Looks like you are starting over from scratch again, eh Don? Did you not get your previous password updated?

Cheers,
Canuck

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Canuck,

Nope, I wormed up the process, as usual!

From moderator to newby in two easy steps!

In hindsight I should have posted this in the humour section.
Surestrike/NitroX,
Can you imagine the judge if you did send seditous material to me. I think going by his initial rection he would lock me up and throw the key away.
I think I need to invite JudgeG to come and train our judges.Maybe A sense of humour should be one of the topics.