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Who do you use to insure your rifles when travelling. Thanks, AR | ||
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Reddy, I used to use one of the agencies that specialize in firearm insurance. I was pleasantly surprised to eventually discover that my homeowners insurer, State Farm, could give me the coverage I needed at a lot cheaper price. Also, the coverage was for year-round, not for only a specific travel period like the other providers. If you haven't already talked to your own provider, give it a try. Best regards, Tim | |||
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WWW.SIAI.NET dealt with them for years,and they are great. Remember, forgivness is easier to get than permission. | |||
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Arjun, Travelers has a program offered through Core-Vens. See here. There may be better programs out there, but the Core-Vens program offers the most bang for the buck that I have seen. Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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I used Core-Vens for a few years and was very happy with their service. Great rates as well. I met these guys at DSC this year and switched when it was time to renew as they insure trophies as well. https://www.gunandtrophy.com/ Safe and pleasant weekend to everyone. LL | |||
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I used SIAI for an upcoming trip to Zim. Insured a high dollar DR for an appropriate amount and it was done the next day no questions asked. Great outfit. | |||
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I carried Core-Vens for several years as well. Between my home insurance policy and other safe guards, I decided to let my Core-Vens policy expire. I was subsequently sent a bill by Core-Vens for a portion of the premium after it should have expired. When I declined to pay, they threatened turning me over to a collection agency. Not that I give a s*&t about a collection agency, but my wife called and asked what the justification was for a bill post-expiration. They claimed that they continue to provide coverage if a client fails to pay for some period of time, and we owed them the pro-rated premium for the time they elected to extend coverage. OK - I could have sent them a notice of cancellation, and perhaps that would have been the appropriate thing to do, but I have more pressing things to deal with on a daily basis. Furthermore, I would be shocked if they honored the loss of one or more of my doubles had such loss occurred during their "grace period". I have no further use for Core-Vens. JEB Katy, TX Already I was beginning to fall into the African way of thinking: That if you properly respect what you are after, and shoot it cleanly and on the animal's terrain, if you imprison in your mind all the wonder of the day from sky to smell to breeze to flowers—then you have not merely killed an animal. You have lent immortality to a beast you have killed because you loved him and wanted him forever so that you could always recapture the day - Robert Ruark DSC Life Member NRA Life Member | |||
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Core-Vens Mike ______________ DSC DRSS (again) SCI Life NRA Life Sables Life Mzuri IPHA "To be a Marine is enough." | |||
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I have been travelling my air since 1967 - that is 52 years ago. I travel quite a bit now, flying all over the world. I have never lost any baggage. Once my bag did not make it on the flight with me, and was delivered the next day. That was on a KLM flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. Now, I also have a friend, who seem to loose his bags on a regular basis. And the he did that while travelling with me too!! We were travelling First Class - Air Zimbabwe from Vic Falls to Johannesburg, then Emirates to Dubai. May be some of us are just lucky?? | |||
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Maybe, Saeed. But now you have tempted the fates and are jinxed and doomed. Never say never. Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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Buy insurance against losing a rifle on an African hunt? What financial goal are you attempting to accomplish? Seems nonsensical to me. The purpose of insurance is to mitigate a loss you cannot otherwise afford to absorb. The simplest of African plains game hunts will cost a minimum of $10,000, with $25,000 closer to the norm. If a hunter can afford the "loss" of this amount of money, then it is difficult to see not being able to absorb the loss of a $1,000 to $2,000 rifle. Will you truly be financially distressed if your rifle is lost? Perhaps the rifle has great sentimental value to you. An insurance pay-off won't do anything to mitigate the loss of sentiment, now will it? Whatever the premium for such insurance, it amounts to a built-in "loss". Why would you intentionally incur such a loss when you can afford to absorb a larger, but by definition, unlikely loss? Maybe you're taking a $35,000 British-built double with you on your $10,000 hunt. It would be understandable that you can afford to drop $10,000 but not an extra $35,000. If that is the case maybe you should rethink the kind of guns you want to take traveling. | |||
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Stonecreek, I agree and travel loss is definitely at the lower risk end. I carry the insurance more to cover for a possible break in where I could have a greater loss. Safe travels | |||
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No shizz! Anybody that flew on Air Zimbabwe and lived to tell about it was just plain lucky! In any event, in answering the original inquiry: SIAI located in Florida. | |||
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Suit yourself, of course, and no offense intended, but this may be the worst advice on this subject I have ever seen posted on these forums. Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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Maybe you're taking a $35,000 British-built double with you on your $10,000 hunt. It would be understandable that you can afford to drop $10,000 but not an extra $35,000. If that is the case maybe you should rethink the kind of guns you want to take traveling.[/QUOTE] huh ? | |||
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Horrible advice. I'll gladly pay a couple of hundred dollars for insurance against loosing a $20K double rifle on a hunt that cost the same amount. As for rethinking the kind of gun I decide is the appropriate weapon to take on the hunt of my choice ... none of your damned business. | |||
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If you add a few more zeros to your rifle then you might think differently
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Eastern Insurance is the only way to go. Price is much better than SAIA or Corvens, homeowner, etc. Ive priced them all. For example $50,000 in blanket gun insurance cost $150.00 per year. Contact person is now Laura Sewell since Jack Richardson has passed. York, SC | |||
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concur... USN (ret) DRSS Verney-Carron 450NE Cogswell & Harrison 375 Fl NE Sabatti Big Five 375 FL Magnum NE DSC Life Member NRA Life Member | |||
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Yes, I would. My personal banker would not let me spend community funds to replace said firearm. However, if insurance were paying the replacement cost, it would be no problem. | |||
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With that logic- only by cheap used cars, 50% off expiring meat at the grocer "generic "BEER" rather than even Old Milwaukee only shoes from "Payless" or better yet Goodwill chinese dollar watches and on and on We choose to do the things we do not always or even at all based on monetary values Insurance is available -- just as we choose our activity and our rifle (watch, golf cubs etc) so we may or may not choose to insure or not insure DuggaBoye-O NRA-Life Whittington-Life TSRA-Life DRSS DSC HSC SCI | |||
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Do you have a phone number or email? | |||
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I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who has collected a claim for a firearm lost in transit on a hunting trip. | |||
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Now there's a logical reason to buy insurance. I'd be interested in hearing others which make financial sense. | |||
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You don't think spending $150 to insure a $20,000 or more rifle makes financial sense? | |||
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State Farm home insurance, covers everything but the dog. Been doing all my insurance business with them for 50 plus years, never been disappointed. I can also get a special firearms travel insureance for $100 that game me extra coverage on my double rifles. Highly recommend them.. Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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here is phone number for laura Sewell at Eastern Insurance. 1-800-545-9326. Jack Richardson used to be the main guy there but he passed last year. if any weapon you have is over $10k you must declare details on it but others are covered under a blanket. I have 2 friends that have had to file claims and both happened flawlessly. York, SC | |||
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Not when all you have to do is save that $150 premium for 133 years, then you could just buy a new rifle without going through the insurance company. ____________________________________________ "Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchett. | |||
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I have- 1994- Lost 4 in transit back to the US. Insurance paid They were recovered by the Airline barely over a year later. I immediately offered to refund the insurance settlement paid to me-- To my astonishment - the carrier declined due to some "internal accounting reason" As well,had guns go missing temporarily on two other trips in the 80's and 90's Both times recovered. Once the way over and they were found in time to use them on the hunt, the other not until the trip was completed. (They were returned to the US) so, Yes, I buy insurance and have benefitted from that decision. | |||
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Insurance is easy. Whether one can afford to replace the insured item is not relevant. If there is any appreciable risk of loss, and if buyer’s due diligence on the insurer has been done and is satisfactory, then there is only one simple equation to solve: Value of insured item(s) minus cost of insurance. If the answer is a significant positive number, then buy the insurance. Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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Thanks for all of the replies. Some people buy insurance (on many things, not just guns) in a way that seems to defy financial logic. I've long been puzzled by this phenomenon, but the comments here provide a great deal of insight into the emotions and decision-making processes that result in a choice of whether to buy or not. I am a bit surprised that a group of people who are likely on the higher end of the income scale are apparently rather sensitive to the prospect of relatively small losses. Few people, even those in the top 5% of income, can absorb the loss of something like a house or a small business location without significant financial distress,. The same is true of losing the cost of an automobile. So virtually all of us insure those things. However, if you have a loss on your house or car the deductible is similar to, or even higher than, the cost of the typical hunting rifle -- even a very nice one. But this same group of people doesn't seem to fret over the deductible. This seems very odd to me. The deductible on my car is $2,000. The deductible on my house is around $4,000. I own some very nice firearms whose value runs into four figures, but none of them start with more than a "4". So, if a hailstorm (exceedingly common in Texas) beats the roof off of my house I'll be out $4,000 before the insurance starts to help out in replacing it. But if I'm not losing sleep over that, why should I fret about the possibility of losing a gun on a hunting trip which is of some lesser value? I think you can understand why trip insurance for my gun seems illogical to me. But I can now understand why it seems compulsory for others. Decisions need not follow logic when emotion is involved. | |||
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Thanks everyone for your advise in the end I ended up using SIAI, who i have used in the past as well. Thanks, AR | |||
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Maybe you can afford to lose a $30,000 double rifle, I cannot!
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Yeah, I get real emotional when I consider losing any one or more of them that cost more than an automobile - or, God forbid, all of them in a house fire! But there is no emotion in the equation I posted above. Just arithmetic: Value of insured item(s) minus cost of insurance. If the answer is a significant positive number, then buy the insurance. Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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The facts in bold print tend to negate your opinion on the need for insurance on a firearm that may or may not be worth the cost to you, but in my case though my only very expensive rifle is a Westley Richards 500-450 ex double rifle but I have several other double rifles that are in the $10K-$20K range, and bolts that are in the $5K range that certainly do not want to loose, and the insurance cost is so I can try to replace what I lost, no matter the monetary value, regardless if it is a old keepsake or a real monetary loss. I simply do not understand the fact that I can afford to replace any rifle lost, because of my ability to afford an African safari as a reason to not insure my rifles against loss, cheap or expensive. ……………………………………………... ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith | |||
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Cause you are rational and close to risk neutral. Insurance is a great business. Especially insuring remote low probability events. Warren buffet has made vast sums of money doing it - the float from insurance premiums is a thing of beauty. The problem is you need a mechanism to do it. I would write insurance for firearms travel all day. The insurance part is stupid simple and it completely favors the party writing the insurance. Collecting or writing premium to highly risk averse people going of marketed dangerous game hunts ( ) would require you to set up a booth at dsc or sci. It’s a thin market and the administrative/transaction cost of doing it is expensive not the payout on the insurance. Guns don’t get lost in baggage - they are a pretty well monitored class of cargo for airlines. There are alternatives or risk reducing supplements to buying insurance - fly Emirates or minimize stop over points. I have not looked at these insurance contracts cause I don’t buy them. But knowing how insurance contracts are written - always favor the party selling insurance. I would bet claims would need to be filed with airlines and the $1,700 allowance on international flights would have to be utilized first. One can insure or self insure. A lot of real risk in life is self insured. I insure one of my houses cause I keep a bank equity line on it. The insurance moves most of the risk onto me and insures the tails - I am fine with that. In Florida few insurance contracts insure sink holes that are a real material risk. My deductible for hurricane is $30k. My dog being a German Shepherd is not insured. I just need the tails hedged and that is what I pay for. Mike | |||
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The right math is Value of insured items * probability of loss = expected loss An insurance company spreads the risk over numerous events/policies and has the law of large number. An insurance company is also risk neutral - so it only looks at expected loss over large number of policies. Individuals - even macho dangerous game African hunters are risk averse. They also don’t do the work or it’s cost prohibitive or beyond their scope to observe the probability of loss as they are not under writing insurance. So for them it is pay $150 or $300 to insure a $30k gun. When the expected loss could be $10. It’s all about how risk averse one is. Stone creek observation is people get risk averse about traveling with guns but not other things in life. Welcome to the beauty of dealing with primates - humans are not rational and real and perceived risk aversion plays a big part. Mike | |||
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Wow, one can tell who actually understands the risks of traveling to and moving though Africa and who doesn't. For more than 25 years of traveling to and living in Africa, I have lost count of the number of folks who have had bags, valuables, equipment and/or firearms stolen at airports, hotels, vehicles, and camps. And with the risk of violence and crime only rising on the African continent, it only makes sense to protect yourself and equipment with insurance. I find it odd that some folks believe that emergency medical evac insurance or trip insurance is a good buy, but investing a few additional bucks for gun insurance is a terrible idea. Some folks need to go back to logic school. I suppose if one goes to malaria country it's also good idea to save all that money on prophylaxis medication and just roll the dice. Insurance of any kind is a complete and total waste of money... until you need it. ___________________ Just Remember, We ALL Told You So. | |||
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I retired from 31 years working for one of the largest major international airlines in the world! Tell me again that things of real value don't disappear, to never be found! …………………………………………………………... ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith | |||
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