Does anyone know definitely whether you can travel on the airlines with the small dry hand warmers in your checked luggage? I am not talking about the kind that you put fuel in. Just the kind you open and shake up.

I can find nothing on the TSA website.

Thanks Sprig

I was in Manitoba last month & had a pile of the hand warmers in my check luggage with no problems, also brought some last year to Alberta with no problems.

Just make sure you take your scent away spray out of your carry on, I forgot & they took it

Sheshazo, thannks for the reply. Sprig

Yeah, you have to be careful of that deodorant and shampoo. It's dangerous stuff!

I once watched airport security going over a kid that was obviously on his way home from some bush camp in the Arctic. They completely overlooked the fact that his battered blue tin suitcase was tied securely shut with a half dozen wraps of Primacord.

Tumbleweed,

These people are not high-speed, low-drag types.

They would not recognize it if it coiled around their legs.

jim

What all of us travellers need to keep in mind is that most of the security/airline folk barely graduated grade 10 and can speak english. Hence not the swiftest folk around.

My father travelled to Newfoundland hunting moose with his lever action gun. He had placed a cable lock device on it for security. The airline and security were perplexed in that he didn't have a trigger lock on the gun, and proceeded to tell him that he can not take a firearm on an airplane without one!

I'm waiting on a call back from Louisville TSA to get a ruling on the hand warmers. I'm going to Saskatoon on Sunday.

While viewing the TSA site I saw this:

# You must securely pack any ammunition in fiber (such as cardboard), wood or metal boxes or other packaging that is specifically designed to carry small amounts of ammunition.
# You can’t use firearm magazines/clips for packing ammunition unless they completely and securely enclose the ammunition (e.g., by securely covering the exposed portions of the magazine or by securely placing the magazine in a pouch, holder, holster or lanyard).
# You may carry the ammunition in the same hard-sided case as the firearm, as long as you pack it as described above.

Says you CAN put ammo in the guncase????? Not what I was told at all!!!

Any idea?

JIM

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You may carry the ammunition in the same hard-sided case as the firearm, as long as you pack it as described above. Says you CAN put ammo in the guncase????? Not what I was told at all!!! Any idea?

Although TSA regs say this, the airlines may have different rules, and you'd need to check this. I traveled twice to Canada in the last three months, and both Air Canada and United asked at the check-in desk if the ammo was separate (not sure what their policy is). And this is the problem, interpretation varies from one person to another, including the TSA folks. So the easiest solution is to just pack it separate, and chances are they won't even look at it. But do tell them you have ammo, as they will label the bag and you will likely find a "searched by TSA" note in the suitcase upon arrival. Good luck, and I wouldn't worry to hard about any of this.

Canadian North will require you pack your ammo in a separate "checked" bag from that of your rifle as well as require it to have bolt removed but can stay with rifle. Northwest Air allowed ammo in gun case and bolt in rifle.

As stated above to be sure take the bolt and but leave it with rifle and put ammo in separate checked bag and you are good to go.

They will find something however. For me they confiscated a small vial of Rem Oil from my checked baggage.

Most of all try to have fun!

Why not just buy the handarmers when you et here, they are available in every Canadian tire or Walmart store.