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Can you take a takedown gun on your carry on or do you have to ship it in checked bagage? | ||
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You cannpot bring a firearm into the cabin. It must be checked as baggage. Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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Ditto for the ammo. _________________________________ AR, where the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history become the nattering nabobs of negativisim. | |||
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Mate don't want to sound rude but hey think about it !! Cheers lapua | |||
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duh | |||
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are you making a joke? realy? you are asking if you can take a gun onto a comercial flight in the cabin with you? come on realy? whats the punch line? / VERITAS ODIUM PARIT | |||
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Hey Fella's I'm sorry I'm so dumb about this. I have never flown commercial airlines before and just did not know. Please forgive me for my ignorance. | |||
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I think you're best bet is to stay home. With that kind of naivit'e you are headed for nothing but trouble. | |||
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ok if you are serious. no you cant take any kind of ammo gun weapon or any thing else that can be considered a weapon like fingernail clippers, chopsticks or a plastic fork. if you attempt to board a plane with or even joke about having firearms, rifles, bombs, knives, mace, clubs,ammo, or anything that the fuckwits at the airport think looks like a weapon. shampoo any flamable or un drinkable liquids over a given weight or just a particularly bad case of b.o. you will not board a plain and will likely go to jail right then and there. look on the t.s.a. web site or on the airline website they will link you to the HUGE AND I MEAN FING HUGE list of rules some good some b.s. VERITAS ODIUM PARIT | |||
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Thanks Crusher I appreciate the info. Sh#$$%t I wish I had not even asked this question. | |||
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If you have truly NEVER flown on a commercial airline, there is no way you would really know the rules with any degree of certainty. Don't worry about the initial reaction - I would venture to say not many of us know anyone who has not flown commercial. Take a close look at the TSA rules, and also look on the website of the airline you are planning to fly. LOTS of rules. And unfortunately, lots of misunderstanding of the rules out there. SCI Life Member DSC Life Member | |||
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Thanks Jim The only planes I have ever been in is sailplanes which I love to fly. | |||
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there are no stupid questions. if you dont know you dont know. I realy thought you were shitting me but hey no big deal you now have a place to start to find the info you need. good luck to you.  VERITAS ODIUM PARIT | |||
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WA: Usually, things go surprisingly smoothly with checking firearms at most airports, most of the time. Sometimes you get TSA or airline people that don't know the rules though, so take a copy to show them if necessary. On your particular airline's website you can find its rules; same with TSA. Basically, you put the ammunition (no more than 11 pounds) in its original boxes in one checked bag. Your rifle(s) go in another locked case. Get a really strong case because it will get thrown around. You walk up to the airline counter to check your bags and get the boarding passes and say "I am declaring a firearm" to the airline representative. You sign a little orange tag that says the firearm is unloaded and open the rifle case and put the tag in it. Then you relock the case and walk it over to TSA to the x-ray machines. Sometimes TSA opens the case and pokes around and sometimes they don't. You stay and watch to make sure TSA relocks the case if they opened it. That's about it. In your rifle case you might put in a copy of the US Customs form as well; I think it's Form 4457 for proof of ownership. Given how much trouble it is to carry liquids on a plane these days and the way TSA searches old ladies and little girls, firearms and ammunition are surprisingly easy to travel with if you follow the rules. If you are going to South Africa, it takes a while to process the paperwork in the airport police station, but as long as you have filled out the SAP 520 correctly and have all the other required paperwork, it really isn't that bad. You can hire companies that do most all the documents for you and escort you through the airport. As for taking a rifle on to Zimbabwe, that's pretty smooth too. Paul Smith SCI Life Member NRA Life Member DSC Member Life Member of the "I Can't Wait to Get Back to Africa" Club DRSS I had the privilege to fire E. Hemingway's WR .577NE, E. Keith's WR .470NE, & F. Jamieson's WJJ .500 Jeffery I strongly recommend avoidance of "The Zambezi Safari & Travel Co., Ltd." and "Pisces Sportfishing-Cabo San Lucas" "A failed policy of national defense is its own punishment" Otto von Bismarck | |||
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PSmith thanks for the great info. I have a Tuffpack with the cloth sack that goes inside I can use. | |||
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WA: What country is your hunting destination and what are you hunting for? Good luck! Paul Smith SCI Life Member NRA Life Member DSC Member Life Member of the "I Can't Wait to Get Back to Africa" Club DRSS I had the privilege to fire E. Hemingway's WR .577NE, E. Keith's WR .470NE, & F. Jamieson's WJJ .500 Jeffery I strongly recommend avoidance of "The Zambezi Safari & Travel Co., Ltd." and "Pisces Sportfishing-Cabo San Lucas" "A failed policy of national defense is its own punishment" Otto von Bismarck | |||
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