First time to Africa, and first time international with my own gun.
Are there any other Canadian members who could possible give me a "heads-up" on what forms are necessary? I was hoping for the shortest possible route, but unfortunately I have a 14 hour layover in Amsterdam. Will my gun be booked straight through, or will I have to take possesion of it in Amsterdam?
The wife and I will be flying KLM, leaving June 4, so I really have to get straightened out on all the gun travel "must-haves"!

Amsterdam in transit will require a firearm permit from the Dutch police. You’d be better avoiding holland altogether in my opinion if travelling with guns.

Why not book with qatar whom are good with guns and fly straight into Windhoek from Doha..

Cheers Nick

The options I had for flight out of our area were Heathrow, Amsterdam and Frankfurt. Frankfurt didnt work out for the schedulling and I'd heard horror stories about getting guns through the UK.
The flight is already booked, so changing up is not an option.

Jimmy j,
This is the Canadian official that I deal with. He will send you the Temporary Export Forms for the Canadian side. He is very helpful.

Serge.Laurier@international.gc.ca

You need to have Temporary Import forms for Africa. I use an agent for that, my guest house, Africa Sky. It's about $150 USD I think.( I have done it myself several times too.)

We go through Heathrow, (six times.) Never any problem. The complaints seem to come from American.
Your airline will tell you if your guns go straight through.
Also they will give you the rule of the air.

We are in Kamloops. BC. Born and raised in Calgary.

Please feel free to contact me. wbriangallup@gmail.com
I will be happy to help. Brian Gallup

PS. I am old enough to remember the pheasant hunting in southern Alberta before the mercury poisoning in the early 70's. It was awesome.

Jimmy
I’d take Brian’s advice and email him as he’s done it before from Canada.My concern is your route will involve Amsterdam, which will need the Dutch transit permit for the Firearm, and If you go via Johannesberg
Then you may need to do the SAPS520 over there.
You leave in 3 weeks, you really haven’t much time to get organised!!!
I’d be onto this right away!!

Good luck...

Nick

Jimmy, You may be out of time. Please think about using you ph's rifle. I have done that twice and some of them have decent rifles.
It sure makes things simple and you may save a few hundred dollars.

( North Americans think that big calibre's/rifles are required for African Plains Game.. Not true. You can kill everything in Namibia with a good bullet and placement using a 243. My 9 year old grandson will be hunting all but the big plains game this year with a single shot 30-30 and 100 grain CEB Raptor bullets. You will get lots of 200-230 yd shots even in Namibia.)

You Do need a prior permission to transit Amsterdam/Schipol with firearms.
KLM fly direct to Windhoek via Luanda (Angola)
Clearing a firearm into Namibia is a doddle. It shouldn’t take you more than 10 minutes.
Just back from Namibia,had a great ten days and looking forward to next year already.

I fly Calgary to Frankfurt or London with Air Canada, then to Johannesburg with South African Air then on to Windhoek, after a 2-3 hour lay over. This year I may try Frankfurt to Windhoek with Air Namibia if they have a baggage handling agreement. I but my firearms on the plane in Grande Prairie and pick them up in Windhoek. Word of advise try not to arrive in Windhoek on a Sunday as the police numbers are half of a the other days, you have to look for a officer

May I ask if there is some problem with Canadians flying to Dulles in Washington DC and then direct flight from there to Joburg on SAA. I am guessing there is, or there's be no need to fly to and through Europe.

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Originally posted by tysue:
May I ask if there is some problem with Canadians flying to Dulles in Washington DC and then direct flight from there to Joburg on SAA. I am guessing there is, or there's be no need to fly to and through Europe.

only BATF and the permit requirement ...

I need to look into that. If transiting through, and baggage going to be just transferred, didn't know there'd be a problem. Thanks for the update.

Going through Hethrow or Frankfurt only require the Canadian export permit and the Namibian import permit. Going through Amsterdam requires a special permit there. It’s not hard to do but required. No broadheads or folding knives in your luggage through Amsterdam either. They will be seized even if luggage remains in transit. Depending on what happens with your baggage in Jo’Burg, you may need to clear and permit them here as well.

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Originally posted by tysue:
May I ask if there is some problem with Canadians flying to Dulles in Washington DC and then direct flight from there to Joburg on SAA. I am guessing there is, or there's be no need to fly to and through Europe.

If guns remain in transit no ATF permit is required.

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Originally posted by sheephunterab:

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Originally posted by tysue:
May I ask if there is some problem with Canadians flying to Dulles in Washington DC and then direct flight from there to Joburg on SAA. I am guessing there is, or there's be no need to fly to and through Europe.

If guns remain in transit no ATF permit is required.

always plan for the worst ... if you need for any reasons to pick them up ...