Thread: Guns on a plane?

Originally Posted by JoshC

Mine was domestic. Late into the airport from a hunting trip, threw my rifle and pack into check in, ammo in pack. But it was in my day pack/carry on...I'd flown up from Dunedin with it the same way with no problems...no x-ray screening! Rifle/bolt/ammo all in separate compartments. Anyway, the security lady pinged me and made a big song and dance, but after apologising numerous times and trying to explain I was just out of the bush, was tired and had made an honest mistake, I was getting nowhere. In the end I started getting pissed off with her, trying to explain a rifle bolt is a useless piece of equipment without the rifle and ammunition, but that didn't help. In the end a male security guard stepped in and offered to just put my backpack down in the baggage compartment himself, and said to me while we were walking to the plane, "Don't worry about her mate, she's a muppet. What's more important is how'd the hunting trip go?" Lol

I was checking in up the sharp end with 2 rifles and 2 bags, all was ok until I walked away from the checkin counter when the checkin lady could see that my cabin bag weighed more that 7kg's and she called me back to weigh it. It weighed about 18kg's so she got me to take stuff out of it and put it in my checked in baggage. While doing this I inadvertently removed a little plastic container which housed my bolts and batteries and placed them in my hand carry, from then on it was all down hill.

The copper was much like your male security man.

Aussie customs is another story, you need your paperwork in order for them.

Originally Posted by 300winmag

I was checking in up the sharp end with 2 rifles and 2 bags, all was ok until I walked away from the checkin counter when the checkin lady could see that my cabin bag weighed more that 7kg's and she called me back to weigh it. It weighed about 18kg's so she got me to take stuff out of it and put it in my checked in baggage. While doing this I inadvertently removed a little plastic container which housed my bolts and batteries and placed them in my hand carry, from then on it was all down hill.

The copper was much like your male security man.

Aussie customs is another story, you need your paperwork in order for them.

19kg is my personal best for carry on. Those steel plates of neckshots are farking heavy!