Thread: Flying Domestic with a rifle and ammo

Originally Posted by 25/08IMP

I flew from north to south last year and phoned air nz to get the run down. So they tell me rifle in locked case bolt out and ammo in checked bag separate and no more than 5kg so I thought easy.
Traveled down ok then on the return checked rifle in and just before boarding got a call return to check in.
They got me to place a lock on my bag as I had ammo in there.
Ok took a lock off my gun case and locked it as it had 2 locks.
Then another call as I'm about to board you have a bag of ammo in your case as well as ammo in a hard case and this is not allowed please remove it and we will distroy it.
About now I'm getting pissed off so out comes the ammo that's not in a plastic hard cases of which they then take away and dump. And the worst of it is I phoned Auckland Air NZ twice to check I was doing the Wright thing.
So put your ammo in a plastic hard container.

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I'm flying with AirNZ and all my ammo is in little 20 round cardboard boxes that they came in, the last thing I want is for them to take it off me and dump it! Could I just take a snap lock container and put all the ammo in their original packaging into the snap lock containers?


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