Traveling With Firearms
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This episode covers the ABC's of flying with guns. From what type of case is best, to how to pack your firearms and ammo, to how to check in with your airline, we detail the process.
We cover domestic flights compared to international travel, discuss the legality of flying with a suppressor, suggest research and prep documentation, and so forth.
Flying with a firearm is quite a simple process, but can seem daunting to first-timers. It doesn't need to be, though! This guide should provide the information you need to fly with confidence. ENJOY!
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| 0:00.0 | Traveling with guns, is it |
| 0:03.7 | is it possible? Of course it's possible. Is it |
| 0:07.3 | hmm logical and practical and should you be |
| 0:11.8 | proficient at doing so? |
| 0:15.0 | Well, yes, as a matter of fact you should and there are a lot of reasons why, but the simplest one is if you're not willing to fly with your firearms you're going to limit |
| 0:26.4 | the potential adventures that you as a hunter can take not just in the United States but around |
| 0:32.1 | the world. |
| 0:33.0 | And so it's a skill that you should learn. |
| 0:37.0 | You don't really have to perfect it, right? |
| 0:39.0 | It takes a lot of flying to perfect flying with farms |
| 0:42.0 | and since regulations change on |
| 0:44.0 | occasion you have to be adaptable. That's the skill that you want to learn and |
| 0:49.0 | polish is the ability to be adaptable, change with new regulations, new people at different airports |
| 0:59.6 | and locations and just learn to work with it, right? |
| 1:02.4 | As long as you're flexible and you're able to maintain a polite and cheerful demeanor |
| 1:06.9 | almost any |
| 1:09.5 | Situation that you can encounter while traveling with firearms can be overcome. |
| 1:14.0 | As long as it's not something that you've totally whiffed overseas where you require |
| 1:20.0 | some kind of a transport import export type license and you don't have it right that can be a little more problematic but do your due diligence you'll be fun so |
| 1:31.2 | the take away from that little spiel is traveling with guns is something you |
| 1:35.9 | should not be afraid of. Okay. Now we're going to define this task, this traveling with firearms issue here in just a minute but before we do that I |
| 1:48.0 | would like to just give a shout out to the several Patreon members of the backcountry hunting podcast |
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