Finding rifle-size box?

[chaslavk]

I want sell my rifles as I never shoot them but to ship them via CP got to have a box so where to find rifle size box to package a rifle?

Thank you.

 

[buffdog]

Boxes

You might try one of the local gun shops if you only need a couple. The downside is that these usually have advertising on them indicating a gun is inside.

Go to an appliance store, and get a couple of large sized cardboard cartons and then buy a couple of rolls of duct tape. Measure out the size you need, allowing for the ends. Take a couple of 2x4s, clamp them together where you want to make a corner, and bend the cardboard 90 degrees.

I usually like to double box rifles. The inside box is measured out, and the lines I draw are then cut most of the way through with a razor knife. Then I bend the cardboard backwards away from the lines, and then tape the edges with duct tape. I then make a larger outer box, but do not score the lines with the knife on this one. Duct tape the ends well, duct tape the seam, and wrap duct tape around the box at several places (about 5 does well).
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[Hawkshadow]

There's always the option of buying rifles to get the boxes

"Honest honey, I need the boxes!"

 

[ATOM]

Most every moving company has gun boxes. Corrugated cardboard, worth a couple of bucks.

 

[Alonzo]

The boxes for Florescent light tubes, F40 work awesome...just cut in half, pack with whatever you got, the packing that hold the tubes in place works well. Put the two halves together...takes a bit of effort. Check with your local golf club supplier of driving range, sometime those boxes work well.
Get lots of packing tape, and don't be cheap with it.
The other option is to build your own. Go to a furniture store or Future shop/Visions and get a few refrigerator or big screen tv boxes. Don't tell them what it is for, or make something up...play house for the kids.

 

[MapleSugar]

I just go the nearest gun stores and politely ask for any left over boxes.

I try to get boxes with slots so that I can flip them inside out to keep the advertising inside.

Otherwise, I carefully cut the glue joints with an Exacto blade and use a hot glue gun to bond the joints, after I flip it inside out.

You can always buy a roll of kraft packaging paper to wrap the box with too.

 

[hakx]

I recently bought a weed whacker just for the box.

 

[fugawi]

There's always the option of buying rifles to get the boxes

"Honest honey, I need the boxes!"

LOL! I like that! Probably get slapped upside of the head if I tried it though.

Just pack those rifles well so the muzzle doesn't push through the cardboard.

 

[gaff]

all the moving companies and storage places should have them.

 

[polaris]

I go to the nearest furniture store and take the strongest cartons from their dumpster (you also can find some nice padding material there), and then I make my own boxes.
Works extremely well, just check my feedback for packaging...

 

[Coyote Ugly]

just ship in a wal-mart or cdn tire plastic gun case, comes with a cardboard box too!

 

[NAA]

The cardboard boxes that patio umbrellas come in are usually heavy cardboard & can be cut to fit what ever rifle you want to ship.

NAA.

 

[Nabs]

I have used broom boxes and fluorescent bulb boxes in the past and they work great. You can usually walk into big box stores and ask if they have any of these types of boxes laying around from servicing the store and sometimes you can get lucky.

A few times I have had to tape two boxes together. Not pretty but it worked in a pinch.

I purchased brown wrapping paper from the dollar store to cover up any holes or box markings.

 

[joe n]

This should be stickied Alot of good options here!

 

[fat tony]

Go to any company that uses large amounts of cardboard and ask for some, chances are they will hand you more than you can use.

 

[greyman441]

Look up your local blind store. Tuesday my local blind store throws them out and lets me get a pile of them as they save here a trip to the dumpster. They work perfect and perfect sizes too.

 

[fat tony]

^That does not sound like a very profitable business - esp when ruthless people pay in cash and insist the 20 you gave them was a 50. . .

 

[Woodbeef]

The local UPS Store usually has boxes for golf clubs,they work perfect. If the guns have any value,I'd say spring for the $15-20 plastic gun cases at CT.

 

[fat tony]

Good lord they sent me to work @ a large furniture warehouse today in Burnside. Every day they make a 900 lb block of cardboard in a hydraulic press, and we bundle it up and wheel it away on a lifter. Every day they fill 2 dumpsters with styrofoam, and other assorted packaging materials. The waste is incredible.

 

[Coyote Ugly]

sonatubes from Home Depot/Rona, etc work well too for shipping a rifle.