- Location
- Nova Scotia for now
So I have just purchased a firearm (rem 7600 in .35 Whelen) as a gift for my father. I am in NS and He is in northern BC. What do you guys think is the best way to ship it to him?
Shipping a firearm
- Thread starter Lingard441
- Start date
Canada post
see the link for all the info you need
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=244378
see the link for all the info you need
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=244378
- Location
- Saskatchewan coastline
Canada Post is the cheapest like mentioned by all above, but the best method is to MAKE the time to deliver it in person and spend some time together (Maybe a hunt, target shooting or do some fishing) while time permits!
Forget the link posted... having a secure locking device is not required for shipping...
Pack it securely, unloaded and no ammo with it - the original manufacturers box with added padding works well. Wrap it in plain paper and address it legibly.
Send it cheapest parcel post signature required. Add insurance if you wish. I never add insurance, I just use the included $100. Never had a problem with Canada Post. Been shipping this way for a long time.
Canada post regular shipment, insured for the value he paid with signature is the only way. Make sure they give you the tracking number and you keep the slip.
Now from my experiences if it is going through Ontario which it is Box it so a tank can run over it. Mine I make sure the action is closed and secure and the trigger lock removed.
Wrap the gun in blue paper towel, then bubble wrap. Place in box factory if you hjave it and secure. Then placed in second box over that one or wrap with a second layer of card board. Wrap in plain brown paper and tape the entire package all over with clear packing tape. Ask any member I sold to here in the past year their gun arrived safely saved a few times to my over packing. You cannot put too much packing on a gun that canada post is going to handle believe me. take care
Not worth rolling the dice with a members purchase not to insure it for what they pay. Not saying you are not going to have a battle collecting from canada post but not putting it on unless the buyer agrees is going to be a court case eventually for you. Just one man's opinion which has received three damaged in the past 18 months.
- Location
- Ft. Mac. Alberta
Every new rifle r shotgun I have purchased has come in a box in the mail, with a trigger lock in a separate package along with the bolt or chokes.
Every rifle or shotgun I have sent I shipped in a box in two pieces to do like supercub suggested.
Cat
Every rifle or shotgun I have sent I shipped in a box in two pieces to do like supercub suggested.
Cat
Cat ???? Two seperate shipments or box with trigger lock etc in gun box??
I have never seen the choke tubes etc sent seperately
Mount Sweetness
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Southern Ontario
should cost around $30
ns to bc my est 45 insured
Register with Canada Post's VentureOne.
Expedited shipping for the cost of regular minus 5%.
$100.00 insurance included.
I also make boxes with 1 x 4's and plywood. It may be a little heavier but after a certain point the extra is "invenerial". Nailed on one side and screwed on the other. Cover the edges with tape - CP employees don't like slivers any more than I do.
One buyer said he had $3000.00 rifles shipped in cardboard but never had he received a box like this - "I'm keeping it"! With a box like this $100.00 insurance is enough.
Expedited shipping for the cost of regular minus 5%.
$100.00 insurance included.
I also make boxes with 1 x 4's and plywood. It may be a little heavier but after a certain point the extra is "invenerial". Nailed on one side and screwed on the other. Cover the edges with tape - CP employees don't like slivers any more than I do.
One buyer said he had $3000.00 rifles shipped in cardboard but never had he received a box like this - "I'm keeping it"! With a box like this $100.00 insurance is enough.
The plywood box is great but not for a guy like me that ships over 50 min a year I would be making boxes all year long
I have shipped a rifle to northern BC in the past. It took a little over a week with Canada Post and cost $35 or so with insurance. I wrapped newspaper around the rifle to protect it and used crumpled newspaper to fill in the box. I also wrapped that clear packing tape all around the outside of the box to strengthen it.
It arrived in good condition.
It arrived in good condition.
stevey3737
Regular
- Location
- Southern Interior
I always ship in cardboard box as well and always get a signature but as far as shipping insurance?! I know this particular time it is a gift but unless the buyer wants it insured and wants to pay for the insurance its going expidited sig/ and the basic 100 dollar allowed insurance, I have had people and i have done it myself try to get the best possible deal on the gun with shipping included and how could you than expect it to be shipped with extra insurance and all the expensive niceties?
I save bubble wrap and foam wrap from other purchases in a garbage bag in the basement. If I have no factory box (usually), I go to the lighting store - they often have boxes the right shape/length. No lock, no separate bolt etc... - the way they always arrive when ordered new.
Insurance - I wondered about that - always a struggle with expensive guns especially. I just shipped a 3K shotgun (in factory break-down case, bubble wrap, then cardboard and insured it - it added 54$ to the 21$ shipping cost! OUCH - put me just under 90$ after tax! I kinda regretted it after I had taken the plunge, but I guess I'd regret it more if it got lost or if something went wrong...
-DW
Insurance - I wondered about that - always a struggle with expensive guns especially. I just shipped a 3K shotgun (in factory break-down case, bubble wrap, then cardboard and insured it - it added 54$ to the 21$ shipping cost! OUCH - put me just under 90$ after tax! I kinda regretted it after I had taken the plunge, but I guess I'd regret it more if it got lost or if something went wrong...
-DW
