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Make sure your rifle is in a hard case that is locked. Crappy tire cases do work, along with a padlock. The rifle should also have a trigger lock on it. (Don't bother with GBB's though. IMO its too risky having a pressurized mag anywhere in your luggage.) Carry your bb's and batteries and devices in your luggage. Not your carryon. Things got kinda embarrasing when I forgot I had a surefire flashlight pressure switch still inside my carryone backpack. The x-ray techs got really antsy when it showed up.
They'll make you sign an affidavit stating that there is no ammunition in the gun case, and that the gun is unloaded.
Sometimes they'll ask you to open the case, sometimes they won't.
Do NOT lose your copy...you may be asked to show this to the captain or airline attendants. I had an issue where they gave me the wrong copy, and when the captain was checking his manifest, it appeared that I was carrying a gun on my person instead of in the cargo hold.
I've flown on both Westjet and Aircanada with no problems.
If any of this worries you, mail it ahead of time.
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It doesn't seem much, to stir a man's soul. Just a moth eaten rag on a worm eaten pole. But 'tis the deeds that were done 'neath this moth eaten rag, when the pole was a staff, and the rag was a flag.
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