Thread: Flying Domestic with a rifle and ammo

Originally Posted by stug

The ammo doesn't have to be in original factory package. That was the arguement I had with them. The check in guy insisted it had to be in factory packaging. Mine wasn't ( I don't even have any factory ammo), I sent the rifle and ammo back home with my wife.
I rang Air NZ when I got to Wellington and complained. They agreed it didn't have to be in factory packaging, and apologised. I said I'm about to go on a 7 day hunt. What are you going to do about it? So they sent a taxi 1 hour to my house to pick up rifle and ammo, then put it on a later flight.

that would have been stressful looking down the barrel of a 7 day tramp!