Thread: ammunition on national flights

When I travel overseas with firearms and ammo I notify the airline concerned well in advance. It's all in there Dangerous Goods rules and regs on the net.
They reply back with an email approval, I print off a couple of copies and bring them with me to the checkout.
Basically make sure firearms are in locked cases, and ammo in a separate locked container. To save weight all my ammo is lose in plastic clips with no packaging simply so 5kgs of ammo is 5kgs. I weigh the ammo on the cooks kitchen scales before leaving.
Never had a nosey parker want to open my ammo container.
A few years back I inadvertently packed a rifle bolt into my hand carry and some officious prick at the xray screening pulled me aside and got me to open the container, he went off his nut, he called the airport police and every other fucker that needed to know. It all started when I rocked up at Business Class check in and was over weight with 2 x rifles, ammo and gear so I pulled some gear from my check in and placed it into my hand carry. Must admit the Copper was really good about it and didn't have a problem but the young arsehole at Aviation Security had other ideas, he lost his rag when I told him to step on it and get it sorted or else I'll miss my flight.