Does anyone have any experience collecting for the full insured amount (= to total value of gun) when only barrels are damaged or lost? It would seem to me that would greatly complicate an already complicated process. I have pondered this when shipping a rifle bolt that is likely irreplaceable and really leaves only salvage value for the bbl and stock if the bolt is lost. It seems that insuring for full value of the gun in either case is really an attempt to insure for ancillary value and I question how the shipper would treat such a claim.

I have in the past ,shipping barells only, have insured
For the value of the gun. I sent of some 20 ga dhe
Barrels and it was 40 each way insurance .
Well I called Eastern ins and they said their insurance
Covered my guns both ways. So no claims but I
Just about pay the 300 plus premium out of insurance
Savings

THATS WHAT THEY SAID, BUT COLLECTING MAY BE ANOTHER MATTER

Ups broke my pvc pipe in half but did not damage barrels??? That's when I started shipping usps. I would use the thick pvc schedule 80 anyway.

And I put the pvc tube inside a triangular shipping box.

I my experience, anything that looks like you're trying to protect the contents is taken as a challenge by some of the gorillas handling it.





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Broke the PVC??? :shock: I was considering a 4" diameter, thick-walled PVC pipe that is only 36" long to be indestructible. Breaking it suggests, to me, specific and malicious intent. Dean's suggestion is well worth the extra expense.

I can attest to Claims handled by Eastern Insurance. The say what they will do and Do what they say. First class all the way.

Just signed up for the Eastern plan; have had the paperwork on my deck for a while but just hadn't done it. What the insurance would cost through USPS will pay 1/3 of the yearly premium. Just wish I'd done it before I shipped and insured a couple guns this past summer; with what I spent for insurance on those I would have paid the whole premium by now :cuss:!

Shipping after Christmas maybe the best insurance of all.

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It surprises me about how many people do not have gun insurance through Eastern or Collectibles or a company like them. Home owners riders are prohibitively expensive and difficult to collect on. Once you have that insurance you do not need nor should you buy carrier insurance. The carriers will fight a claim every step of the way. And if you're shipping a lot of guns, like most of us do, the savings on carrier insurance will pay the premiums as mentioned above. A few years ago I shipped a very expensive Merkel in a hard case for a trigger repair. UPS broke the stock off at the wrist. How? I don't know, but with good photographs of the before and after condition of the gun Collectibles paid the claim with no questions asked. You must have good photographs of the gun to help your plight. Beyond the advantages of shipping insurance just having some type of insurance on your collection is a must. People who don't have a good policy have a giant hole in the protection of their assets. A home owners policy will only cover about $3,500. In a lot of cases that's not even one gun. A fire or a burglary could cost several hundreds of thousands of dollars with no chance of recovery.

I signed up with Eastern Insurance several years ago. It's probably one of the best things I've done. "if for nothing else a good peace of mind" I haven't had to worry about loss on my guns from fire , burglary, & it's made shipping a lot less stressful. Let alone knowing that the guns are covered when I travel with them whether it's to a gun show, a hunting trip or traveling abroad with one.

I have a good friend who lost a nice model 21 20ga & a Sterlingworth ejector 20ga when flying back from Argentina. The airlines mistakenly put his guns on a flight to Mexico city. He was never able to get his guns back from the Mexican government. If he had an Eastern policy on them he would have at least been compensated financially for the loss.