Dean thats a proper shipping package. Strong inner tube with additional outside box. Air space between the two isolates the inner pack & gun from knocks and bumps. Anything less is not properly packed.
Better to spend on the packing and weight/measure based freight than buy insurance thats not going to pay a damage claim. Key point the gun is not functional without the barrels and they are impossible to replace.
Manufacturers of most consumer products don't insure at all, loss rate fairly low, they just ship another and absorb the loss. Keeping careful records cost of loss vs cost of adequate packing & insurance. Thats the environment we ship collectable guns, different equation than the norm.
William
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