Update on FEDEX and my dented 32" barrel..

[Opening Day]

Originally Posted by Stan Hillis

Many years go I saw a $500 gun for sale online at McDonald's Gunshop in Australia. I called and struck a deal on the I. Hollis SLNE. He verified it as pre-1898 and sent it to me USPS. When it arrived in a flimsy cardboard box I opened the box to find that the gun was wrapped in several layers of newspaper, with a little more stuffed in around it. Not a scratch on the beautiful English walnut, or the metal. He hadn't even insured it.

Sometimes you just get lucky.

SRH

You should have played the Lotto that day !

[Jerry VanHorn]

End of Story...Breck talked to FEDEX again. They pretty much told him to pound sand....so..I guess it's over. The barrels were stripped and reblued after the dent was raised. Breck says they are perfect..Moral.?? Don't use fedex..and OVERPACK your items..

[Harold Pickens]

I like to ship my guns in this old beat-up leg of mutton case and then inside a cardboard box. Luckily no trouble so far have always used USPS. The case will hold up to 30 inch barrels.

[Dean Romig]

I wasn't able to get out and buy a triangular corrugated shipping box so I built a wooden one like I do when I ship guns.

Sent it a few days ago and the barrels arrived yesterday safe and sound.

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[Big D]

Can't imagine what the shipping costs would be for that vault

[Dean Romig]

With insurance for $6k the shipping was $86

If the barrels were lost, destroyed or stolen the gun they belong to would be next to worthless. I feel justified.





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[Big D]

It's a shame you have to go to those lengths to ship things

[Dean Romig]

It's just the way things are these days. And I simply chose to do it this way rather than possibly being a victim to the times.





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[William Davis]

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

[Dean Romig]

I reminded myself after the fact that I didn't need to buy the insurance because all of my guns and parts of my guns are covered under my Eastern policy..... oh well, I'll know better next time... I hope.





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