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01-30-2023, 08:56 PM | #3 | ||||||
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must be the same pin head that broke a d grade 10 ga parker for me a few years ago....it took some doing to break the stock on this gun....I know your friends pain over this....charlie
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01-30-2023, 09:22 PM | #4 | ||||||
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I'm sure the box was cardboard. He says it was a "heavy doubled box". I suggested that he start shipping these in two containers, the barrel in a well padded 6" pc of ABS pipe, the stock in a v thick 3-4 layered and well padded box. Without the barrel the stock wouldn't be heavy enough to break if they tossed it around. I got a 10ga damascus hammer gun shipped that way from Canada some years back. Bbls came in a cardboard tube, the stock in a cardboard box. His reasoning then was, I think, that no one would bother to steal half a gun. You could also ship this Mauser broken down in one v well padded and heavy duty box.
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01-30-2023, 09:42 PM | #5 | ||||||
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Not letting UPS off the hook by any means, but that is some poor wood selection by the original builder, IMO. I'd never stock anything with grain like that.
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01-31-2023, 10:04 AM | #6 | ||||||
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I always ship in a metal gun case, had no problems that way so far, but you never know, I even put "Fragile" tape all over it. Gary
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01-31-2023, 10:25 AM | #7 | ||||||
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USPS UPS FED EX to different degrees the same. Distribution systems are mechanical, conveyor forklift etc. Depending on which carrier subcontractors likely to be the ones handling the box,
Only defense is good packing. Short box, gun dismantled, hard inner box, larger outer box. If it’s expensive inner box metal, at a minimum inner plastic.. William |
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01-31-2023, 11:51 AM | #8 | ||||||
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i ship fragile wooden sculpture all over the country and the world. i believe in the "eggshell" theory of packing. i hard mount the sculpture in a wooden crate with no padding....then put that crate in another very heavily padded container...either wood or cardboard depending on size. i think in this case the cardboard might of actually been better as it would absorb some of the blow.
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01-31-2023, 04:05 PM | #9 | ||||||
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I once had a Midas grade 20ga Browning delivered by Fed Ex with tire marks on the box. They drove over it with a fork truck. You have to realize these shippers can tear up a steel ball with a rubber hammer. Pack accordingly.
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02-04-2023, 10:18 AM | #10 | ||||||
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Every buyers worst nightmare. At least it looks repairable.
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