Aloha all,

Just looking for any current stories/experiences regarding travel with a rifle.    It's been sometime since traveling comm-air with a rifle in-case and wanted to see if any of you have done so lately.   Did a search but most of the threads seem a little dated.   Anyway... I'm on my way to Nevada in a couple months with a couple hour layover in California both going & coming home.   The rifle is definitely NOT Kali legal but, if I understand the regs correctly, as long as it stays with the airlines as checked baggage I'm good (flying United).

Anyone got good gouge on this? I'll be using a Pelican im3100 if that's a factor as well...

TIA & Mahalo 

Boomah

Never flown with United to Vegas but have flown Delta and Hawaiian to Vegas over 10 times with my Pelican 1700 and 1750 with no problems. As long as your rifles are checked all the way to Vegas you are good to go. Try to put as many locks on the case as possible, with my Pelican I can put 4 if I only put 2 the case can still be pried open. Your biggest worry are the dishonest baggage handlers who know what gun cases look like and know how to get to them. Also try to get to baggage claim ASAP because its possible your case will come come out with the regular luggage on the carrousel  and not with the oversized luggage through the baggage office. At baggage claim no one checks claim tickets.and anyone can just grab your case and walk out.

Make sure to check out the Clark County Shooting Complex while you are in Vegas 

I'm actually in California now, and travelled via Hawaiian with a few pistols and a rifle. As I understood it, if your case has 4 locking points it needs 4 locks not just 2. My pistols were inside a locked pelican case, inside my checked bag. The rifle and its pelican case was checked on its own. The rifle case was brought out in the oversized luggage area, fortunately I was waiting when it was brought out. Along with the pistols and rifle, I travelled with ammo too. Just make sure everything is secured and declared. Again this was with hawaiian, United may be different.

I track my checked firearms with this thing.
http://www.pocketfinder.com/
you can program it to check in at certain intervals, turn off transmission (when in flight) etc. It uses GSM and/or GPS sats so signal may be spotty.
THere are other products out there but thats the only one I have experience with (customer service sucks though).

Big mahalo for the intel gents! Will definitely be shooting at the Clark County complex 

Ahui hou 

Boomah