Important Information and Ideas for Sellers and Buyers of Airguns

[Peashooter]

I am amazed anyone are brave enough to ship a precision instrument in a cardboard box.
I drove half way across the granted small country, to pick up the Vulcan 3 i had gotten at the shop, i simply can not trust any shipping company even if its only to this very day and a few before i actually had shipping problems ( with a order of ammo from krale )

 

[cavedweller]

A new $ 40 cheapy gun case from anywhere goes along way to prevent alot of the damaged airguns. There are super narrow ones to be had that fir quite well in shipping boxes. You can also get good boxes from sporting goods stores that those cases will fit in. Thats some horrible damage in those pictures. Sad...

Daystate made a custom fit gun case for their Wolverine Sapphire BUT failed to provide adequate protection to prevent shifting - resulting in a loss of a $3200. Airgun, because it rode on the muzzle end with less than 1” of closed cell foam in front. That wore through quickly and the first ape to drop it nose down deformed the shroud and ooooh well. So as nice as a hard case is to prevent side wall damage the gun must be packed to prevent either end from shifting - they have to be secured in the middle.

 

[Peashooter]

Yeah in some cases, you cant even ship a rifle in a 1/2 ton gun safe, and have it arrive in one piece.
As many a doorbell camera and CCTV camera have also documented, the skill and care of many a delivery driver are very low.

 

[beerthief]

I pass on a lot of guns because of shipping . I have even thought of shipping my own hard case with 1/4 inch ply wood slid inside the cardboard box to the seller . but then thought "if the seller just puts the gun loose in the case like i received one gun " Gave up shipping .

 

[AirNGasman]

Daystate made a custom fit gun case for their Wolverine Sapphire BUT failed to provide adequate protection to prevent shifting - resulting in a loss of a $3200. Airgun, because it rode on the muzzle end with less than 1” of closed cell foam in front. That wore through quickly and the first ape to drop it nose down deformed the shroud and ooooh well. So as nice as a hard case is to prevent side wall damage the gun must be packed to prevent either end from shifting - they have to be secured in the middle.

Those Daystate and Brocock custom-fitted Styrofoam-lined boxes INSIDE A WELL-FITTING SECOND CARDBOARD SLEEVE are the best-bang-for-the-buck factory packaging I've seen. Unfortunately the less than 1” of closed cell foam in front of the muzzle is the weak link. And apparently the more incompetent the shipping-company delivery-driver, the better his (or her) nose becomes for sniffing out weak links in packaging.

I've received air pistols damaged in shipping that were shipped in FOAM-LINED HARD-PLASTIC GUN CASES inside a cardboard box sleeve that the muzzle blew right through the end of ALL that packaging when an ape dropped it end-first onto pavement. Yes, the seller is a lawyer. And yes, when I attempted to educate him how to properly package to avoid damage he cut me off with proclamations about how well he packages. He then put the pistol inside a soft-cloth sleeve inside the otherwise would've-been-adequate-packaging; thereby rendering the otherwise would've-been-adequate-packaging totally ineffective.

When I have the correct Daystate or Brocock packaging for a gun I'm shipping, I use it... but always reinforce the weak link enough to make it no longer a weak link (that apes can smell as easily as they can burning cannibis).

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