Check it on the airline or mail it?

[Little Dave]

Flights from Texas, okay to check because they seem to respect hunting equipment more.  Seems like outbound from SeaTac not so much.  Shipping a bow ahead to Arkansas from here, somebody tried to pry open the bow case and pull stuff out.  Eventually, UPS agreed to replace my bow case.

[mjgentile]

I mailed a bow to friend in Michigan cost over 60.
I fly with my bow to Oklahoma City, on United, cost me 25 for second bag.
I have a TSA approved case, only thing extra I did was buy some good gun foam to stop a rattling

[Todd_ID]

I'm glad to hear that the concensus is to take it on the airplane because the time has passed for me to mail it: I'm leaving on Tuesday for Worlds.  I'm hoping that the connecting baggage guys do good for me because I'm going on a circuitous route: Lewiston, ID-Seattle, WA-Atlanta, GA-Buffalo, NY and back the same way.

[archery288]

If it's a bow I would just check  it.. I like knowing where my belongings are.. Somewhere on here is the article I wrote in Eastmans bowhunting Journal last year about flying with your bow / rifles / belongings etc.. Take a look at it and hopefully that will be some good insight.. 

That's ironic, I might get to hunt with one of the Eastmans on this trip.

Turns out though, I may have a connecting flight  Better to mail for sure now?

I would still fly with it personally.. I had several connecting flights last year when I went on the caribou hunt with Cameron Hanes in Quebec..  I went from here to Denver where I met up with Cam.. Then from there to Montreal.. And then the next morning from there to Kujjuaq.. I never had any issues with it and I just like to know where my stuff is at all times.. If you take two bows like I do, I will put one in my Badlands Terra Glide and one in a bow case.. Arrows and releases and all accessories in both to be safe.. The odds of loosing two bags are slim to none.. But the odds of loosing a bad period are slim.. In the mail its easy to lose stuff, happens all the time.. One number or letter can change the whole place it gets shipped.. Just my  on this...