yelp, I carry spotter and bino’s in carry on and usually wear boots, but have my comfy shoes in carry on.

One thing you cant loose on a hunt is boots.

For anyone traveling with hunting pack and arent using it as a carry on, Kuiu TAKU’s are awesome. My pack is ready to go, just pull out, re-include optics and go

I have only flown with South West. it was no problem. Make sure its unloaded and if you can remove the action if you can.

I just pulled my Badlands pack outa the barn. It still had bits and branches of Alaska in every compartment. It was a martini/impulse buy off Camofire that somebody on here posted. Using it as a carry-on for the Covid-postponed Newfoundland moose hunt coming up. Great pack.
Here's a traveling hack that I read AFTER I'd experienced the incident that began right before take-off of an 18-hour flight to Jo'berg. (Thankfully, the flight attendant ended it fairly quickly.) Always carry a small jar of Vicks Vapor Rub in your carry-on, just in case some of your fellow travelers around you are a family from the Indian sub-continent and, after getting settled...take their shoes off. A dab under each of your nostrils makes it more tolerable.

That is hilarious. I would rub that stuff all over the armrests, back rests, tray tables etc to avoid having to be held hostage by that aroma.

This right here. I would never take any advice from folks here. Do you own research OP.

It’s best to just read this…

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/transporting-firearms-and-ammunition

x2 Ive been pretty luck in my travels havent had to deal with it

You tell ‘em Bobos!!!!

AK Airlines for me too. It also helps that they give a five 70lb luggage authorization for us military guys to get meat home.

Got into to Bangor 4:30 Sunday. Was able to get my firearms the next day. AA. Insert frowny face here.

What, pray tell, are you hunting?

Bars - that’s how they say it up here.

Fly Southwest. I fly several days a week and they've never lost a gun. Check in is easy.

AA - SUCKS. I have family that flies for them and I still hate the company. They lose guns, hate the fact you carry them, etc. On most trips, I encounter gate agents that actively look at the rules to find a way to deny firearms as checked baggage.

As a last resort, FedEx the gun to yourself at the hotel.

I've never had a problem travelling with a boom stick with United or Southwest. Make sure you have a box to put your bullets in. They don't like loose bullets.

My brother came to visit and do a hog hunt. He reloads .45LC and he put a bunch of shells into a sock to transport them. Obviously the TSA had a problem with the sock/box concept, but they offered up a solution at the last minute. They emptied out a box of latex gloves that the TSA uses for search and what have you and poured the shells into the glove box, then taped the hell out of it. All good!

Nice of the TSA to think outside the box, or inside the box, if you will.

This was at O'Hare.

The last two times I flew with guns it was Alaska Airlines. It was quick and easy, and believe it or not, TSA was the quickest part of the whole process. They never even had me open the case.

This is not about any firearm issue, but rather my experience with ammunition. I had booked a red stag hunt in Scotland last year, consequently, I had previously completed the documentation for the TSA Prescreen, and had the TSA PRESCREENING card and documents, and was all ready to go thru the TSA line at the airport. Arrived early at Austin- Bergstrom and British Airways, I went thru the first process with my carry-on bag, but then was pulled aside, right away. Needless to say, I was surprised, especially when my bag was screened again, then placed in a special x-ray machine! To my surprise.....Lo and behold, I had two bullets under the bottom pad in my bag! I had used that same bag, when I went to my lease, to carry my toiletries, socks, etc.,and sometimes when I unload my rifle I will put the loose bullets in that bag! I did not notice the bullets when I packed that bag.

So, after all the alarms went off, and I was screened by hand, and the two bullets were removed from my carry-on, I proceeded to board the plane for a great 12 hour flight, landing in Heathrow. Then after taking the tram over to another terminal still in Heathrow for my flight to Glasgow, I once again had to go thru screening with an additional side screen process again! Apparently, I had been "TAGGED" earlier when I boarded in Austin. Also after the hunt and when I was returning home after the hunt, and because I previously had been TAGGED, I had to go thru the "side screening process" again!

Moral of the story...... check all your baggage before you fly and make sure you don't carry on any ammunition! ! !