Stop the Madness!Tips for bowhunters that fly to hunting destinations

– By Bowsite.com

In November I traveled to Saskatchewan to hunt trophy whitetails with Rob Nye of Canadian Trophy Quest. A group of Christian rifle hunters overlapped me by one day. They had all tagged out with deer racks and headed down to Saskatoon to board a United Airlines flight back to the US. When they checked in the ticket agent informed them that United had changed their policy a few days earlier and their antlers were no longer allowed as either checked, or carry-on luggage. The surprised group of hunters scurried around to find a hotel to take their capes and horns then they boarded the United flight; minus their trophies. To say they were upset would be quite an understatement.

While this particular situation did not affect me this time, like many of you I have my share of airline horror stories. Remember my elk hunt from 2006? Northwest Airlines lost my luggage for the first 5 of my 7 day elk hunt at Rhynard Ranch. To add insult to injury, I was treated like crap despite the fact that I was broadcasting the debacle to 20k people every day! But that was nothing compared to the Bowsite visitor who checked his hunting gear to Johannesburg and it showed up a week later – after he returned home!

via www.bowsite.com