Degasing Rifle For Air Travel

ZERO! and they might make you disassemble parts of it.

Right 0 psi.

“The final decision rests with the TSA officer on whether an item is allowed through the checkpoint”

And you will NOT be able to argue/complain about anything they might say.

They can call for internal inspection to verify no pressure ( 99% will not understand "airgun" tho) & actually need to see inside the tube/bottle.

Do everything right including calling ahead and do print a copy of official regs and place in locked case with your rifle.



Safe travel,

John

Easier to just mail the gun ahead of your trip?

So am I hearing that you can take an airgun on a plane if it is totally degassed? I would think they would make you check it just like a real gun.. no? 

Get a very good quality rigid case and check it like a regular gun. Even tell them it is a XX caliber gun. Leave out the whole "air rifle" spiel. Keep it simple, the TSA is easily confused and alarmed. Physics is a funny thing. At altitude, the pressure outside of the air tube is 5 PSI, instead of 14.7 PSI, a difference of roughly ten PSI. Or the equivalent of having the air tube at 3010 PSI at sea level, as versus 3000 PSI (differential pressure is all that matters). The bigger risk is seal failure at the extreme cold temperatures found in the belly of the plane at altitude.

@addertooth, good recommendation. Just telling them its a "gun" minimized that blank stare and total lack of understanding that occurs when you say "air rifle". Its MUCH easier to check a firearm than an air rifle. So like addertooth says, I just say "gun" and its easy and painless...Harder to do with bottle guns if they know anything at all about guns, but that rarely happens. Not sure about the "extreme cold", since my checked baggage never has frozen stuff in it after I get it from the baggage claim...