how much is shipping an airgun (fx impact)

Probably easier to follow this link rather than trust someone who “thinks” or “remembers” the cost.

https://www.theupsstore.com/tools/estimate-shipping-cost

Shipped in the fx case via usps priority, it will run about $57, plus insurance of $25 to $30. I just shipped one today.

Fedex and UPS charges will vary depending on distance you’re shipping, but it will be in a similar range if it’s very far. Will be cheaper if it’s close to you.

I generally run the numbers via USPS Priority and UPS when I sell a gun. Sometimes they are close to the same, majority of times UPS is cheaper.

I ship from home using a personal UPS account. Signing up for one is free. When shipping from home, one can use the UPS discount codes, which you won't get if you just take it to The UPS Store and have them do the shipping. For example, a current UPS discount code is 'easy' and it gets you 10% off. Once you generate the shipment and print the label at home, you can schedule a UPS pick up (costs extra, how much depends on whether you are 'in town' or out in a rural area like me), or you can just drop it off at a UPS Store location (you won't have to pay any of their surcharges if you have already printed and paid for the shipping at home), or any other UPS location. Beware that UPS Store locations generally do not accept 'high value' items (insured for over $1,000), so you will not have that drop-off option.

The UPS main web site has a simple 'Calculate Time and Cost' page, where you just have to put in the to-and-from city & zip code info, box weight, box dimensions and insured value. FX guns are generally a little more to ship since you are also shipping the weight of the hard case, but most air rifles require a longer, larger dimension shipping carton, so you will likely be charged based on 'dimensional weight' as opposed to actual weight. But on the plus side, the guns are very well protected from shipping damage in their hard cases.

Link to UPS Calculate Time and Cost page:

https://wwwapps.ups.com/ctc/request?loc=en_US

Some locations (Hawaii and PR, in my experience) virtually mandate shipping via USPS as UPS gets really expensive to those locations.

I'll tell you my experience, but it's your decision. For the last few years, I have done most of my shipping with USPS, using the click-and-ship option. Print the label, slap it on, and you're good to go. Since insurance has to be purchased at the counter, my shipments have been uninsured. Your risk, your decision on that one. After untold hundreds of dollars spent on insurance, I'm willing to be self-insured at this point. 

You can't upgrade the old guns, with all of the new upgrades, because it was physically impossible, to make it that way, with the type of mods that had to be done to make the M3 the gun that it is. Just look at the second regulator that was added. It had to have a bigger diameter than the old bottle adapter, just to be able to be in existence, so it will not fit the other generations because of the extra machining that is required to be done to the trigger block. The new tuning system is a werq of art but it plainly cannot be fit on an old gun, once again, because of the major machine werq required to the trigger block as well. The new ambidextrous lever action cocking is half an inch shorter and is a wonderful thing. There is often a cascade effect when you change something in a machined part. Change this then that needs changed. Change that and something else needs to be dealt with. It's not some evil ploy to take your money. You can only go so far with an existing framewerq before some major changes must be made. I think they did quite well in keeping things as interchangeable, between the variants for as long as they did. They did even better turning the Impact into the M3 which is a much different and better animal than the original Impact.

Considering doing the same, peve`s me off too. Was a busy year, have owned the mkll for over a year & only shot it one session for 197rds total. I fire it twice once a month just in case it helps internals to be moved once in a while. Do u happen to know if warranty is transferable to new owners?

I strongly recommend shipping your air rifle by UPS! Their prices are equal to or less than the others and they have the best Customer Service in the business, which is something else to consider besides just the cost of shipping your gun...

For example, just two weeks ago a friend in Savannah, Georgia shipped his MKII to me here in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida for me to tune for him. His gun left Savannah and went to Jacksonville and from there it didn't move again. He reported its lack of further progress to UPS and so they opened an investigation into what happened to his package. After a couple days they determined that his package was lost and approved his claim for the insured amount. So within just days of opening the investigation into what happened to the package he shipped, UPS approved his claim and agreed to cut him a check for the insured amount of $2800. As I said before, you should not only look at just the initial cost of shipping your gun.

All the best, Chuck

As a side issue to shipping your airguns I recommend you degas your gun before you ship it due to safety considerations. This is especially important if your pcp airgun is being shipped by air. But even if it is being shipped by ground transport, besides not harming your gun this shows consideration for the people that handle your package from Point A to Point B. The air bottles on our guns are very safe but they could rupture if an extremely heavy object were dropped on them. So for the safety of everyone involved in shipping your package I believe degassing it is best.

All the best, Chuck

I've found UPS to have to lowest prices. If you use Ground or 3 Day you can ship a rifle in the $25-30 range.