RE: Flying with a bow?
Flying Northwest to Montana from PA. I have a hard sided aluminum case. They checked it at the gate and I just locked it and off we went. Packed some extra clothes around the bow. The metal case I have will not get damaged by anything other than someone driving over it. I also used a sharpie marker and outlined some key points on my bow. Arrow rest, site position. This allowed me to know when we arrived that nothing really bad happened. Took a shot into a target at a house near the airport. Driving down the road noticed a target in the yard and asked the kind folks and took a shot and had a cold beer. Really nice people in Montana. Did that before I left civilization, because no bow shops etc back where we were.
Have fun.