Oh, I will add that once the post office found out it was legal to ship a rifle they were no problem at all. Very helpful as a matter of fact. They did make me break down the guns though. I took the scope off the rifle, pulled the bolt out and removed the barrel from the shotgun. Then bubble wrapped all of it. I took a picture of it with my digital camera and showed it to them at the post office and they said that was perfect. I don't think they were going to check anyway to be honest.

Paul