Posting a rifle stock to Germany

[NBCCS]

Hi,

Not sure if this is the rite section or not but hoping somebody will be able to give me some advice on the matter.

I've sold my AI stock to a chap in Germany. Looking on the parcel force website it says its prohibited to send any firearm component.

It's a non controlled item being a stock, no serial number ect on it and obviously off ticket.

Has anybody had any experience with this before or is there a courier service that could be reccomend?

Thanks,
NBCCS

 

[VSS]

It's just sports equipment

 

[Bavarianbrit]

You will be importing the stock into Germany so I would think the UK post office will require a statement of the value for their insurance plus German customs will be checking it into the EU and might be charging the end user some shekels, that's what happened to me when I bought something overseas from Germany and had it sent to me in Bavaria.

 

[phillc]

I bought a pair of scope rings from a very nice SD member, who kindly tried to post them to me in Austria. They were sent back as prohibited items. They're still in a drawer at a mate's place in the UK. I even worried about putting them in hand luggage next time I'm over and back for a trip.

If you figure out how to do it with the rifle stock, I'd love to know!

One way I did think of was posting to someone in the Republic of Ireland from the UK and then into the mainland EU. Might work.

 

[Bavarianbrit]

I bought a pair of scope rings from a very nice SD member, who kindly tried to post them to me in Austria. They were sent back as prohibited items. They're still in a drawer at a mate's place in the UK. I even worried about putting them in hand luggage next time I'm over and back for a trip.

If you figure out how to do it with the rifle stock, I'd love to know!

One way I did think of was posting to someone in the Republic of Ireland from the UK and then into the mainland EU. Might work.

Post them as astronomy mounts?

 

[phillc]

Post them as astronomy mounts?

Might try that when they’re in my hand luggage next time.

 

[Haldon UK]

Lots of camera mounting equipment doing the rounds across borders. Disassemble what you can (for safe transit through scanners).

 

[NBCCS]

Update for anyone interested or needing to post a stock to Germany.

Post office said they would accept it but couldn't gaurentee it would go and said they'd destroy it and not pay the insurance cover if they felt it was against their use policy - handy!

Ended up sending it with Ups. Was pretty straight forward, just listed it as exactly what it was "hunting stock". For the export licence went into a bit more detail saying "hunting rifle stock - unlicensed/controlled component constructed from alloy and plastic".

So far it's cleared UK customs and has landed in Germany and is held at customs there while they get in touch with the purchaser to verify it and then it should be on its way.