[Dracheous]

You can bring real fire-arms along with you if you are taking a plane to a location. Call a head as each airport has their own procedures for fire-arms in the building. All firearms will have to meet transport regulations ((locked the hell up and MUST be a hard shell case that is hard to get into)). As well it will be placed in checked luggage. As I said different airports have different procedures, some like you to goto a security check in office, some have their regular check ins trained to handle them.

However, having gone out to the coast to hunt with my mothers side of the family a few times; I can tell you from experience its much easier to have your arms shipped than to take them along. At the loss/delay rate of luggage on plane versus shipping rates, its actually safer to have it shipped two weeks in advance. The second time I took it on the plane, it ended up being 7 days late getting to me, because I had to wait for a plane that was going back to the previous stop off airport and coming back, mind you it was a remote location to make it 7 days, but all the hassle gone through to bring my favorite hunting rifle along was useless as I got ONE days hunt using it. Since, I've just started shipping it out two weeks in advance as it gets there usually a week in advance to me, which is more than enough time for one of my uncles to check it over and make sure nothing has shifted/broke in transit on me, and since neither have happened before as I just ship it packed into a hard case thats packed into a box its perfectly safe.

EDIT: Above is with IN Canada. Going across the border has a lot more paper work and fuss to it, that I no longer bring a rifle going down to hunt in the states no more. I just rent when I get there.

In the arctic its funny, cause you can get on the plane with out a word, and then you get off the plane in Yellowknife to go through security, its really quite funny.