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김원진

김원진

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So i'm about to go on vacation again, and as always will be bringing a couple folders with me and now a fixed blade(spyderco caspian2, need to try out it's H-1 steel).

In previous years i use to just check no for everything on the customs paper, because i wasn't trying to bring over food, large currency, or weapons of mass destruction. But the past 2 years i did declare my knives, and was stopped while in Japan, and korea. They had to measure everything and ask why i was bringing them(i was bringing some chef cutlery for my father one time). Reasons be hiking, camping, gifts, etc. So i never had problems outside of that. It did interest me that it was only when i declared them that i was checked.

Has anyone had their checked-baggage questioned because of your (declared or not)knives, and had to release them? Were you able to mail them, or did you just give them up?

I had a nice zippo that i had to give up in Japan, flying domestically in there from hokkaido to narita. And my friend wouldn't mail it back to me because of the postal service.
 
Personally, I have travelled to alot of countries, and always brought a couple of knives with me (in the checked luggage of course). Never carried big knives tho (guess the biggest was my Ontario RAT 1), nor high end or expensive knives.
I never declared anything about them, nor I was ever questioned about bringing them, nor checked.
:cool:
 
I travelled to India a couple of years ago with a small folder and SAK checked in the luggage with no issues whatsoever. They did have a few issues with the zippers on my cargo pants pockets that I was wearing apparently. My wife still mocks me for practically having to disrobe at security while trying to explain that the zippers couldn't be removed.
 
i'm leaving for madrid next month and am thinking about carrying SAKs (a Vic Classic and a Wenger Handyman) on my duffel bag, do i need to declare it? i'm much too afraid to bring folders because i came from a country that had terrorist bombing recently. i knew there's an option to send the knives via mail or fedex but i'd like to pay for another blade than to pay the shipping cost ;)
 
I have never declared my knives while travelling internationally. But I have never took with me anything which would be usually considered a weapon.
The biggest knife I ever took with me so far was Spyderco Endura and it did not fall in any of the cathegories of interest.
 
I travel between the UK & the US two or three times a year & have always packed in my hold baggage a well worn M21 that I use for everything. On my Fall trips there's usually a hunter & a skinner in there too.
I've opened my bag to find one of those "searched by TSA" notices on several occasions & on one occasion upon landing at Atlanta had my bags searched in my presence but never had any comment made about my knives (they WERE interested in why I had a rangefinder & spotting scope....).
 
hmmm, seems, no one has had a problem with checked on knives. i'll probably stop declaring then like i used to do in the first place. the largest blade i'd bring over for vacation is my umnumzaan. and it falls under the length for knife laws

good luck to the others travelling, update back here wen you come back from your travels :)
 
Kind of funny -

First time I ever carried any weapons over an international border, it was just a normal sized clip style tactical folder and a can of OC. I did a fairly good job camoflauging them in my checked and just didn't mention it. Well.... I'm standing at the baggage claim conveyor belt, I see my suitcase. As it gets closer, 2 uniformed guys each take a position along side of me. When I look at the bag, they follow my gaze then ask "is that yours?" While pointing out my bag. I consider saying no and just walking away, but instead say yes and reach for it. One of them reaches in front of me and grabs it before I can. At this point, I'm about to have a heart attack, thinking jail in S.E. Asia can't be comfortable. Then he asks me where I want it, they were those airport bellhops LOL. I've never worried about it since then and I've never had a problem. Its been fixed blades that are undeniably people pokers, the other times.
 
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