mailing a recurve

[Jon Stewart]

How do you mail a 50" recurve?  I know very carefully. But what packaging do you use and what mail service.

Jon

[MJB]

Bubble wrap limbs/ tips and riser section. Make a box to fit. I use U S Postal service, Priority Mail insured with delivery confirmation. Your talking 18.00 give or take. Or PVC pipe and end caps.

[TRAP]

I get refrigerator boxes from a local appliance store and custom make boxes.  It's heavy cardboard and pretty tough.  Bubble wrap the bow and pack newspaper around it to keep it from moving around.  

USPS Priority quickest and cheapest from here usually.  

Trap

[ckruse]

I got a 59 Kodiak once that was done that way minus the box in the middle! Miraculously it was unharmed! CKruse

[TRAP]

[Jon Stewart]

The bow I am sending back, Company name withheld, was won by me at an archery shoot last fall for my 5 year old grandson.  Never been shot, brand new $230.00 recurve.  Its a 20# draw and was a little much for him to use so it remained unused until this spring.  I wanted to get the bow ready for him  to use, new string, rest ect and I noticed some real bad cracking on the limbs.  Some cracks you can feel with your finger nail.  So I called the company and they told me to mail it back and they admitted that they had a finish problem last fall on some models and said that they would either refinish or replace the bow.

So thats where I am at.  I am thinking of buying blue/pink board and cutting out the outline of the bow and laying it in the blue board and mailing it in a box.  I don't want this thing showing up at the factory busted up.

Thanks for all the suggestions.