Check with your airlines, last I heard you can check up to 50 lbs of ammo within the 48 states.
I suggest that you check your sources. I travel with rifles and ammunition year 'round and haven't carried more than the 11 lbs as required by all the airlines I fly. I ship additional ammunition ahead to a location which will receive it for me. I've even shipped rifles ahead when the need arose.
From American Airlines:
"In the original packaging from the manufacturer or in packaging specifically designed to carry small amounts of ammunition (made of fiber, wood or metal), with a maximum of 11 pounds (5 kgs) per container or customer. Ammunition is not accepted loose or in magazines or clips."
Delta Airlines:
AMMUNITION
We allow small arms ammunition, in quantities not exceeding 11 lbs. (5 kg) per person, as checked-baggage only.Then there was this headline:
TSA stops passengers with 50 pounds of ammo in checked bags, as airlines ban guns in luggage to D.C. before inauguration
- By Josie Albertson-Grove New Hampshire Union Leader
- Jan 15, 2021 Updated Jan 15, 2021
The ammunition was found in the bag of two people traveling together, Velez said. Londonderry Police Capt. Patrick Cheetham said the two people were from Maryland.
Their bag also held an eight-ounce cannister of bear spray, Velez said.
Firearms are never allowed in carry-on bags, but several commercial airlines are banning guns and ammunition in checked luggage bound for the Washington, D.C., area in the days around President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.
Normally, according to their baggage policies, Southwest Airlines and American Airlines — the airlines that fly to the Washington area from Manchester — allow 11 pounds of ammunition per person. The airlines limit passengers to carrying small-arms ammunition for personal use.
TSA will stop you if you try to check 50 lbs.









