RVing Alaska: Shipping and Receiving our Guns to Wolf Hawk Shipping in Tok Alaska
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Leaving Chicken behind we continue South on the Taylor Highway and hit the worst road conditions to date on our entire trip. Although construction crews were on it, in some cases it was making it worse. Once back down on the Alaska Highway and headed West into Tok we make our way down the Glenn Highway a mile or so to the Sourdough Campground where we meet back up with our friends Brock and Janine with J9B2 Adventures. We make sure to not miss the campgrounds famous pancake toss. The only winners were Brock and Spirit. The next morning we need to fill up the Disco with fuel and we find a station in town that with a fill up provides their customers with a free car wash and free parking overnight. We were sold and as a bonus they were the cheapest gas in town. Later that afternoon we go to Wolf Hawk Gun Shipping and retrieve our handguns that we previously shipped up from home in May.
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Film Location: Tok, Alaska
Filmed: June 7, 2017
Music from licensed EpidemicSound.com material.
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Thank you for putting the date on your lead-in. Important because it shows what the weather is like, especially in Alaska for instance. Some people refuse to do this.
Thank you sooo much, we didn't know these things. You guys are so kind to post these videos. Please know there are hundreds of us who drive to Alaska every year and soak up these kinds of videos. Brilliant!
We want to be as informative as possible. Not only showing the fun things to do while here but also the nitty gritty and the truths and misconceptions of making the drive to the land of the last frontier.
Seems like a lot of trouble but the shop owners seemed nice! Glad your guns were safe!
It was worth the trouble in our opinion. =)
Great video and explanations of how to ship and receive your guns on either end. My hubby wants to ship a couple of pistols up when we go next year and we'll probably bring a long gun as well. Your videos really helped us understand the whole process. Such a great job! Enjoying every minute of it!
Thanks for this informative video. We have been wondering this ourselves and you answered a lot of questions.
Thanks so much for the quick response. My son (15)& I will be RVing the summer in AK. Definitely gotta find me a copy of the milepost book. Been marathon viewing your videos & enjoying them alot. Thank you again & Pau Hana ✌
Glad we can help you!
Now that was very useful information, Thank You
Great info, thanks
Good information to share with others. A lot of people do not know this. I had to send some firearms to California same thing pretty easy.
Thanks Bill!
I wonder how much your video has increased the business for Wolf Hawk? I'm glad I stumbled upon your channel, and this video. I am thinking about driving up to Alaska if I get an RV next year, and one of the things I was wondering about what what I was going to legally do with my guns. I just need to look up the laws on long guns to see what is legal, and what isn't.
For rifle in Canada, barrel should be more than 18 iches and the overall length is 26 inches or more.
So was the $120 shipping fees & insurance per gun? 1way from the lower48 to AK . So $240 ruffly up & back on shipping costs? Or am I missing something? Great drone footage I thought for sure it was gonna clip the top of that tree! 😎
Mr. B we paid our FFL in WA a fee ($50 each way to send and receive the guns) in Tok Wolfhawk Shipping charges $30 per gun to send and receive. And then you pay for the postage and insurance each way. So for the sending and receiving service to the FFL’s we paid a total of $110 each way. Then we were responsible for postage and insurance of the packages which cost us approx $35 each way.
Great information. Do you know if I have to ship from a dealer in my home state or can I ship from the last state before heading to Alaska? Same with going back - do I have to ship to home state or can i ship it back to a dealer in the first state after hitting lower 48? We will be doing much more traveling hopefully leaving early next year from Florida headed to the furthest point north in Alaska.
We travel in a 2009 Sprinter Winnebago ERA van we call the Blue Line Vagabond. If you ever travel south to Florida and need a place to stay we have a farm in north Florida that is fully outfitted for camping/motor homes - just saying if you ever get in a pinch. Maybe we will see you on the road sometime - safe travels.
Thanks again for the great information.
You can ship from any FFL before crossing. We are just lucky we live 2 hours from the border so our FFL is super convenient. As for traveling to Florida we will be there this winter. Can't wait to explore the East Coast more this year. The last time we were there we were in State for only 3 days and stayed on St Gorge Island State Park.
Where is the drama?
Right. When done right there is no drama. ;)
I went through the Canadian border in the late 70's with guns hidden deep in my van but got busted for marijuana and had to travel back from Fairbanks to Tok to pay a $400 fine to the magistrate. Back then we were under the impression pot was okay because folks were allowed to grow what they called Matanuska Thunderfuck, an Alaska variety of marijuana in their homes and in the windows for personal consumption. A border guard approached my window, I rolled down the window and a cloud of Columbian Gold smoke escaped from the van. They searched us and our luggage then put a black Labrador dope sniffing dog in the van but it couldn't find the half-pound of Columbian or the guns. They took my expensive brass pipe and a small pinch of the weed in a baggy. Later, the Alaska law was changed and you can no longer grow the dope and the Canadian gun rules have gotten stricter. In the mid eighties I flew from lower 48 to Fairbanks and stashed two handguns and a carbine in a military duffle bag along with a large frozen turkey because I was going to celebrate Thanksgiving with friends and wanted to contribute to the dinner. The duffle was checked baggage and was not scanned. There wern't baggage scanners at that time. Another time in the mid eighties we were pulling a 26' travel trailer with a lifted four-wheeler. Before being allowed onto a ferry ship a crew of Canadian border guards searched through my trailer but the only thing they confiscated was a bag of oranges I had just bought at a Canadian grocery store. To this day Canada and Canadians suck, Eh!
Our Govt is so out of control!!! To bad we don't have a 2nd Amendment or this process wouls be easier!!