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July 2, 2011
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snake-eye said:
After trying everything, I spoke with Keith at DW and my 715 is on its way to them for reveiw and repair. Hopefully just a new extractor and shims for the cylinder.
I was surprised by the shipping cost - $98 one way Fed Ex.
Holy Smokes snake-eye! $98.00 for ground shipping? That's waaay too much! 
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Unfortunately Fed Ex requires that you use next-day air, but it still seems excessive to me.
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Well next day, probably a little heavy and a declared value? Maybe not too much. Did you send it from a FedEx center or one of those wrap and ship places? Wonder why they required Air? That's strange.
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It weighed out at 4.2 pounds and I declared $600 value. Keith warned me that Fed Ex has a policy requiring next day air for firearms. I think Fed Ex is the only carrier that will deliver to them - must have something to do with the foreign country they are in. 
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I forgot - it was at a Fed Ex center, not a contract location.
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Next time try UPS. I think you can send it 2nd Day or at the very least Next Day Saver. 2nd day would probaly have been about 30 bucks and Next Day Saver (guaranteed by the end of the day) would have been about 15 to 25% cheaper. My company ships stuff somewhere in the world everyday not to mention all over the US. We stopped using FedEx about 3 years ago for a multitude of reasons.
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You can legally ship to an authorized firearms repair facility by UPS without any additional restrictions, but you must use a UPS "Hub", not the "UPS Store" you see everywhere. The repair facility can ship direct back to you, but a signature will be required.
When shipping to the authorized repair facility, it is helpful for you to show some type of supporting document (like an email) that the gun is being shipped for repair, but this is not required.
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman "Were is the Self Help Section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
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Or you can go through your local FFL gun shop. Mine charges $25
for the trouble and ships USPS at $10.95 for medium flat rate box
plus what ever insurance runs so total would be around $40 to $45
at the most. Just throwing that out there for ya, maybe it's an
option you can consider.
-Blacktop
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Blacktop said:
Or you can go through your local FFL gun shop. Mine charges $25
for the trouble and ships USPS at $10.95 for medium flat rate box
plus what ever insurance runs so total would be around $40 to $45
at the most. Just throwing that out there for ya, maybe it's an
option you can consider.
-Blacktop
If your FFL will do this, it's a good option. FFL can use USPS, cost is less for you, and he makes a few bucks on this too.
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman "Were is the Self Help Section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
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I get kind of anal shipping things like firearms. UPS gives me that step by step tracking. If in the worst case, it get lost, UPS will process the incident very quickly. USPS...... well good luck! I just never ship anything of great dollar or sentimental value via USPS. We've been burned too many times. Of couse for PO boxes, APO and FPO it can only go USPS.
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snake-eye said:
It weighed out at 4.2 pounds and I declared $600 value. Keith warned me that Fed Ex has a policy requiring next day air for firearms. I think Fed Ex is the only carrier that will deliver to them - must have something to do with the foreign country they are in.
While I have some thoughts about their gun laws, and Chuck Schumer is possibly a Communist, New York is not yet a foreign country 
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just make sure you don't get your Picante sauce from New York City! 
I'm pretyy sure that place is a foreign country! 
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Thanks for the suggestions.
I was under the impression that using Fed Ex was a requirement when sending to DW, and Fed Ex requires that you use next-day air. I will check more closely next time to be sure.
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Both Fed-ex and UpS require next day. They did this right after USPS
quit shipping hanguns from the public.
I can personally attest I have shipped well over 1000 packages
USPS and although a couple have went in the wrong direction
for a bit of their travel, they all were delivered and intact.
I have not had any problem with anything I have shipped
Fed-ex or UPS but have received a few damaged items.
Wife worked shipping for Ridge Tool for the winter once.
She packaged and shipped 500+ small orders a day and
the joke was if it when "Brown" (UPS) it was sure to get there,
might be in a million pieces, but sure to get there.
And if it went Fx (Fed-ex) well, who the hell knows where
it's at .
And just a FYI, USPS is contracted with both UPS and Fed-ex,
USPS dose not own any of their own planes so anything
that is first class or priority mail goes to your State processing
center and from there ends up on either UPS or Fed-ex planes
till it reaches the State of destination and then through that States
USPS processing center.
-Blacktop
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November 17, 2008
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I had hesitated to mention this but since BT broke the ice here goes. I have heard lots of negative things about the USPO but for my experience, and I have used USPO for my grip shipping exclusively, they have been spot on. At work we get tons of stuff UPS and they seem to do fine but FedEx is a joke. Probably just the local delivery guy but broken is broken. Any way if we could only get someone to ship firearms at a reasonable cost.
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brucertx said:
just make sure you don't get your Picante sauce from New York City!
NEW YORK CITY?!! Get a rope!
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February 2, 2009
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I used my local FFL and he sent it USPS with tracking and insured for $2000, mine was a Supermag and all went well, this was a few years ago, was still alot cheaper than Fedex.
July 7, 2011
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I had a similar problem, light primer strikes, a few good ones, 1 or 2 out of 6 FTF on hard CCI primers. I tightened the cylinder ball tension screw slightly, and no more problems with any primers. If the cylinder tension was so slight that the cylinder would close up easily, I had a lot of problems. If it was fairly snug, no problems. Your mileage may vary.
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snake-eye said:
I was surprised by the shipping cost - $98 one way Fed Ex.
That's because guns are evil so they have to go by next day air. Unfortunately, only FFLs can use the mail to ship handguns so the shippers have us by the short hairs.
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I got my 715 back from DW and spent time on the range. It's now perfect!
They replaced the hand and added a head space shim as well as all new springs. The labor was only $80 and return shipping was only $30! Total was $175.95, not counting my cost of shipping to them in the first place.
Regardless, I now have a totally reliable DW, and it was worth it!
I've been experimenting with polishing on my Ruger SP101 and I like the results, so I might start on the 715. I already used the sandpaper process to remove some scratches, including the common ones from the extractor, all of which were present when purchased.
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