Sent a frame in around the first week in November for three barrels (280, 12 ga, 357) and it arrived back in town December 19 (bout 6 weeks total). Everything came back in good shape. Shotgun barrel on the frame in a reinforced box (not double boxed but a gun box with extra cardboard around it) and the other barrels individually packed in Remington shotgun barrel boxes inside another box. All well packaged. I was charged exactly the costs quoted on the order sheet with the exception of the sales tax that was added in. I have not fired the Handi since it returned.