The wiser you get as a shooter the less you want to travel with a team. It’s painful. One gun to be examined at Chinese customs is painfully acceptable. But twenty! You sit in dank airport halls, exhausted, as serial numbers are matched to every gun for security reasons. In 2008 I had to spend nine hours at a police station in Nanjing airport before I was cleared. It doesn’t end there either. After the airport comes only the promise of a long car ride ahead. Shooters never go to hotels. They drive straight to the range to deposit their guns. It is always a long day.
