My wife and I are taking a vacation to Alaska at the end of the month. I've been reading all the TSA and Alaska Airlines websites about checking our pistols. Seems pretty straight forward, locked hard sided container, ammo in factory boxes, and declare it at checkin so the TSA can inspect it.

We have a Hardigg laptop case that I was planning to put my OEM Springfield Armory case inside of, and then it still has room for ammo and if we decide to take our Ruger..

So I think I have all my stuff in order, I've just never done it so I'm a little nervous, anyone have any experience? words of wisdom?