doy, re-read the CARRY ON..

NO, dont carry that shit on.. take this from a former TSA employee..
If you are flying home, heres my PERSONAL opinion.

Go get a card board box. Bubble wrap the SHIT out of it. fill it with packing peanuts. encase it with foam, what ever you can do to make sure its safe, and mail it home to yourself.
Nobody will care you are mailing it to yourself.. When we found a traveler flying out of Jackson Hole Wy, with 20" deer antler handled knifes and why they cant fly with them in their carry ons. We would point them to where they can mail it home to themselves..