Does anyone shop at Cabela's anymore? I don't anymore........selection

[Donjuan]

The Legends Kansas City Cabelas used to have a great bargain cave.
They took it from us.
I guess we just didn’t know how good we had it.

 

[fisherman983]

I never really have and dont nor will I.
Cabelas/bass bro shops are like the Walmart of hunting stuff. It has a small selection of a bunch of garbage in a very large store.

I can get the specific things I need for hunting/shooting at other places for cheaper.

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[HairyScandinavian]

They permanently lost me when they refused to sell me 9mm ammunition in South Dakota, because I had a NJ drivers license. They also won't ship ammunition to NJ, even though it's legal with an FID card. They're like the Vichy government during WW2.

The Basspro merger destroyed them. I consider them one step up from Dick's right now. There's a good video floating around on how damaging that merger was to the community in Nebraska where Cabela's got its start. Cabela's is just one of many victims of private equity greed.

I get most of my stuff from Midway. I just accumulate stuff in my cart until I hit the free shipping threshold, which doesn't take long.

I'll occasionally buy one off items that I need immediately from Amazon. But given a choice, I'd much rather give my business to Midway, which has been nothing but good.

I dunno man, a company not wanting to deal with a state that has goofy laws and FID checks sounds more like a NJ problem than a store problem. You can blame attorneys and rogue prosecutors and DA's for that probably.

 

[Abacist]

Every time I go to cabelas to check something out, I walk out with nothing, asking myself why the heck I went to cabelas again. Useless store.

On the rare occasion I go into a BassPro or Cabela's the experience is incrementally worse than the last time.

 

[DuckDawg22]

We have a Bass Pro about 25 minutes from us and there's a Red Robin across the parking lot, so if the wife and I ever need to kill an hour with the kids (two under 3) then that's the move. Fishies and French fries have saved many a day for us, and my two year old thinks "Sammy the Sturgeon" is her pet lol. But we've been there monthly for the past two years and I haven't bought one thing for myself. Bass Pro has always kind of been that destination trip though, where Cabelas still had some allure of exclusivity to it. Now it's all the same junk

 

[Britt-dog]

I very rarely go into a cabelas and never search them online. That said I just bought something from Mack’s Prairie wings and was surprised to find they are owned by bass pro also.