I like Cabella's. The store up here in Hambur, PA has a well thought out architecture and the layout is interesting with lots of side areas that get you out of the gigantic retail store feel.

As far as I can tell, the merchandise is of a good range of quality and is well lit and displayed. They have invested a lot of time and money trying to mix selling with a pleasant environment.

I go one to two times a year and take my wife. We browse a bit, have lunch, sit in on some of the lectures they have, and in general have a good time.

Sure, they are in it to make money but it does not have the money-grubbing feel. At least to me. The store employs a lot of people from all walks of life, and draws customers from a wide geographic area. They worked with the local township before starting the building process. There town itself has built a small industry around this large area magnet to the benefit of many small mom and pop businesses.

My experiences have all be positive. Just my viewpoint.

I am in Oregon and I don't think we have a Cabela's yet but We do have Sportsman's Warehouse. They are ok to deal with. I have bought several guns from them. I'll tell you though, the Sheels All-sport in Appleton Wisconsin will blow your doors off! They have used guns, new guns, normal guns, serious collector pieces, and a bunch of other stuff!

This year at OSH I am going to pick something up from Sheels!

Matt

I haven't been to the store, but I like the catalogue for certain items. I'm not a thousand dollar fly rod type of guy, so I like their Stowaway 5 piece graphite fly rods. I first read about them a few years ago in a blind casting survey in a fishing mag where they outshined a lot of the high end stuff. At a little over 100 bucks, they're an excellent value and they pack up well. At some point, a lot of those $1000 rods and reels are going to start showing up at estate sales, with remarkably little use. I'll be there, with my stack of $10 bills.

CAVU

A few years ago,I had the opportunity to tour the G. loomis plant in Oregon,VERY well made fishing rods.
The lady that gave the tour said that the company makes rods for a lot of other companies including Cabelas.
That take-down fly rod might be one of em.

Centmont wrote:Cabela's high level brass attended a Mt. FWP Commission meeting yesterday essentially to apologize for subdividing some of our best hunting grounds. I think they may be getting the message from the sportsman crowd that trying to sell hunting gear...and destroying hunting grounds so no one can hunt .... just might be mutually exclusive.

I haven't heard about Cabela's subdividing anything except people and their money. Please elaborate.

Eric

wilm tel wrote:A few years ago,I had the opportunity to tour the G. loomis plant in Oregon,VERY well made fishing rods.
The lady that gave the tour said that the company makes rods for a lot of other companies including Cabelas.
That take-down fly rod might be one of em.

Thanks. That's interesting, and makes sense. The Stowaway is a nice rod, and having a 5 piece in a sturdy case is really convenient for packing in the plane.

CAVU

hicountry wrote:Piper Cubs, Rednecks, Chinese junk, high taxes, and I am stuck on the ground because of this rotten weather we are having!
Cabela's stock is down to around $11 a share, half of what it was a year ago. They expanded real fast, put in a lot of stores, got people excited and now the only look like cammo version of Wal Mart with a green roof. About the only time I go to Cabela's is when someone comes to visit from out-of-town and they need a tour.
Piper Cubs on floats.....it sounds like they are at more than one location.

Or maybe, just maybe, they thought rednecks were just a bunch of dipstick wallmart shoppers who don't give a rats ass that all their guns are made in china where the barrels fall off after a 20 round rapid fire. hope rob b. got a russian sks and not a chinese one.

If they were wrong and they underestimated their gun buying, pickup driving, tobacco spitting, bambi killing redneck, then sign me up and call me Bubba. There's hope for America yet.

You know your a redneck when...

". . . your airplane cost you less than 15 hundred bucks and uses two stroke oil. "

". . . you go to strip joints for family reunions."

". . . you think a Volvo is part of a woman’s anatomy."

GroundLooper wrote:....................
". . . you think a Volvo is part of a woman’s anatomy."