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I finally made a visit to the WalMart for Rednecks in Reno, and was really blown away. That place is huge! It's like a museum of natural history too, with the displays of all the various animals you can blast with bullets or arrows. I started to get a creepy Planet of the Apes feeling, like maybe in the future we humans will grace the taxidermy collection.

I really liked the trout stocked fish tank, that was cool. The place was busy as hell though, just like IKEA, and they didn't have a Cub hanging from the ceiling, which is the main reason I went to visit.

A friend of mine rebuilt several of these cubs that are hanging in the Cabela's stores...just which stores with which cubs I am not sure. He has told me which ones but I have forgotten. I have seen them on his trailer when he passed through here at Sidney. Maybe someone can tell me which store has the cub on floats? This friend of mine helped me with some parts when I was rebuilding a cub and was a real help. Maybe he is a backcountry member and might read this as he rebuilt a super cub when he was going to aviation school here at WNCC.

I went to the Cabelas in Wheeling WV about a week and a half ago (4 hr drive), and they had a Super Cub on floats. What a great place!

The store in Hamburg PA. has a cub on floats in it. And the store in Wheeling, West Va. is supposed to be a replica of the Hamburg store so that one probably has a Cub on floats as well.

BTW our Bass Pro Shop here in Hanover MD. has a luscombe on floats hanging from its ceiling.

A Luscombe on floats? Now that is something I have never seen.

OK, I have not been to Cabelas, anywhere. However if your game enough to fly into 64S, walk up or bum a ride to the Prospect Trohpy room and Cafe.

Now they have some "Wall Hangers" in there.

Just an FYI.

See ya, Bub

Why manufacturing is moving over seas?
Corporate tax rate. We have one of the highest in the world. Most manufacturers would love to keep things here at home for patriotic and logistical reasons, but if we are going to continue to double tax these folks who can blame them for setting up else where.

Corporations don't pay taxes, people do. We tax earnings at the corporate level, then again at the personal level.

Of course product liabilty insurance and trial attorneys haven't helped either, especially in the case of GA

TwinPOS wrote:Corporations don't pay taxes, people do. We tax earnings at the corporate level, then again at the personal level.

So, this is an interesting topic. Why should taxes be the burden of the working stiff? Why not the corporations. They just pass on their expenses anyway. It isn't obvious to me why one form of taxation versus another is better, except from the point of view of the taxee, who always thinks it sucks.

I worked for a fortune 50 company who moved a lot of it's production to Singapore, mostly for tax reasons. I can't say I'm a supporter of big business. Especially when you read that most new jobs are not created by the giants, but by the small businesses. It just seems the big guys are better contributors to the politicians, and therefore get all the benefits.

not sorry for the rant,
tom

I think you guys need your own thread. I see nothing in your posts about stuffed dead animals, decommissioned Piper Cubs, or gaping rednecks.

I went to the Reno Cabela’s last week, and I have to say I was completely under-whelmed. I’m not sure why it surprised me, but I was appalled by how low the general quality of the merchandise was. Made in China seemed to be the rule, and I realized just how spot on my earlier quip about Cabela’s being Wal-Mart for rednecks really was.

The fish in the aquarium had absolutely terrible color…nothing at all like wild fish, or even hatchery fish for that matter. Perhaps there is a reason trout are not favorite aquarium fare…

I’m a rather particular fan of high quality knives…another disappointment. If there was even a knife counter in the store I didn’t find it. Instead I found several isles of blister-packed, mass produced, made in China crap.

But what really turned me cold, and very possibly blinded me to any redeeming aspect of the place, was the super abundance of dead animals…dead exotic animals…that they not only had on display, but had the gall to solicit donations towards. Now I’m not anti-hunting by any means. In fact, on ethical grounds I refuse to eat any meat or poultry I didn’t kill myself. But I’ve never agreed with trophy hunting, and the killing of animals which will most likely be extinct in my lifetime makes my stomach churn. To do so only that they can be stuffed and put on display in order to stimulate the sale of mass produced garbage makes my stomach absolutely ache.

Almost twenty years ago Kenya incinerated its considerable ivory reserve…an act that had a tremendous impact on their national wealth. They did so to illustrate that there is no such thing as “clean” ivory, and that they would rather be a poorer country with a healthy elephant population than a rich country devoid of pacaderms. The people of Kenya destroyed millions of dollars worth of legally collected ivory because they determined (quite correctly) that it is impossible to have both an ivory trade and elephants. So it was with particular disgust that I found not only a stuffed elephant and a stuffed rhino, but a set of trophy elephant tusks ornamenting the gun room. I’d have been a hell of a lot more impressed by a bunch of big screen TV’s showing footage of live animals.

I guess at the end of the day I found Cabela’s to be a lot like a Vegas casino…impressive in how extravagant, garish and over done it is, but completely void of taste, class, or lasting substance. That they are appealing so successfully to a population of people (outdoorsmen) who traditionally have sought a more meaningful connection with the world is nothing short of depressing.

If this is the future of our country I fear we are doomed. I can only hope that we will retain as much of our historic sense of quality and tradition as Mexico has

Try Sportsman's Warehouse, http://sportsmanswarehouse.com/, or Gander Mtn. http://www.gandermountain.com/.
They're less of a museum and a more of a products on the shelf kinda store. Cabella's and Bass Pro cater to the tourists rather than guys like me who just wanta run in, grab what I need, and get out.

Hammer wrote:I went to the Reno Cabela’s last week, and I have to say I was completely under-whelmed. I’m not sure why it surprised me, but I was appalled by how low the general quality of the merchandise was.

I went there two weeks ago in Reno, and I have to agree with you. Underwhelmed is exactly how I felt. Cheap junk, and store full of pilgrims and tourists. Kinda like REI. In the old days REI was a climber's paradise, the staff all hard core crazies and a wealth of information. Now it's nothing but high dollar stuff for the yuppies to strap to the top of their Land Rovers, and the clerks minimum wage rejects from McDonalds...

Gump

The Boise Cabelas is idealy situated. There is a Hooters across the street! Guns, ammo, Hooters.


Idaho SuperCub

Hi All,
I was in Reno for two weekend layovers this month and the first I went out to Cabelas and walked around the second 22 Dec., I went out to shop a little and couldn't find a parking spot anywhere and left. I guess that Cabella's does market analysis and wanting to make max money they stock for the majority of their coustomers. The high end pro level stuff that we who use the equipment want doesn't sell in mass, so the money sas: stock and sell lower quaility stuff and make more money. Sorry guys but if you want good equipment you aren't sitting home watching enough TV!
A quick story: Two years ago I was guiding a group of Texians who professed to be outdoors men with vast experience and after a few days of proving themselfs wrong one asked me if I would show him how to start a fire with matches! outdoors!in the bush! Rate yourself in reguards to this and you will see my point, fellow dinosaurs.

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.

Reading these post's it seems like some thought that Cabela's was around because they want to support the sportsman. And have fallen into getting supplied by China.

Geez its just all about the money, a large market to tap into selling crap.

I personally like to support the people that support me. And do business with people I like.

I haven't been to the place, and have no reason to go.

JMGT you gonna have that special coffee grind when I get there?

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.

mr scout wrote:
JMGT you gonna have that special coffee grind when I get there?

special coffee grind?? John have you been holding out on me about this? What's this about a special grind???

Glad to read these comments by you guys who have been to Cabella's. I only get their catalogs and pour through them. They seem to have a bunch of good stuff but by catalog we have no way of telling what the quality is or where it's made. Everything looks good in a picture. I'll keep these comments in mind next catalog they send. See that's why this is such a great group and site..... THanks...Iceman