Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire My Experience At The Gun Counter: Bass Pro Shops

Drove there to see what I could pick up in smokeless powder and primers. I put a couple of pounds of powder in my shopping cart, then asked the guy stocking the shelves why I didn't see any primers on the shelves. He tells me I have to buy those at the gun counter.

I go over there, and it's full of waiting customers lined up at the counter. Seemed a crazy system just to stand there and try to remember what position one is in for help from a sales clerk, so I asked if I was supposed to take a ticket. I was told that I needed to sign in at the kiosk (like at a doctor's office), and he points to it.

I go over and sign my name and enter my phone number, as the device requested. I wait patiently for over a half hour, chatting with other customers, then decided I had had enough, since a good many of the people who were there when I arrived were still waiting, and was about to leave in frustration when it occurred to me to just interrupt one of the salesmen and ask "Do we still have to wait on our queue position to come up if all we want is a box of primers?" The guy says, "Oh, no, you just have to ask." LOL.

There I was, wasting over a half hour waiting for my name to come up on the queue when all I needed to do was ask. You'd think there would be a sign there, "The Kiosk Sign-In Is Just For Help With Firearms, All Others, Just Ask For Assistance."

Anyway, I told him what primers I wanted. He grabbed them and handed them to me.

None in Florida.

It’s a shame what BPS did to Cabelas.

For all the talk I heard about Academy, it’s pretty disappointing.

Yeah, there are always lots of typos when I first post. Then I do a proof read, make dorrections, and post it again.

I like the BPS used guns online. Some good deals there. However, IMO if they don't get it together Scheels is going to eat their lunch.

None in Florida.

Drove there to see what I could pick up in smokeless powder and primers. I put a couple of pounds of powder in my shopping cart, then asked the guy stocking the shelves why I didn't see any primers on the shelves. He tells me I have to buy those at the gun counter.

I go over there, and it's full of waiting customers lined up at the counter. Seemed a crazy system just to stand there and try to remember what position one is in for help from a sales clerk, so I asked if I was supposed to take a ticket. I was told that I needed to sign in at the kiosk (like at a doctor's office), and he points to it.

I go over and sign my name and enter my phone number, as the device requested. I wait patiently for over a half hour, chatting with other customers, then decided I had had enough, since a good many of the people who were there when I arrived were still waiting, and was about to leave in frustration when it occurred to me to just interrupt one of the salesmen and ask "Do we still have to wait on our queue position to come up if all we want is a box of primers?" The guy says, "Oh, no, you just have to ask." LOL.

There I was, wasting over a half hour waiting for my name to come up on the queue when all I needed to do was ask. You'd think there would be a sign there, "The Kiosk Sign-In Is Just For Help With Firearms, All Others, Just Ask For Assistance."

Anyway, I told him what primers I wanted. He grabbed them and handed them to me.

To be fair, there is a lot of lawfare (lawyers) in the mix. Witnessed some ol' boy get bamboozled by the fed form... answered incorrectly so they wouldn't sell him the gun. I could literally see the puppet strings on that poor young man having to be in the middle of that shyteshow. Inspired a thought that his civil rights had been violated, that they took advantage of his illiteracy of lawyer-speak.