Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Air Guns Cabales has dropped the ball.

This kind of surprises me. There used to be a SW store in Oklahoma City. Had lots of high end glass. Clothes were better than Bass Pro but not top shelf. They were always busy but then closed when SW restructured.

The SW store in Cheyenne also has lots of good glass and a big selection of ammo. Probably the most high end glass I've ever seen. Of course, I didn't buy anything except an elk call.

The Sidney, Neb Cabelas is huge but did not carry the old clothes line I used to buy from them. I usually can count on picking up game bags there.

Ever since cabelas went public and adopted the walmart sales philosophy it has went down hill. More and more items are cheap cabelas labels now with huge markups. Very little name brand quality products anymore. I am not interested in everything saying cabelas on it. The whole store wont have more than half dozen sales staff on the floor, check out takes forever ,only a few registers are usually open.
They bring in a great product only long enough to send it to china to be knocked off under their label. Pricing is often retail plus.
Get to know an employee well enough to be candid with you and you will hear some amazing remarks from the management.
. If you really want to see a great outdoors store with great products,quality, and customer service, visit a Scheels. Floor managers will steer a sales person your way and stay with you as long as you need. I purchase 20 to 1 at scheels compared to BPS or Cabozo.

Scheels stores are awesome. All I had to see was the display full of Cooper rifles to know they were a step above. Only problem is the nearest one is 4 hours away. Maybe that is a good thing.