Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Scheel's Sports

If in Billings or SLC I'd much rather go to Scheels than Cabelas.

The employees at Scheels are much better, inventory is better.

Twice my son has had employees in the Billings Scheels give him a handful of tokens for the hunting video game. When you ask to see a handgun they don't groan and roll their eyes.

In Cabelas anymore you are almost treated like a nuisance.

Any of those stores are little better than Sportsmans Warehouse. They are all just another retail outlet with dorks behind the counter with a safari shirt on and they think they know what they are talking about. I like Cabelas because they do have a premium gun room with some decent guns that you can't find anywhere else. Scheels used to have those guns, but not any more. You have to have X-ray vision to see a handgun in Scheels, the way they hide them under all the chain link glass...

Scheels is a very good store. I picked up a great deal on a Tikka Superlight .270 with Talley rings already installed in their used guns when I was in Billings. My son bought a matching .308. When we got home we found out both guns had 30mm talleys which was a big of a bummer but it worked out.

There is one in Rapid City too. They cover all sorts of sporting goods, but are a great store.

Nobody wants premium guns. Maybe if Cabelas would dump the premium guns they could have better inventory in the rest of the store. I used to look at the old levers in Cabelas, they would be there for years. Every time one of them sold, I thought, Hey, Shrap was here.

Your Cabela's card switched because when Cabela's was bought by Bass Pro, their credit card business was split off. I don't know of any problems with the owner of the Cabela's card.. it's the handler for the Scheel's card that has taken anti-2A steps in the past (First Bank of Omaha).

In my experience the quality of guns in the high end section of Cabelas or Scheels is based on time and opportunity and location.

Scheels has some pretty Grade A schit from time to time.

I paid my Cabelas card off. 9 months or so later I tried using it to order online. It didn't work so I checked into it. Here some twit in California used my card number to order songs or some chidt off some website. They closed my card for non payment. I reported it as fraud and wanted to redeem my points. They said they turned it over to their fraud dept. and it will be investigated. A few months passed, I called and they said they have no record of anything I was talking about. Didn't reissue a card or give me my points back.

Fugck Cabelas and the horse they rode in on!

The guns in the Fine Gun Room at the last 2 cabelas I have been in consisted of Ruger Americans and Glocks. Maybe a nice old S&W revolver every now again but I haven't seen a fine gun there in at least 4 years.

This in spades. I still love Cabelas but after the purchase by Bass Pro it seems more a clothing store. I've been to a couple of Bass Pro shops and were nothing like what they turned my Cabelas into.

Scheels doesn't even have a fine gun room. They all used to. They closed them all as far as I know (maybe not the Des Moines store?).

Now they have 10 to 20 used rifles lined up a rack on a wall.

I have local pawnshops that carry more used guns.

I understand that someone committed suicide at a Cabela's with an unlocked gun that he was looking at, so the policy is trigger locks on all firearms all the time, no exceptions.

One of the Gun Library guys told me that a gun counter clerk at one of the stores, he didn't say which one, knuckled under to the pressure a potential buyer was putting on him, took the lock off, and was fired on the spot.

I was at the Cabela's in Sidney, NE, what was their flag ship store, and the used gun selection was terrible, the worst that I've ever seen at a Cabela's. Sadly, the Cabela's that we knew is now little more than a BPS. I think that Johnny Morris would have been wise to let Cabela's run as an independent operating company for awhile, so that they could identify and merge/combine the best aspects of both BPS and Cabela's. It seems as though Cabela's is being turned into BPS, but with used gun.

They do in Fargo.

Although, I'll admit to not knowing what is "fine" to some people and "fine" to me.

In Omaha, the Fine Gun Room was turned into the Tactical AR room. The usually have around 40 used long guns, usually a 60/40 split one way or the other that varies depending on what season it is and what they are able to take in trade.

In Lincoln, Omaha, I think Des Moines.. From a retail point of view, it makes sense. That was a lot of valuable real estate not making much money since they priced most things too high to sell fast. From a customer view, I'm disappointed.


Now you do have to admit that there's hardly anybody living around Sidney to sell used guns to that store. Stop at the Kearney Cabelas sometime, their selection is always horrible. Just not enough folks around to buy guns from.

I think when Sidney was Cabela's headquarters that they made a special effort to travel and buy guns, or have used guns shipped from other stores. That's probably past now that it's not the headquarters.


In short: I think I've bought probably half a dozen guns from various Cabela's in 2018-2019. I haven't bought a single gun from a Scheels in maybe 5 years - not because I don't want to, but because they've never had anything I was interested in.

Damn it’s not that there are so few to buy from, it’s because everybody has learned NOT to go to Cabelas or Scheels to sell as they hose you. 40 cents on the dollar typical 50 if you are damn lucky. I see 2-3 auctions advertised each week in a (free, mailed) paper out of Albion that have guns consigned. In fact I posted a link to an auction of I think 86 old Winchester’s, Colts and Sharps plus other memorabilia that I specifically advised them against going to those 2.
Quit blaming it on population and place the blame where it belongs.

I’ve never heard of Scheels, must be a Yankee chain.

BROWSE BY TOP CITIES
Appleton Billings Bismarck Cedar Falls Coralville Eau Claire Eden Prairie Fargo Grand Forks Great Falls Johnstown Lincoln Mankato Milwaukee Minot Moorhead Omaha Overland Park Rapid City Rochester Sandy Sioux City Sioux Falls Sparks Springfield West Des Moines

They are building one in the Colony in Texas

I was at the Rochester mn one last night.

Simply outstanding.

A while back when Dennis and I drove up to Billongs to spend some time with Ivan (Bigbuck), after breakfast he suggested that we visit their new Scheel's store - which we did. I had never seen one and it was excellent - we spent quite some time there with our old buddy exploring an interesting venue (including ferris wheel) and stopping now and then to rest and talk. They had a deal going on .22RF ammo and we were able each to buy a carton of FED U M at a very good price. Still shooting it when needed - will use some at the upcoming SW gathering down here. Good memories - good store.