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Nice bbq selection. I buy a lot of my kids sports stuff there, including shoes. Hunting and fishing selection is ok. Camping is decent. I usually pick up a $40 easy-up every spring.
Over 60% of the store is clothes. Their Magellan line of clothes and hunting gear is decent quality for the price.
Keep an eye out during their transitions to find some good deals. I.e. end of summer boating stuff on sale to make room for hunting, and visa versa.
For 74 years Academy was a privately held company owned by the Gochman family, but as of a few years ago it’s publically traded on the Nasdaq. Lots of speculation as to whether they go the (mis)direction of every other sporting goods store in the future.
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Anything from Texas is good! I'll agree. Connie Jo from Jeff Davis County was very good.
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Decent. Much better than Bass Pro's crap. But I find their gun sales staff to be insufferable. ^^^^This^^^^ They don't hire knowledgeable gun staff. They hire staff and train them in "ACADEMY culture". They can't AFFORD knowledgeable gun staff. Who, in the day on the interwebs and YouTube goes into a store to ask the staff what they should buy?? I just wanna ask them to finger fug it….
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Academy is decent. Prices are decent. Mini Bass Pro is up the road just before the state line. Was in there last weekend for the first time in several years. Wife wanted a pistol and they had a good selection. Down the road is a private gun/hunting store that is well stocked with everything. Good brands. Lots of hunting stuff. Only problem is everything is MSRP. There is a Dick's in the shopping center next to Academy. They moved from across the interstate. Don't think they even carry guns at that Dick's anymore. Walmart next to them. That Walmart no longer carries guns. Academy has decent sales from time to time. Black Friday they usually have some really good prices.
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We stopped to one every day in Texas we were blown away by Academy and Buckeys gas stations
You've got to hand it to a blind prostitute
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Back before corporate America got hold of them they were a military surplus store.It was a mom and pop operation. Now the corporate slime has turned them into trash.U can shop there,but the Nike and other woke junk makes me sick.i buy my hunting license there,not much else. Southern Sales IIRC ya! GWB
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We stopped to one every day in Texas we were blown away by Academy and Buckeys gas stations Bucc-ee's https://www.facebook.com/bucees/ya! GWB
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buy most of my cloths there.
God bless Texas-----------------------
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I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull
Its not how you pick the booger..
but where you put it !!
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buy most of my cloths there. I've just about quit the Bucc-ee's in Luling, I want to stay married.... ya! GWB
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I like Acacdemy 2-stores in Baton Rouge. I have a store card buy ammo, hunting, fishing & other things Ì need with it.
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Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Sportsman’s Warehouse and then Gander Mountain tried opening stores here, couldn’t compete with Academy.
Bass Pro is hanging on on the Far North Side, but that’s the more upscale area.
If I want a $5,000 Johnboat rig complete w/ trailer and outboard I’ll go to Academy, if I want 144mo financing on something much bigger I’ll go to Bass Pro.
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I have bought a lot of ammo from Academy, used to be free shipping over $25.
I visited the local store when I bought my SIG 2022. Best price around by far.
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Feed store in a hole in the road town.
Apparently, some locals burn up lot's of 16 gauge ammo because this M&P outfit keeps 16 gauge "in stock"!
Not cheap, but because it's a M&P and not a Big Box outfit and I can always use 16 ammo, I try to buy at least one box when we go in.
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We stopped to one every day in Texas we were blown away by Academy and Buckeys gas stations Two of our homegrown retailers. Hope you enjoyed your stay. Both stores have lots to offer. I try to help them along often!! Lol.
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I think Academy sucks. They are 40 miles from me. They don't keep their inventory current between website and store. I have been several times to buy things their website shows instock in the Jonesboro, AR store. They have never once had what I went in the store to buy. After a couple of those trips.I never made the drive just to go there. I only check there if I am already in town.
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Never been impressed. Weak selection, not great prices.
Bought the kids some sports stuff there over the years, and always cruise through the ammo and guns. Never see anything that caught my eye.
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