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Ordered a gun online once from them. That was a mistake. Their gun checkout system is about as logical as a drunk donkey trying to herd sheep. Still have to wait in the same line by the gun counter. Then have to wait in a second line for the paperwork (tablet form). Then have to wait a third time for the gun checkout and an escort to the parking lot. If you get behind a dunce that doesn't know $hit from shinola and asks 1000 irrelevant questions, you will be behind them at all three stages as well. Figure on an hour on a light day. Between now and Christmas- forget it. Sportsman's Warehouse isn't much better. Bought a single action revolver (NIB) there, and the one dunce decided he had to pull the cylinder before he could let it go. Only took 20 minutes for him to figure out how to get that back together.

No more. Support local business, and buy a gun online out of state, and ship it to your local FFL holder. Generally, can get no tax, free shipping, and no hassles.

Cabelas is no different than any other store these days. Try to buy a pair of socks at a shoe store.

I still go to every Cabelas in in any town that has one and once in awhile there is something worth going in for. You can buy a Glock anywhere, but classic guns are few and far between…

I find a lot of good stuff on the Sportman's web site. I order it and have it delivered to the store for free. It's not quite as good as Brownell's or Midway but it's not bad. I am less than 2 miles for the Sportman's store so it's pretty handy.

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Cabelas?

I thought they went out of business

Yup, theyve been [bleep] for a long time, years before the basspro buyout

Not a cabelas issue exclusively, this is an american employee issue. No workers so we get stuck with chitbags who shouldnt and wouldnt normally be employeed if things were normal

Not to many small guys her in Commyfornia
They have all but been wiped out by Criminals or the Bureaucracy
I was introduced to a Black Powder guy and was getting to know him quite well.
Then some POS gang Banger robbed and killed one of his workers and the Insurance company closed him down.

a Decade latter I was in Turners Outdoorsman and started talking to one of the salesman about Black Powder.

No customers in the store at all just me and the Sales Staff.
Well that kid Salesman and my self started talking and all of the other sales people started listening to us learning from what we were talking about.

It turned out that the kid I was talking to was the Son of the Black Powder guy that I was getting to know that was shut down.

He remembered me coming in his dads shop.
We talked for maybe a half hour about Black Powder and then the New Manager of the store told everyone to get back to work and Kicked me out of the store.

I was the only Customer in the Store.

On the way home I called my girl to look up the phone # to the Corporate Office.

Before she got back to me I had (2) Salesman call me to give me the Corporate Office #.

When I got home I call the office and when they picked up the phone they said Yes MR------- What can we help you with.
I asked them how they knew my name and they told me I was on their Best Customer list and they knew all about me.

I told them what had happened in the store that night and they were not happy at all.

That Manager was moved to another store and put as a Salesman not a Manager with in a week.

I received (2) calls from the Corporate Office after that to apologize for the way I was Treated.
They told me that (3) of the Salesman that night that were listing to us talk about Black Powder had called to lit Corporate know what they witnessed that night.

Turners sold out to a bigger POS Corporation and forgot about all of their Customer Service.
They just got the Corporate Attitude like the big ones do.
And that is when they refused to service their Customers unless they could get the big bucks off of them.

They lost a lot of good customers but they were replaced by the Gang Bangers and uninformed.

I have not purchased a Firearm since my last Custom Order from Turnbull and that was when Obummer was in his first term.
I ran out of Disposable funds like so many during his occupancy.

Several years back I went online looking for a Browning Citori White Lightning 20 GA and fround that there was one at my local (40 miles away) Ass pro shop. I get down these, take a number then after waiting half hour there bouts some silly bitch working the gun counter tells me it's not in stock. I says really? Let's talk to your manager. He goes in the back and brings out my Citori. Most of these fuqks are worthless.

It's not just cabelas

Same here. And I hate it! As a born and raised Nebraskan Cabela's holds a special place to me. It breaks my heart to see what happened to that once great company.

Stopped at that Sidney, Nebraska store about 30 years ago while headed to a deer hunt in SD. Great place at that time, and long before TX ever had one. Still have a Cabela’s Windstopper wool coat I bought there in their old Treebark Camo pattern. Made when Cabela’s products were well worth the money. It still gets used when it’s really cold here.
Also stopped at the great First Stop Gun Shop in Rapid City on that same trip.

I don’t understand why any employer allows employees to carry and use their cell phones while on the clock. Absolutely zero reason to allow this.

As we all know, when BPS bought Cabela's, it went down hill.
Now it is one of the last places I go to shop

This is every day at the local Bass Pro...I hate the damn place.

Have a Cabelas Outpost a mile from the house. It is used for the last minute needs only. Gave up the Cabelas card and points when Bass Pro bought them. Points were far less than what I can earn elsewhere. They have their place, I just prefer to look elsewhere

Scheels.

It is extremely hard to get intelligent employees nowadays, and real hard to find some that will be nice to customers. You are an interruption in their day.

My LGS employs one of the rudest people Ive ever had the displeasure of dealing with. The kid that owns the place is blue ribbon top shelf but why he keeps the bicycle guy on staff I have no idea. Thinks he knows everything, that everyone else is dumb, and that coming back 2-3 times to pick up a gun/powder/bullets is just the thing everyone needs in their life.

LMAO at your story, but glad you got your gun.