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Their prices aren't always high, I bought a Tikka T3 lite in 243 for $450 at Cabelas a couple of years back. Most other places had them for $529.

Spot

I agree spot, I usually go there becasue of the low prices on new guns. There Tikka's were 599, but they looked beautiful.

SS

Wolfchief,

The Cabela's I have been in have always had very fair prices on all their used stuff. Not a great deal, and not a rip-off, just fair. Sorry to hear the Dundee store is putting the screws to everybody. St. Charles? The Kane County gun show? Been there many times, always loved that show.

SS Freak,

In hindsight, if you insist the guns were that bad, I really have no reason to not believe you other than it sounds VERY strange.

Where are they storing these things, the Alaskan coast? If you opened six "brand new" rifles and they all looked as bad as you describe, why would you not speak to the store manager? Rust? Dude, if ANY gun store brought me six rifles with rust on em', I would have to point that out to the owner/store manager at a minimum.


Travis

Unless they are sprinkling paprika on their rifles for fun before they sell them, then that would be my best guess. It came off with some Breakfree and Rem-oil. Still, that and the experience as a whole is enough to push me away from Cabelas.

SS

My first question as well!

Nope. For this mathematician it's 66% higher than market, or 166% of market price.

mathman

I got one for you mathman, what is 47 / 47. Let me know when you finish the calculations.

I'm not familiar with the use of the percent symbol as an operator.

What percent symbol? If you havent noticed, most all of my posts are edited. I am not much of an editor.

SS freak, I think you may be a little more picky than the average gun buyer, but again, I have no reason to doubt what you say is true.

This is courtesy of northern dave and I believe it sums up my feeling on buying/selling.


Cinder Blocks

I don't think this guy would let you clean the rifles while you think about buying.

Travis

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Now that is some funny stuff right there.

Good work mathman :), I feel like a piece of [bleep] sitting here responding to my own thread this much. I'm off to do some work (I think I have more important things to do today.) I'll be back to check in on the [bleep] I created later.

SS

Kimber7man

That's what it takes! Just a note.......most of my most tempermental, sour sellers were male......as was the gun counter fella... Rudeness is co-ed!

Doegirl

YUP....

Great service usually yields great tips!

Asking "Sales" questions to explore those needs is sales 201.
Most don't have it and will never get it.

Doc

YUP....

Great service usually yields great tips!


HA HA HA HA!

Gota refill the coffee that I just spilled!

Mathman: That's what I said...166% of the market(asking) price. It's one thing to buy a standard gun at Cabela's that every other gun store has one of...they may BE competitive on those; most of what I'm looking for are older collectible Colts, Brownings and Winchesters. For those of you in the market for one of them, just look at Cabela's website, examine the photos..(ie, is your 99% condition the same as theirs?)and then check their asking prices which are just flat too damn high !!I know; I've looked and compared. End of story as far as I'n concerned.

While Cabela's Gun Library is great to look at the prices there are very high as compared to other sources.

The Cablela's in Hartford, CT just opened recently and I have been there quite a bit for the fun. For some reason they got in about 7 M61 Winchesters. This is the smooth looking tube fed .22 pump. I happen to have one as my #1 hunting 22.

They priced them from $1,900.00 down to $895.00 in the 'Library'. I went back a number of times and indeed the tags stayed. I also commented to a clerk there and he said that "they came in that way".

A week or so later I was up there again and I found a M61 on the floors gun rack. It was not 'fine' as it had been scratched up some but it was intact. The price on it was about $595. Still way high for that gun but......

I carried that gun into the 'Library' and asked the clerk there "What will you pay me for this gun?" He could see it had a Cabela's tag on it but he could not read the tag. He answered "Half of what it says on the tag"!

I visited the same store in Lacey and had a salesman tell me he never heard of the .17HM2. I said it was derived from the .22LR, like the .17HMR was derived from the .22Magnum.

Absolute blank stare. Then he said, "Well they're both .17 caliber."

I know there are hundreds of details in pistols and rifles, but most of these guys behind the counter aren't even trying. They weren't hired for gun knowledge, apparently.