Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire How many of you , got the Cabala's 50 year

I receive Cabela's hardbound "collectable" (yeah right...EVERYTHING is collectable if your decendents hang onto it for a century or two) catalogue every year. I recently carted all of them down to a used bookstore I frequent, where I learned that they actually possess some modest value. The proprietor paid me 50 cents per catalogue. Not much, but it beats a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. Moreover, I'm actually recycling them, since some patron of the used book store will apparently buy them (for whatever reason).

I think I have one, but have not opened the package yet.

Sitting on the end table.

Send them all to me. I need to do some bullet testing and my one copy won't cut it.

Got mine... I was keeping them for a while but now I get at least two books a year

Gave mine to my friend's two young sons. The younger one was thrilled and couldn't put it away on a fishing trip.

Actually, according to Cabelas, advertisers foot the bill for all those catalogs. I agree with the tree-killing observation- after many months of trying, I finally got the endless flow of catalogs to my mailbox stopped.

I rarely order anything from them anymore, and when I do, it is online. They are not quite such a good deal here in Colorado, as they are now charging sales tax because they have a store in the state. That, and a somewhat unpleasant experience with their Outdoor Adventures group last year, has left me kinda lukewarm on Cabelas.

I like getting catalogs. I like looking at them and seeing all of the crap I don't need or want and finding the things I think are cool and might want sometime.

Ernie

I got mine, haven't opened it yet. Seems like I get two of the hardbound books a year. I use the old ones for pistol targets. They will stop a .45ACP.

I got it last week. When I have a need, I'll open it and start sniffing.

I rather just have one of the 50th year #1's in .30-40 Krag

Yeah. I got another one too. They're interesting to leaf through and dream, but when I need something, I go to the net for it --- or once in awhile actually to a brick and mortar location.

I go to Cabelas first if they don't have it I go elsewhere.

Me too. I love the place.

I daresomebody to buy one of those 50 year anniversary leupolds they are pimping and post a picture of it...ugliest thimgs i have seen in a while

I too get two hard backs each year. Hardly thumb through them except to look to see what's new. Once the new book arrives, I take the old one to work and put it in the boys room for my fellow employees to have for reading while sitting on the throne.

They do make a good burn in the campfire pit.

They are (in 50 years they'll be worth maybe three to five bucks apiece)!;)

I heard that too, but as they have sent me duplicates of every hardbound book they put out for many years, at some point I couldn't justify the room they were taking up, and chucked the lot at once, except the first one I ever got. There must have been 50 pounds of them I tossed...

Now that theres a cabelas 4 miles down the road, youd think theyed stop sending catalogs to me. I dont order, I go in the store. Now I get the catalogs and weekly flyer, monthly flyer, and a seasonal flyer of in store specials.

Man me too. I get catalogs from all kinds of places. Plants, fireworks, tools in about 5 specialties, guns, knives, razors, 3 different cigar catalogs, reloading equipment. Keeps me in reading material between visits to the library. I do almost all of my gift shopping online. Just got my wife a new laptop for her birthday on the 6th.